YMCA of the USA

Director, AI Architecture & Platforms

YMCA of the USA

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: IllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $144,000 - $177,000 per year

Job Level

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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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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