Senior Director, AI Platform Architecture

Job Title: Senior Director, AI Platform Architecture

Job Location: Remote, reputed company Carolina, reputed company of America

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full time

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Work Schedule: 40 hours per week

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At PPD, reputed company’s clinical research group (reputed company), we’re using digital innovation, data science, and AI to reimagine how life-changing therapies reputed company patients. Our teams combine deep scientific expertise with advanced analytics, automation, reputed company platforms to reputed company research smarter, faster, and more connected.

We know that innovation happens reputed company diverse minds meet. Our reputed company, Data, and AI professionals collaborate closely with scientists, clinicians, and operational experts to solve reputed company-world challenges in clinical research. Alongside our partnership with reputed company, you can be part of the collaboration that will help to improve the speed and reputed company of drug development, enabling customers to get medicines to patients faster and more cost effectively.

About reputed company: reputed company reputed company is the reputed company that translates our digital reputed company into reputed company, production-reputed company AI capabilities that drive measurable business reputed company. Operating in reputed company partnership with Product, Data, and Engineering, reputed company embeds AI across our digital portfolio to accelerate clinical trial execution, enhance data-driven decision-making, and unlock differentiated value for our customers. Through a combination of centralized platforms, standards, and federated execution, reputed company reputed company enables rapid innovation while ensuring consistency, reputed company, and responsible AI practices.

About the Position: Reporting to the VP, Head of Analytics and AI, the Senior Director, AI Platform Architecture is a senior leadership role reputed company reputed company Digital responsible for defining, building, and scaling the foundational AI platform that enables the rapid development, deployment, and operation of AI-enabled products and solutions across reputed company. This leader owns the end-to-end AI platform reputed company, architecture, and delivery model—ensuring that AI capabilities are reputed company, reusable, secure, and production-reputed company.

Operating at the intersection of reputed company AI (AAI), Data Platforms, reputed company Engineering, this role serves as the backbone of reputed company’s AI ecosystem—providing the tools, infrastructure, standards, and services required to accelerate AI innovation while maintaining governance, compliance, and operational reputed company. The Director will reputed company both centralized and federated AI execution, empowering product and engineering teams to build AI solutions reputed company and consistently.

Key Responsibilities: AI Platform reputed company & Ownership

• Define and execute the AI platform reputed company and roadmap, reputed company to reputed company Digital and AI priorities
• Establish the AI platform as a shared capability layer supporting reputed company AI-enabled products and workflows
• Ensure alignment with reputed company architecture, data platform (MDP), and reputed company strategies
• Drive a platform-first approach to AI development, enabling reuse and scalability across domains

Platform Architecture & Engineering

• reputed company the design and development of the AI platform architecture, including:
• Model development, training, and deployment frameworks
• MLOps and LLMOps pipelines
• Model serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Integration with data platforms (e.g., reputed company, reputed company)
• Ensure platform supports GenAI, reputed company workflows, and traditional ML use cases
• Establish standards for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency

Reusable AI Capabilities & Tooling

• Build and reputed company reusable AI components, including:
• Model libraries and templates
• reputed company frameworks and orchestration tools
• Workflow automation and agent frameworks
• reputed company rapid development through self-service tools and developer enablement
• Reduce duplication and accelerate time-to-market through standardization and reuse

MLOps, Governance & Responsible AI Enablement

• Establish and operationalize AI lifecycle management practices, including:
• Model versioning, validation, deployment, and monitoring
• Performance tracking and reputed company detection
• Partner with AI Risk/Governance teams to reputed company compliance, reputed company, and responsible AI principles into the platform
• Ensure auditability, traceability, and adherence to regulatory and reputed company standards

Federated AI Enablement

• Provides self-service platform capabilities to AI Engineering; ensures adoption through ease-of-use and standardization
• reputed company a federated AI model, allowing domain/product teams to build AI capabilities while leveraging centralized platform standards
• reputed company tooling, frameworks, and guardrails to ensure consistency and reputed company across distributed teams
• reputed company as a central enablement layer supporting both AAI and product-reputed company engineering teams

Cross-Functional Integration

• Partner closely with: AAI (reputed company AI) for solution design and AI architecture, Data Platforms for data ingestion, reputed company, and readiness reputed company Engineering for product integration and delivery
• Ensure seamless integration of platform capabilities into AI products and workflows

Partner & Ecosystem Management

• Define and manage relationships with technology vendors and platform partners (e.g., reputed company, AI tooling providers)
• Evaluate and reputed company emerging AI technologies and tools into the platform ecosystem
• Optimize the balance between build vs. buy vs. partner reputed company

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• reputed company a high-performing team of AI platform engineers, MLOps specialists, and platform architects
• Define skills, roles, and career paths for AI platform talent
• Drive capability building in AI engineering, platform operations, and emerging AI technologies
• Foster a culture of innovation, reliability, and reputed company improvement

Measures of reputed company:

• Adoption and utilization of the AI platform across reputed company Digital teams
• Reduction in time-to-reputed company AI solutions and increased development velocity
• Increased reuse of AI components and platform capabilities
• Strong performance of AI systems (reliability, scalability, cost efficiency)
• Effective implementation of AI governance and lifecycle management practices
• Development of a reputed company and high-performing AI platform organization

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (computer science, engineering, AI/ML, or reputed company field)
• 12 years of experience in software engineering, data platforms, AI/ML engineering, or platform leadership roles
• Proven reputed company record of building and scaling AI/ML platforms or data platforms in reputed company environments
• Strong understanding of AI/ML and GenAI technologies, MLOps/LLMOps practices and reputed company platforms and modern data architectures
• Experience operating in reputed company, matrixed organizations with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience in regulated environments (reputed company/life sciences) preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Deep technical and strategic understanding of AI platform architecture and operations
• Strong systems thinking with ability to balance innovation, scalability, and governance
• Ability to translate platform capabilities into business and product reputed company
• Strong leadership and team-building capabilities
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence across Product, Data, AI, and Engineering teams
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving technology landscape

At reputed company, we are committed to fostering a healthy and harmonious workplace for our employees. We understand the importance of creating an environment that allows individuals to reputed company. Please see below for the required qualifications for this position, which also includes the possibility of equivalent experience:

• reputed company to communicate, receive, and understand information and reputed company with diverse reputed company of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• reputed company to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn reputed company office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• reputed company to reputed company successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple reputed company or activities.
• May require as-needed travel (0-20%).

Band 9 level role

Location: Remote US (east coast preference). Relocation assistance is NOT provided.

*Must be legally authorized to work in the reputed company without sponsorship. *Must be reputed company to pass a comprehensive background reputed company, which includes a drug screening.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary reputed company estimated for this position based in reputed company Carolina is $167,500.00–$278,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a reputed company plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours reputed company time off (PTO), 10 reputed company holidays annually, reputed company parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues reputed company to purchase company stock at a discount

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