Steven Cox

Enterprise Data, AI & Platform Architecture Leader

I lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of secure AWS-native platforms that support enterprise data, analytics, and AI adoption in complex and regulated environments.

My work spans enterprise data platforms, generative AI platforms, cloud architecture, architecture-led delivery, and reusable platform development, with responsibility across both strategic direction and execution.

Enterprise data, analytics, and AI platform strategy
AWS-native architecture, orchestration, and modernization
Architecture ownership tied directly to delivery accountability
Regulated environment platform design and scaling

Executive Summary

My career has progressed from hands-on engineering and integration delivery into enterprise platform architecture and large-scale program leadership. As that scope expanded, so did my ownership: defining target-state architecture, establishing reusable patterns and frameworks, and leading organizations responsible for building durable platform capabilities rather than one-off technical solutions.

My leadership focus sits at the intersection of enterprise data platforms, generative AI platforms, AWS cloud architecture, and architecture-led transformation. I work across platform roadmap, architecture direction, operating model design, cross-functional delivery coordination, governance alignment, migration planning, and stakeholder engagement. The common thread in my work is building governed, reusable capabilities that can scale across business domains, engineering teams, and evolving enterprise needs.

Leadership Scope

Led teams ranging from focused 3 to 15 person delivery structures in earlier roles to broader platform and program organizations of approximately 35, 55, and 80 resources in later roles.

Operating Style

Combines architecture ownership with delivery accountability, working across strategy, detailed design, platform operations, migration, demand intake, governance alignment, and stakeholder engagement.

Platform Focus

Focused on secure, modular AWS-native platforms that support data, analytics, BI, ML, generative AI, and the operational foundations required for broader AI adoption.

Core Expertise

Enterprise Data Platform Strategy
Generative AI Platform Architecture
AWS Cloud & Platform Architecture
Architecture-Led Delivery
Data Governance & AI Readiness
Reusable Frameworks & Accelerators
Regulated Environment Delivery
Cross-Functional Program Leadership

Selected Leadership Experience

Selected examples that best reflect my leadership across enterprise data, AI, platform architecture, and architecture-led delivery.

Recent leadership phase

Enterprise Generative AI Platform Architect & Delivery Lead

Designed and led delivery of an enterprise generative AI platform in a regulated environment. Owned platform strategy, end-to-end architecture, AI orchestration, reusable component design, enterprise integrations, secure platform patterns, delivery leadership, business process discovery, and scaling plans.

Established a platform-based approach to generative AI adoption rather than a collection of point solutions.
Defined secure, governed patterns suitable for regulated document and business process automation.
Led architecture and execution across multiple workstreams spanning engineering, governance, business process alignment, and change adoption.
Created reusable orchestration and component patterns to support scale, consistency, and continued platform evolution.

Senior platform leadership phase

Data & Analytics Platform Architect & Delivery Lead

Served as lead technology architect and delivery lead for an enterprise data and analytics platform, owning roadmap, target-state architecture, and coordinated execution across Platform, Demand, Operations, Migration, and Flex Capacity Engineering.

Led a program structure of approximately 80 resources while interfacing with enterprise governance and domain engineering stakeholders.
Drove platform capabilities spanning ingestion, medallion architecture, data quality, metadata cataloging, governance integration, BI and ML enablement, and AI readiness.
Connected platform architecture to operating model needs including migration planning, service operations, demand intake, and ongoing platform scaling.
Positioned the platform as a governed foundation for enterprise analytics and broader AI enablement rather than a narrow reporting solution.

Platform product phase

Cloud Data Platform Productization & Accelerator Leadership

Helped create and scale reusable cloud-native platform assets and accelerators for AWS-based data and analytics solutions, shifting work from project-by-project delivery toward repeatable enterprise capabilities and internal productization.

Contributed to modular platform assets designed to accelerate enterprise data and analytics delivery with stronger consistency, governance, and repeatability.
Supported offering development that influenced large sales opportunities and broader revenue pipeline activity.
Led international product development efforts and broader team structures, including one internal product team of approximately 55 people.
Strengthened platform thinking around reusable components, deployment patterns, and delivery accelerators for AWS-native solutions.

Growth phase

Enterprise Data Lake & Analytics Architecture Leadership

Took on broader technical architect and delivery lead responsibilities across enterprise data lake and analytics programs, owning architecture decisions while maintaining delivery accountability across multiple initiatives.

Defined standards, reference patterns, and reusable frameworks for cloud-native data and integration solutions.
Served as solution architect, technical architect, and delivery lead depending on program needs, bridging strategy and execution.
Led teams commonly in the 6 to 15 person range while coordinating with adjacent stakeholders across design, build, testing, and deployment.
Expanded scope from solution delivery into platform thinking, governance, and modernization architecture.

Cross-industry modernization breadth

AWS-Native Cloud, Integration & Modernization Leadership

Built early leadership experience across cloud-native application delivery, microservices, AWS-based data and integration solutions, and end-to-end execution from planning through deployment, forming the foundation for later platform and program leadership roles.

Led and contributed to modern cloud delivery efforts spanning application architecture, integration, data movement, and deployment automation.
Established early reusable microservices and integration patterns that improved consistency across delivery efforts.
Worked across the full lifecycle including analysis, design, build, test, deployment, and stakeholder coordination.
Led smaller teams typically in the 3 to 8 person range while maintaining strong hands-on technical credibility.

Career Foundation

This earlier experience is important because it explains the depth behind the leadership profile. The platform and delivery perspective was built on direct engineering, integration, and architecture work.

Engineering to Architecture Progression

Started in hands-on software engineering and research-oriented technical roles, then moved into cloud-native delivery, microservices, AWS-based integration, and enterprise data solution design.

Delivery Depth

Worked directly across planning, analysis, architecture, build, test, deployment, and production readiness, which continues to shape a delivery-accountable leadership style.

Scale Expansion

Progressed from smaller delivery teams into broader architecture and platform leadership, then into multi-pod and multi-workstream organizations serving enterprise users at larger scale.

Credentials

Certifications and technical depth support the leadership profile, but they are secondary to platform ownership, architecture judgment, and delivery execution.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Certification aligned to enterprise cloud architecture, platform design, and modernization leadership.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Certification reinforcing strong AWS-native design foundations across application, data, and platform patterns.

Technical Foundation

Hands-on background across cloud-native applications, data platforms, orchestration, integration, and delivery provides practical depth behind strategic platform decisions.

Contact

Open to conversations about enterprise data platform strategy, AI platform architecture, AWS modernization, architecture-led delivery, and senior technology leadership opportunities.