Associate Director, AI Engineering Manager

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Job Description

As Associate Director BR Data & Digital Software & Workflows AI Engineering Manager you will lead a team of internal and external AI engineers to deliver initiativealigned productiongrade AI solutions (agents models) ensuring reliable scalable secure and highquality outcomes. The role ensures a strong execution discipline modern MLOps and AgentOps practices and alignment with enterprise architecture security compliance and AI governance while building a highperforming team that rapidly delivers measurable business value.

• Build lead and develop a highperforming team of internal and external AI engineers by setting clear priorities cultivating skills and ensuring consistent excellence in building scaling releasing and sustaining AI solutions including longterm quality and operational ownership.

• Partner closely across BR Data & Digital as well as corporate functions to collaborate and align AI engineering execution with organizational objectives and initiative timelines.

• Translate usecase software and initiative requirements into robust AI technical designs and implementation plans including integration and embedding of AI solutions into existing software applications and workflows.

• Manage effective predictable and high-quality engineering delivery of AI solutions and components across timebound initiatives ensuring alignment with enterprise platforms architectural standards compliance and AI governance requirements.

• Oversee deployment monitoring and lifecycle management of AI solutions including performance optimization cost optimization and operational readiness.

• Foster a team before self culture rooted in urgency clarity trust and shared ownership.

You are passionate about and experienced in leading and inspiring people and helping them reach their potential. You have an intrinsic drive to transform scientific research with AI by overseeing and elevating AI solution delivery excellence for a broad portfolio. You thrive on working collaboratively in a complex life science environment. You have:

• Expertise and experience in people leadership with demonstrated ability to set direction align teams develop talent and continuously improve productivity.

• Excellent skills in communicating and translating complex AI technical concepts for varied audiences.

• Proven experience in building strong relationships across organizational and divisional boundaries.

• Deep expertise in architecting and implementing AI agents and models using modern engineering practices and in integrating AI components into production applications and workflows.

• Experience with deployment monitoring automation and lifecycle practices for AI solutions including performance optimization cost management and operational readiness as well as governance and compliance.

In addition you bring many of the following capabilities and the drive to grow into the rest:

• Ability to create cultures of empowerment learning and mutual support.

• Creativity and courage to challenge the status quo encourage innovation and take smart risks.

Skills Desired