About Atlas

Atlas is a trusted leader in environmental and infrastructure consulting services; we provide services that enable communities to flourish and thrive. With a team of 3500 employees and offices throughout the US we combine local expertise and a network of relationships to deliver solutions to both public and private clients. Our services help improve the quality of life in the communities where we live and work. We always aim for smart safe and sustainable results. At Atlas we understand that our future is everyones responsibility and we create a better experience at every stage of a project.

Position Summary

The Enterprise AI Director is accountable for building and running Atlass enterprise AI program. This includes establishing responsible AI governance; selecting deploying and operating AI platforms and tools; delivering prioritized AI use cases with measurable business outcomes; and enabling safe adoption across business lines.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise AI strategy and portfolio

• Define and maintain an enterprise AI vision strategy and 1224 month roadmap aligned to Atlas business goals (growth margin safety quality and client experience).
• Lead use-case intake value sizing prioritization and sequencing across the enterprise; maintain a transparent portfolio with KPIs and financial impact tracking.
• Establish AI product patterns (e.g. knowledge assistants document automation reporting copilots) to accelerate repeatable delivery.

Responsible AI governance risk and compliance

• Operationalize an AI governance model for approvals exceptions and risk acceptance in partnership with ELT Legal Privacy HR and IT.
• Define policies and controls for acceptable use data handling model selection third-party AI and human-in-the-loop requirements.
• Implement model and solution risk assessments (privacy security bias explainability IP regulatory) and ensure audit-ready documentation.

Platform architecture and operations (AI/MLOps)

• Own the enterprise AI reference architecture (approved patterns for LLM apps RAG integrations and monitoring).
• Stand up and govern AI platform capabilities (identity/access data connectors model gateways logging evaluation monitoring and incident response).
• Partner with IT teams to ensure reliability scalability and cost controls for AI workloads and vendors.

Delivery and adoption enablement

• Lead cross-functional delivery teams to build test and deploy AI solutions into production with clear success criteria.
• Create training communications and playbooks to drive adoption; build an AI champions network across regions and business lines.
• Establish and track adoption metrics (active users usage frequency satisfaction time saved) and change management effectiveness.

Vendor contract and financial management

• Evaluate vendors negotiate contracts/SLAs and manage renewals in partnership with Procurement and Legal.
• Build and manage the AI budget (run vs. grow) including ROI tracking cost optimization and chargeback/showback where appropriate.
• Maintain a vendor risk program for AI tools including security reviews and ongoing monitoring.

Leadership and talent

• Build and lead a high-performing enterprise AI team (product engineering data governance) and/or a federated delivery model.
• Set standards for delivery quality documentation and engineering excellence; establish career paths and hiring plans as maturity increases.
• Foster a culture of responsible innovation: fast learning measurable value and disciplined risk management.

Governance & Decision Rights

The role is accountable for day-to-day AI decisions and is the escalation point for AI risk and delivery issues. The AI Governance Board provides executive oversight and resolves tradeoffs.

• Owns: enterprise AI roadmap platform/tooling recommendations use-case prioritization process delivery standards AI policy implementation and ongoing program KPIs.
• Decides: go/no-go for production deployments (within policy) approved architectural patterns evaluation and monitoring requirements and exception routing.
• Recommends to ELT: strategic investments budget major vendor selections changes to governance policy and enterprise rollout sequencing.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in technology leadership security data or digital transformation including 5 years leading high-performing teams and programs.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise platforms or products with measurable business outcomes (cost savings throughput quality or revenue).
• Working knowledge of modern AI concepts and enterprise patterns (LLMs prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation evaluation monitoring and model risk controls).
• Experience establishing governance and controls in regulated or risk-sensitive environments (privacy security compliance third-party risk).
• Strong executive communication skills; ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment across business lines.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA and/or advanced degree in a quantitative or engineering discipline.
• CISSP or equivalent security credential; ability to integrate AI delivery with strong security and privacy-by-design practices.
• Experience in AEC infrastructure engineering consulting or adjacent project-based professional services organizations.
• Hands-on exposure to major cloud AI ecosystems and enterprise identity/access controls.
• Familiarity with common responsible AI frameworks and standards (e.g. NIST AI Risk Management Framework; ISO/IEC 23894).

Core Competencies

• Enterprise leadership: builds coalitions sets direction drives accountability and manages change at scale.
• Program and product management: converts business needs into prioritized backlogs and repeatable delivery patterns.
• Risk-informed innovation: balances speed with controls; escalates issues early; maintains audit-ready evidence.
• Financial acumen: budgets value realization vendor management and cost optimization.
• Systems thinking: understands end-to-end processes data flows and integration points across the organization.

Success Measures (First 1218 Months)

• Governance operating model live: policies intake risk assessment approval workflow and enterprise-wide monitoring standards.
• AI platform in production with logging evaluation monitoring and access controls; clear reference architectures and reusable components.
• 36 high-value use cases deployed with measurable outcomes (e.g. hours saved cycle time reduced improved QA/QC improved proposal throughput).
• Adoption and enablement: training program launched; active user growth; positive satisfaction scores; strong business-line participation.
• Risk and compliance posture: no material AI-related security/privacy incidents; audit-ready documentation for deployed solutions.

What you can expect from us

The A-Team Experience is our employee program focused on helping our people thrive professionally personally and as part of a community. We trust our people to do great work and live fulfilling lives and we provide resources that care for our people both at work and in life:

• Health & Wellness: We offer medical dental and vision coverage with multiple plan options including no-cost employee-only medical coverage.

• Time Off & Family Support: We offer vacation time paid holidays sick & safety leave (SSL) and paid parental leave

• Retirement: We help employees plan for the future with a 401(k) and company match.

• Insurance: To provide protection and peace of mind we offer Life AD&D (Accidental Death & Dismemberment) and Disability insurance.

• Safety Program: We are committed to safety as part of our quality of life core value and we provide approved PPE at no cost and reimbursement for prescription safety glasses and protective footwear.

• Learning & Development: We provide clear career paths learning resources and development programs allowing you to see how you can grow and advance within the company. We offer internal certifications on specific skills and support external credentials through tuition reimbursement.

• Belonging: We support Employee Communities (ECs) voluntary employee-led groups that create connections belonging and shared purposes.

• Flexibility: May vary by project demands and regional workloads but we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to help employees manage their personal and professional responsibilities.

Our people and our culture are central to our work. Our values bring us together create a sense of belonging and give us purpose. They guide how we make decisions how we work as a team and how we serve our clients.

• Life: We enhance the quality of life. We value people and safety above all else.

• Heart: As our hallmark we act with compassion empathy and respect.

• Trust: We work together as partners doing what we say with full accountability.

• Mastery: Always striving for the highest quality greatness inspires our work.

About the Job

• Career Level: Director
• Employment Type: Full-time

EEO Statement

Atlas is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants without regard to race (including hairstyles hair texture hair type or hair length commonly or historically associated with race) ethnicity creed religion or religious creed color sex (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding and related medical conditions or requests for pregnancy disability leave and/or family care leave) gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizenship or immigration status primary language crime victim status criminal conviction history uniformed service member or veteran status marital status age genetic information disability or protected medical condition genetics political affiliation or activities or any other status protected under applicable federal state or local laws.

Notice to Third Party Agencies

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