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
The Director of AI Architecture 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. 
 
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 

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.

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
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

 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.

EEO
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 information, citizenship status, or veteran status.