UPMC · 1 day ago
Senior AI Architect, IT
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expUPMC is a healthcare provider seeking a Senior AI Architect to align AI strategy with business strategy across multiple projects. The role involves leading AI solution development, collaborating with data scientists, and ensuring compliance with data privacy and security.
BiotechnologyHealth CareHospitalMedical
Responsibilities
Develop Business Case - The AI architect works with business stakeholders and business owners to develop the architecture needed and clearly define the outcomes and success metrics
Data Discovery - The AI architect must work with information/data architects, analytics team members and data scientists to identify and make available the data required. In addition, the AI architect must be sensitive to the data’s privacy, security and compliance issues
Model Selection- Depending on the business outcome sought, the AI solution development team will need to select the right foundation model to deliver the services needed. The AI architect will support the identification of the foundation model and ensure that it can address the needs of the business architecture
Model Training and Testing-The AI architect must work with stakeholders from across the IT organization to ensure that the right environment and computing resources are available for training and testing. This extends to ensuring that the data needed for testing and training is made available to the development team. The AI architect also supports the development of a training and testing plan, as well as the analysis of results and opportunities for improvement
Model Deployment- The AI architect will work with business and IT stakeholders to develop a roll-out plan for the AI solution
Continuous Monitoring- The AI architect will support the development of the monitoring plan and participate in the governance model if needed
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a related field with 10 years of relevant work experience OR 14 years total relevant work experience
Holds deep technical mastery and business knowledge across multiple technology domains
Strategic thinking and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business, clinical and political factors
Has a broad background implementing different architectures to meet differing needs
Strong written and verbal communication skills and possesses good presentation skills
Demonstrated ability to direct the implementation of diverse technologies in a complex organization
Diplomacy and interpersonal skills to lead others to provide inputs for the purpose of sharing with customers, partners, and higher management on vision and need for key technologies
Demonstrated experiences innovating beyond the state of the art
Maximizing technical efficiency and setting technical direction
Understand the workflow and pipeline architectures of ML and deep learning workloads. An in-depth knowledge of components and architectural trade-offs involved in data management, governance, model building, deployment and production workflows of AI
Demonstrates a good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies
Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives; documents all AI solution architecture design and analysis work
Supports the development and delivery of data strategy for AI solution training, testing and deployment
Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize AI solution development across products, services, projects and systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information
Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of an 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
Develops data management strategies for AI model development, training and deployment
Articulates the business impact of AI solutions that translate technical performance into business success metrics
Deliver presentation skills to relevant stakeholders and technical audiences
Demonstrates a broad background implementing different architectures to meet differing needs
Experience in software development and coding in various languages (C#, .NET, Java etc.)
Preferred
Healthcare IT experience preferred
Has a Healthcare Payers knowledge of business and processes
Deliver presentations to senior-level executives
Experience with such AI techniques as natural-language processing (NLP); computer vision; deep learning tools, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and AI/ML; libraries, such as GitHub and Hugging Face
Company
UPMC
UPMC is one of the leading nonprofit health systems in the United States. A $10 billion integrated global health enterprise headquartered
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.46MKey Investors
Appalachian Regional Commission
2024-09-18Grant· $0.46M
Leadership Team
Leslie Davis
President and CEO
Frederick M. Hargett
Chief Financial Officer
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