SVP, Head of AI Architecture
Boston, North Carolina, United States of America
Full Time
3 days ago
$185,000 - $400,000 USD
No Visa Sponsorship
Key skills
AWSCloudCAIArtificial IntelligenceMLGenerative AIOpenAIClaudeGeminiLlamaRAGLangChainAgenticMLOpsLangGraphSnowflakeAgileLeadershipPrototypingCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Define the strategic vision and roadmap for AI architecture practice across the enterprise, identifying high-impact opportunities for AI adoption
- Lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and secure AI architectures, and integration with existing IT infrastructure
- Serve as the top technical leader for AI architecture, guiding the selection of appropriate platforms, frameworks, and cloud technologies
- Build, lead, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of Architects fostering a culture of innovation and best practices
- Collaborate with architects from various functional domains, executive leadership, engineers, security specialists, and business stakeholders to provide direction for AI solutions and articulate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical audiences
- Stay abreast of emerging AI advancements, such as Generative AI, agentic workflows, and drive innovation through prototyping and validating new technologies.
Requirements
- A Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related STEM field is required
- 15 + years of general experience
- 10+ years of experience in AI/ML, data science, or software architecture, with proven experience in deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions into production environments
- Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts, algorithms, frameworks, and programming languages
- Experience with cloud computing and MLOps tools is essential
- Proven expertise in LLMs (OpenAI, LLaMA, Claude, Gemini), RAG, agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph), fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT), and prompt management
- Strong understanding of security implications related to AI/ML systems (e.g., data privacy, model poisoning, adversarial attacks)
- Familiarity with various Hyperscaler tools and services is a plus
- Ability to drive organizational change by embedding AI/ML architecture practices directly into core technology delivery teams
- Experience with major cloud platforms such as Snowflake and AWS (or other public cloud)
- Strong executive communication & leadership presence, engaging with executive leadership (C-Suite) are required to frequently participate in core initiatives and has broad exposure to executive leadership
- Consistent record of operations collaboration and delivery with the ability to build key relationships and influence partners on enterprise objectives
- Ability to challenge the status quo and facilitate the exchange and creation of ideas to address business challenges and improve performance
- Excellent talent skills and agile operating model experience with ability to develop impactful teams by setting clear goals and holding self and others accountable to standards of excellence.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
Benefits
- comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
- market-leading retirement
- generous paid time off and parental leave
- charitable giving employee match program
- educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career