Director AI Architecture (Dallas)

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report , we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

JOB SUMMARY
Provides guidance on enterprise adoption and development of new AI solutions. Understands the role of IT as a stakeholder and enabler within the governance and oversight processes and committees across the institution. Advises leadership on new and emerging AI technologies that support the mission of UT Southwestern Medical Center.

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Required

• Education
  Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, AI, Computer Science, or a related field

• Experience
  10+ years of experience in data, AI, and ML, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-level AI solutions
  Experience with AI techniques such as natural-language processing, computer vision, deep learning tools (such as PyTorch or TensorFlow), and libraries (such as GitHub or HuggingFace)
  Advanced understanding of Generative AI architectures
  Experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
  Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and their integration with AI models and RAG systems
  Familiarity with Azure cloud services and other cloud-based AI deployment platforms
  Experience with data science and ML operations, including data pipelines, model training, and CI/CD processes
  Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks for capturing, maintaining, and aligning AI solution architectures with broader enterprise architecture standards and business objectives

Preferred

• Experience
  Experience in healthcare, research, or academic institutions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Work requires knowledge of data, data science and how D&A can be used to support business decision making
• Work requires knowledge of data architecture, data management and the overlap with privacy, security and compliance.
• Work requires the ability to work with internal and external individuals from different disciplines and different levels of training.
• Work requires self-motivation with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Work requires strong organizational, technical and communication skills.
• Work requires flexibility and adaptability in dynamic environment.
• Work requires a good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies
• Work requires ability to develop and deliver presentations to relevant stakeholders and technical audiences
• Work requires ability to identify and prioritize AI opportunities, develop and deploy AI solutions, and build and manage a team of AI experts.
• Work requires knowledge of consumption-based models driven by processing needs and model or feature performance.

JOB DUTIES

• Must understand existing enterprise technologies and their standard applications, as well as the application of new technologies, when needed. Build an AI portfolio of capabilities, products and services.
• Provide guidance on enterprise adoption of new AI solutions. Balance strategic, essential, and innovative proposals based on feasibility, resource availability, cost, funding, priority, and other factors.
• Support the delivery of AI solution architecture for a given initiative complying with enterprise reference architecture.
• Lead multi-disciplinary groups to define desired outcomes, and communicate effectively to appropriate design teams who conduct deeper assessments using business, technical, data, and application domain expertise.
• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives, and document all AI solution architecture design and analysis work
• Support the development and delivery of a data strategy for AI solution training, testing and deployment
• Create architectural designs to guide and contextualize AI solution development across products, services, projects and systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information
• Lead evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of AI solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies, based on enterprise business strategies, business capabilities, value streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Develop data management strategies for AI model development, training and deployment
• Understand the role of information technology as a stakeholder and enabler within the governance and oversight processes and committees across the institution.
• Participate in and demonstrate acumen for advisory, compliance and audit activities, including responsible AI best practices, bias detection, and adherence to regulatory or legislative requirements.
• Demonstrate proficiency in aggregation of use case, workload, performance, capacity, throughput, preciseness, availability, orchestration components, and other discreet considerations sufficient to reflect an informed view ready for design or implementation.
• Embrace a structure of demo, development, test, staging and production AI environments. Define expectations for vendors, programmers, users, and support personnel who interact in multiple personas and roles.
• Advise leadership and other stakeholders on configurations (implicit or explicit), guardrails, fitness, and limitations of AI technologies in a conversational manner tailored to healthcare, research, and academic aims.
• Work with cross-functional business and IT teams to ensure proper performance of developed or acquired assets.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, automation, and continuous improvement across IT and the business.
• Research and share emerging technologies, leading practices, and industry trends.
• Collaborate with business to identify appropriate solutions aligned with appropriate standards, use cases, and leading practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

PACT STATEMENT

The following is the acronym, PACT, and is fundamental to all non-clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:

• P-Problem Solving : Employees take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of customers, or managers. They show initiative in addressing areas of concern before they become problems.
• A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability : Employees exhibit ability to perform their job and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner reflecting a professional environment readily assuming obligations in a dependable and reliable manner.
• C-Communication, Contribution, and Collaboration : Who are our Customers? Anyone who requests our help, needs our work product, or receives our services. Employees focus on customer service with creative solutions while improving the customer experience through clear, courteous, and timely delivery and communication. Sharing ideas with others helps expand our contribution to department goals.
• T-Teamwork : Employees work to contribute to the department's success by supporting co-workers, promoting excellence in work product and customer service, and in maintaining a satisfying, caring environment for each other.

Salary
Salary Negotiable

SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT
Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired and to continue to be employed in the position.

EEO Statement
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic]]> <