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Trace3

Senior Director, AI Platforms

AI summary of the role

Senior technical leader building and operating Trace3's AI Platforms practice within the Office of the CTO.

What you’ll do

  • Build, hire, coach, and retain a team of presales solutions architects covering AI infrastructure, HPC, orchestration, observability, and AI-specific cybersecurity.
  • Serve as primary technical architect for Trace3's largest AI infrastructure opportunities including greenfield AI factory builds, training/inference clusters, and edge AI deployments.
  • Own the technical roadmap, funding case, and day-to-day operation of Trace3's AI Labs environments, including benchmarking, demos, and POC frameworks.
  • Serve as senior Trace3 technical point of contact for NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Super Micro, Lenovo, and HPE, aligning portfolio with OEM roadmaps and partner programs.

What you’ll bring

  • 12+ years progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure with 5+ years hands-on designing/implementing AI, ML, or HPC environments at production scale.
  • Demonstrated delivery on multi-rack, GPU-dense factory deployments using at least two of: NVIDIA DGX/HGX, Cisco AI infrastructure, Dell PowerEdge XE, Super Micro, Lenovo ThinkSystem, HPE ProLiant Compute DL or Cray.
  • Deep technical fluency in GPU compute, high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RoCE, Spectrum-X), parallel/scale-out file systems (VAST, WEKA, DDN, Pure, NetApp ONTAP AI), and AI-optimized cooling/power design.
  • 5+ years people leadership with direct accountability for building and growing technical presales or architecture teams.

Technologies

GPU compute · InfiniBand · Spectrum-X · Kubernetes · Slurm · Run:ai · NVIDIA DGX · VAST · WEKA · DDN

About Trace3

IT transformation consultancy helping enterprise, commercial, and public-sector clients adopt AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity, managed services, and infrastructure platforms.

Acquired · 1000–2000 people

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weather” by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials, struggles, and failures – not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us. JOB SUMMARY: The Sr Director, AI Platforms is the senior technical leader accountable for building and operating Trace3's AI Platforms practice within the Infrastructure & Operations Business Unit of the Office of the CTO. This role combines deep, hands-on expertise in full-stack AI factory design with leadership of a high-performing technical presales team. The Sr Director owns the architecture and deal-shaping of multi-million dollar AI infrastructure opportunities spanning GPU compute, high-performance networking, scale-out storage, and the surrounding software stack, and is directly accountable for the operation of Trace3's AI Labs. As a senior practice leader and
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