Director, AI Insights and Engineering

Director, AI Insights and Engineering

The Director of AI Insights and Engineering will drive innovation through AI/ML and LLM-powered solutions founded in a strong enterprise data foundation. This role is responsible for leveraging enterprise data streams for insight generation and generative AI applications. The ideal candidate will build and lead a technical team that designs and deploys AI solutions that provide actionable value to business stakeholders in pursuit of business goals within Cencora's ethical and responsible AI guidelines. Through collaboration across broader technical teams, this leader will transform insights into business value. This is a GDATS (IT) role and will report to the Senior Director of AI Platforms & Solutions within the broader Data, Analytics and AI domain at Cencora.

• Collaborate with the broader AI, Data & Analytics team and other key stakeholders to execute on a unified enterprise data and AI strategy that support business goals.

• Shape and prioritize a roadmap of AI initiatives to enable data consumption for AI/ML models, dashboards, chatbots, and other Data and AI products.

• Architect scalable, secure, and integrated data platforms and pipelines to embed AI and insight generation into enterprise systems and processes.

• Leverage platforms like Databricks and Cencora's GenIE framework to facilitate Generative and agent-powered insight engines to support and enhance business decision-making.

• Work with internal governance and responsible AI teams to implement robust AI governance frameworks ensuring compliance, accountability, and ethical AI practices.

• Accelerate innovation through AI/ML and LLM-powered solutions, driving automation, real-time decision-making, and operational leverage.

• Build and lead an AI team that fosters a high-performance, innovation-driven culture while mentoring on AI and data lifecycle best practices.

• Collaborate with business units and their IT partners to consult and deploy enterprise data and AI solutions.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).

• Experience:

• • 10+ years in data engineering, architecture, or enterprise data management.

  • 5+ years in leadership roles managing cross-functional data and AI initiatives.

  • Proven track record of enabling enterprise AI/ML/Insights initiatives at scale.

• Skills & Attributes:

• • Strong technical, process, and people leadership skills with experience managing technical teams.

  • Intellectual curiosity and a passion for leveraging AI and emerging technologies to transform organizations.

  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

  • Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills to engage both business and technical stakeholders; Able to craft and articulate a vision for their domain that resonates and persuades.

  • Strong collaborator who understands the organizational landscape and engages other teams accordingly and appropriately.

• Technical Expertise:

• • Experience with cloud platform configuration and development (Azure preferred, AWS, GCP)

  • Demonstrated expertise in modern data stacks (Vector databases, Databricks, Neo4j)

  • Strong knowledge of AI/ML tooling (Python, R, ML models, Azure AI Foundry) and MLOps

  • Grounded in data governance, compliance (HIPAA, GDPR), and ethical AI practices.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or another related field, or equivalent work experience
- Preferably 7+ years in Information Technology in progressive levels of responsibility and leadership
- High level understanding of several components of IT such as: Product Management, Technical Architecture, Business Analysis, Testing or Operations and Support.
- 3+ years of budgetary responsibility preferred
- Excellent written and verbal skills, including the ability to respond well under pressure

MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

- Strong leadership skills
- Self-motivated and self-directed
- Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate across organizations to optimize outcomes
- Demonstrates working knowledge of product management methodology
- Understanding of basic SAFe Agile principles and methodology
- Ability to prioritize work load and consistently meet commitments
- Ability to work across multiple groups within IT to ensure end to end performance
- Excellent interpersonal skills, must be comfortable working continually on a team with daily accountability for keeping commitments
- Excellent written and oral communication, listening and presentation skills
- In-depth knowledge of business operations
- Good organizational skills
- Ability to use good judgment in conveying status and problem escalation
- Provides coaching and mentoring to team members
- Knowledge of the cost basis for the service

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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