Executive Director, AI Engineering Greater Hartford, CT Area

The Company is seeking an Executive Director of AI Engineering to set the technical strategy and lead the development, governance, and scaling of AI across a large enterprise. The role will lead AI engineers and establish the engineering foundation, reusable architectures, agentic AI framework, AI software development lifecycle, and operating model. Responsibilities include delivering production AI solutions, advising on technology choices, embedding privacy, security, ethical, and regulatory controls, and measuring solution quality, reliability, cost, adoption, and business impact. The Executive Director will also build and mentor technical teams, guide senior leaders on investment and design decisions, and raise AI capabilities across the organization. Candidates should have at least 15 years of experience in software engineering, data, or AI/ML, including leadership of enterprise AI engineering or advanced analytics teams, and hands-on experience designing and shipping production AI solutions. Required expertise includes generative AI and agentic systems, orchestration, retrieval and grounding, evaluation, guardrails, observability, cloud-native architecture, data pipelines, and MLOps or LLMOps. Applicants should have experience establishing AI engineering practices across teams, meeting ethical, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements, and influencing executives and technical stakeholders. A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, information systems, or a related quantitative field—or equivalent experience and qualifications—is required; a graduate degree is preferred.

Hiring Company

CVS Health