Senior Director – Applied AI Architecture, Platform Infrastructure

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Senior AI architecture leader building GuideWell’s enterprise healthcare AI platforms and applied research capability. Establishing secure, scalable AI infrastructure and standards for regulated healthcare.

Responsibilities:

  • Establish GuideWell’s applied AI research function
  • Evaluate frontier AI developments in model capability, agentic AI, multimodal AI, and human-AI interaction
  • Translate AI developments into a prioritized roadmap of applied use cases across the health ecosystem
  • Build AI infrastructure and platform capabilities, including compute, MLOps/LLMOps, and model pipelines
  • Move AI solutions from prototypes into reliable, secure, production-grade enterprise operation
  • Stand up a developer platform and toolchain with self-service access to shared AI capabilities
  • Reduce duplicated infrastructure and shorten the path from idea to production
  • Define AI architecture and engineering standards for a regulated healthcare environment
  • Partner with the VP of Applied AI Engineering and Platform and senior stakeholders across architecture, infrastructure, data, security, legal/compliance, and the business
  • Design, staff, and establish the enterprise AI capability across research, infrastructure/platform engineering, developer platform, and architecture/strategy/standards
  • Recruit and lead an engineering organization while making early architecture and standards decisions
  • Sequence research and platform investments to support scalable AI delivery

Requirements:

  • Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience
  • 7+ years’ related work experience
  • 5+ years’ direct supervisory/management experience
  • Significant experience leading AI/ML platform, infrastructure, or applied AI engineering organizations at enterprise scale
  • Hands-on architecture experience
  • Experience architecting and operating agentic AI platforms in production, including orchestration/agent frameworks, tool-access and identity controls, evaluation gates, observability, and deployment pipelines
  • Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar cloud platforms
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, container/serverless technologies, CI/CD, and multi-region resilience
  • Experience establishing evaluation-first LLMOps practices, including regression testing, tracing, and human-in-the-loop oversight
  • Experience building and leading engineering organizations from the ground up across distributed or global delivery models
  • Strong executive communication and credibility with senior technical and business stakeholders
  • Ability to travel to multiple locations for meetings, events, and conferences
  • Preferred: experience in regulated or compliance-sensitive industries such as healthcare or financial services
  • Preferred: experience translating HIPAA or SOX requirements into engineering standards
  • Preferred: experience redesigning business or clinical workflows as agent-driven processes
  • Preferred: experience building reusable AI platform components
  • Preferred: experience setting technical direction on emerging agentic AI and orchestration techniques
  • Preferred: background spanning hands-on technical architecture and organizational leadership
  • Preferred: exposure to health plans, providers, clinical operations, or government health care programs

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability programs
  • Leave programs to support personal circumstances
  • Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
  • Paid time off
  • Volunteer time off
  • 10 holidays
  • 2 well-being days
  • Additional voluntary benefits
  • Comprehensive wellness program
  • Incentive or commission compensation opportunities
  • Annual reviews with pay-for-performance considerations for base pay increases