AVP, AI Engineering & Delivery

About the role

When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves . We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. AI Engineering & Delivery Leadership - Lead enterprise AI engineering and delivery initiatives across Vizient, including AI-powered applications, LLM-enabled workflows, agentic orchestration solutions, AI-enabled automation capabilities, and API/platform integrations. - O perationalization practices for enterprise AI solutions. - Establish and mature enterprise AI engineering and delivery capabilities, including AI-native development practices, AI SDLC frameworks, scalable operational models, observability, runtime reliability, deployment standards, and reusable engineering accelerators that enable the industrialization of AI solutions across the enterprise. - Help evolve enterprise engineering and delivery practices to support AI enabled workflows, automation patterns, modern software delivery models, and continuously improving operational maturity. - Lead technical reviews and provide oversight for enterprise AI initiatives across design, build, validation, deployment, monitoring, optimization, and production support activities. AI Operations, Reliability & Platform Engineering - Lead AIOps and LLMOps operational capabilities, including runtime observability, drift detection, monitoring, incident management, prompt lifecycle management, evaluation frameworks, operational telemetry, output reliability, and AI-specific operational risk management. - Drive foundational platform capabilities, including reusable AI engineering patterns, implementation playbooks, shared services, evaluation pipelines, templates, internal libraries, and engineering accelerators that improve delivery consistency, scalability, enterprise-wide AI delivery maturity, and long-term operational efficiency. - Promote reusable engineering standards, scalable delivery practices, and shared implementation patterns that reduce per-use-case engineering effort and improve operational efficiency across the enterprise. Governance, Risk & Responsible AI - Partner with AI Governance, Quality Engineering, Automation, and AI Delivery Lifecycle teams to support enterprise AI lifecycle management, validation frameworks, governance processes, responsible AI practices, human oversight controls, operational safeguards, and secure operationalization of AI solutions. Portfolio, Delivery & Operational Scaling - Lead AI delivery portfolio management activities, including squad capacity planning, vendor and contractor management, forecasting, operational optimization, runtime efficiency, scalable delivery execution, knowledge transfer, and sustainable engineering operations. - Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate technical feasibility, scalability, operational readiness, engineering sustainability, and modernization opportunities for prioritized AI initiatives. - Support build-versus-buy evaluations, vendor assessments, platform selection activities, and enterprise engineering modernization initiatives. Leadership, Communication & Culture - Lead, mentor, and develop engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and contractor teams while fostering a high-performing, collaborative, continuously learning, and delivery-focused engineering culture. - Communicate technical concepts, delivery risks, operational updates, engineering tradeoffs, and strategic recommendations effectively to technical and executive stakeholders to support informed decision-making, enterprise alignment, and successful business adoption of AI capabilities. - Bring product judgment and strategic thinking to use-case intake - create and manage rigorous scoping and prioritization capability - Research and evaluate emerging AI engineering, automation, observability, orchestration, and operational technologies to support innovation and continuous improvement initiatives. Estimated Hiring Range: At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $156,500.00 to $290,100.00. This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, s