
Director, AI Architecture & Platforms
YMCA of the USA
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $144,000 - $177,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and lead the enterprise AI architecture strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant adoption of generative AI and advanced analytics across the organization.
- Design and maintain reference architectures, standards, and patterns for AI solutions, including LLM-enabled applications and platform integrations.
- Provide architectural leadership for AI platforms built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including the use of managed services such as Amazon Bedrock.
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and integration of leading large language models and AI services, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft Copilot, ensuring appropriate use and performance.
- Partner with business, product, and technology leaders to identify, prioritize, and design high-value AI use cases aligned to strategic objectives.
- Establish and enforce AI governance frameworks, including policies, controls, and guardrails related to data usage, model risk, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
- Define and oversee AI cybersecurity architecture, addressing risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, model misuse, and emerging AI threat vectors.
- Provide architectural guidance for the development and integration of AI-enabled applications, ensuring solutions are production-ready, scalable, and maintainable.
- Enable AI lifecycle management practices, including experimentation, deployment, monitoring, optimization, and retirement of AI solutions.
- Collaborate with data, application development, security, legal, and compliance teams to ensure AI solutions align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher required in a relevant field such as Business, or related disciplines required
- Advanced degree strongly preferred
- 8-12 years of experience required
- Expert functional skills, advanced industry knowledge and experience, advanced managerial skills
- Manages multiple teams or functions
- Strategic and operational decision-making authority
- Highly complex tasks and managerial tasks
- Minimal supervision
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- defined benefit plan (retirement savings)
- defined contribution plan (403(b) plan)
- life and disability insurances
- technology stipend
- generous paid time off
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI architecturegenerative AIadvanced analyticslarge language modelsAI platformsAWSAI governance frameworksAI cybersecurity architectureAI lifecycle managementAI-enabled applications
Soft Skills
architectural leadershipstrategic decision-makingoperational decision-makingcollaborationteam managementcommunicationprioritizationproblem-solvingrisk managementcompliance