Head of AI Platforms Center of Excellence (f/m/d) 1

Our AI Platforms Center of Excellence is looking for YOU! We are Uniper AI Platforms Center of Excellence provides the foundation for developing, deploying, and integrating AI solutions through robust platforms, reusable frameworks, and governed APIs, ensuring that AI capabilities are consistently delivered, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture. By combining platform engineering, standardization, and enablement, the unit transforms AI from isolated use cases into a reusable, enterprise-wide capability that drives innovation, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making The Head of AI Platforms CoE is responsible for designing, building, and governing the enterprise AI platform landscape. This includes defining AI frameworks, enabling scalable model development and deployment, and managing APIs as a core integration layer. Your responsibilities Own the design, build, and operation of scalable, secure, and high-performing AI platforms enabling end-to-end AI lifecycle management. Define and govern reusable AI frameworks, development standards, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability. Establish and manage API strategies for AI services, enabling seamless, secure, and reusable integration into business applications. Ensure responsible and compliant AI usage through defined guardrails, security controls, and auditability. Lead the AI Center of Excellence, enabling teams through guidance, standards, and knowledge sharing to accelerate AI adoption. Drive adoption of emerging AI technologies and continuously enhance platforms, frameworks, and operating models. Partner with business, IT, and data stakeholders to align AI platform capabilities with enterprise needs and priorities. Execute parts of larger transformation programs (e.g., cloud adoption, ERP enhancements, cybersecurity improvements, automation initiatives, Agile/DevOps practices). Translate domain-level roadmaps into actionable team delivery plans, ensuring milestones, quality, and KPIs are met. Ensure disciplined execution through backlog management, delivery rhythm, and clear status communication. Own the day-to-day delivery and operation of defined applications, platforms, products, or services. Ensure service reliability, incident resolution, problem management, and continuous improvement based on data-driven insights. Coordinate with architecture, security, and other delivery teams to ensure alignment and dependency management. Manage and optimize team-level budgets, including resource planning, tooling costs, vendor and contractor assignments, and small-to-medium investment requests. Provide input to business cases and cost and benefit assessments for domain-level initiatives. Ensure team compliance with governance frameworks, cybersecurity requirements, risk processes, and audit-relevant controls. Maintain documentation, operational procedures, and evidence relevant for internal or external audits. Drive adoption of modern engineering and operational practices within the team, including Agile ways of working, DevOps practices and CI/CD, cloud-based delivery, automation and standardization, and ITSM/ITIL processes. Promote coding, testing, security, and operational excellence. Build high-performing teams through coaching, development plans, objective setting, and regular feedback. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning. Act as a trusted partner to L5 domain leads and L3 IT executives by providing transparent updates, risk escalation, and pragmatic solution options. Ensure constructive stakeholder engagement with business users, product owners, architects, security, and operations teams. Align team priorities with the domain roadmap and enterprise technology standards. Contribute insights to planning cycles, investment proposals, and capability development discussions. Support organizational change within your area, helping teams adapt to new processes, structures, and ways of working by translating direction from senior leaders into clear expectations and practical steps. Build strong relationships with key stakeholders (product owners, business managers, project leads, Works Council interfaces), ensuring consistent communication, expectation management, and early escalation of risks or dependencies. Coordinate the delivery of services, products, or workstreams, ensuring tasks are prioritized, allocated, and monitored effectively to meet time, budget, quality, and compliance requirements. Lead team leaders and specialists, providing day-to-day guidance, coaching, performance input, and support in building skills and career development. Support capability development within your team, identifying skill gaps, facilitating upskilling and knowledge sharing, and contributing to hiring and onboarding processes. Drive clear communication and engagement at the team level, running structured updates, supporting team cascades, and ensuring information flows smoothly between teams and senior leadership. Your profile Core Leadership Expectations Strong understanding of how technology enables Uniper’s value creation, commercial performance and operational resilience. Strong collaboration capability to co-create priorities with business peers and DT L2, L3 and L4 colleagues, ensuring shared direction and integrated execution. Full accountability for mission-critical processes and IT systems supporting all DT delivery units. Ability to contribute to a unified leadership team with a shared strategic vision, holding end-to-end accountability for digital products, platforms, and core IT services in an environment of accelerating technological change. Role-specific qualifications You hold an academic degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. You have 5–8+ years of professional experience in IT delivery, engineering, operations, or product environments. You have 2–4+ years of experience managing technical staff or team leads, typically with a span of control of 10–25 FTE. You bring the ability to collaborate proactively across adjacent teams and functions, resolving dependencies and blockers, and ensuring alignment with agreed architecture, security, and process standards. You bring a role-model mindset in embracing new technologies, continuously developing relevant capabilities, and enabling teams to innovate, learn, and adapt. You have demonstrated experience in encouraging agile behaviours and continuous improvement, helping teams apply iterative delivery practices, adopt new tools or processes, and identify efficiency and quality improvements. You bring a strong sense of ownership for team outcomes and the delivery of stable, high quality IT services. You have proven ability to ensure team activities contribute to business and technology objectives, tracking progress, supporting benefits realization, and maintaining alignment with L3 strategic direction. You communicate effectively in English (mandatory); additional languages such as German support collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders across Uniper. What we offer you At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment. Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas: Work-Life-Balance / New Normal: Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office) Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service Mobility: Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation) E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations Health offers: Flu vaccination Preventive health services Employee assistance program Company pension: Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching Trainings: Lifelong training Coaching Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted! Your contact If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: Hinesh Pankhania hinesh.pankhania@uniper.energy Attention! Please apply via the button in this portal. Application documents that reach us by post will not be returned and, like those we receive by e-mail, can unfortunately not be considered! As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.