Director,AI Enablement Job Kitchener area,Waterloo Ontario Canada,IT/Tech

Position: Director, AI Enablement.
Location: Waterloo

From product development to implementation, our unified Enterprise Imaging Platform is purpose-built to reduce complexity, improve productivity and deliver clinical value. We use our proven track record as an innovator, our in-depth medical knowledge and our strategic guidance to help healthcare providers achieve their clinical, operational and business strategies.

AGFA Health Care is on a mission to deliver imaging without barriers through the industry’s most comprehensive Enterprise Imaging Platform. Through RUBEE, our augmented intelligence layer, we help healthcare providers work more productively, with greater clinical confidence and less cognitive load.

We are equally committed to applying AI to empower our own teams. We are hiring a Director of AI Engineering & Enablement, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, to lead the transformation of how our R&D organization designs, builds, tests, documents, and delivers products using AI-assisted tools.

This role is accountable for defining and executing a multi-year transformation of all global R&D practices by embedding AI into the core of the entire software development & delivery lifecycle by enabling and empowering the entire organization to level up in the new era of AI-powered software product delivery. The Director has the mandate to lead the transformation in a hands-on way with deep software engineering credibility, ensuring that AI adoption delivers measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and team member experience within our regulated environment.

This is not a standalone AI team and not a policy or tools-only leadership role. The Director leads through example, partnership, coaching and hands-on engagement, enabling engineering teams to adopt AI within their workflows without each team reinventing the wheel. The successful leader will stay on the leading edge of this rapidly evolving technology, bringing the highest ROI advancements to our team, while standardizing, establishing durable standards, financial, safety & security guardrails, and always in an ethical way.

Utilize metrics to demonstrate our progress.

Fundamentally change how global R&D team designs, develops, tests, documents & delivers a software products Ensure AI becomes a default, trusted capability across the entire software development lifecycle Drive adoption that is scalable, compliant, and sustainable Balance strong governance with practical adoption to avoid unnecessary barriers to progress. Stay on the leading edge of AI software delivery knowledge to assess emerging tools, technology and practices in order to adjust our roadmap to achieve higher ROI or better outcomes as needed.

Location:

Waterloo, ON

What You'll Do:

Lead the AI-Driven Transformation of R&D

Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI-enabled software-product design, development, testing, documentation and delivery.

Establish how AI is applied across the SDLC

Set clear expectations for AI adoption tied to engineering outcomes

Start with an AI enablement roadmap and priority pilots within product teams

Quickly develop metrics to give a clear view of progress and opportunities

Hands-On Engineering Leadership

Partner directly with engineering teams, including pairing with product management, architects, developers, testers, technical writers, and program managers.

Participate in pilots within active product codebases

Model effective AI usage through hands-on engagement

Enable & Empower Teams

Coach teams to adopt AI within their own ownership boundaries

Establish reusable patterns and playbooks

Facilitate a rotating, cross-team AI working group

Rapidly scale successful practices across teams, ensuring teams build on proven approaches rather than reinventing solutions locally.

AI Tooling Strategy

Define and govern AI tooling direction for R&D

Evaluate and approve AI development tools keeping within budget

Partner with Dev Ops, Tooling and Security to operationalize tooling

Compliance Enablement

Partner with Compliance and Legal teams who own policy

Translate regulatory requirements into practical engineering guardrails

Measure and Govern Outcomes

Define metrics for productivity, quality, and adoption

Use data to guide strategy and investment decisions

Who You Are:

Demonstrated credibility with senior software engineering leaders and practitioners

Extensive hands-on senior software engineering experience

Demonstrated ability to coach & mentor technical team members

Proven success leading engineering transformation at scale

Practical use of AI tools in real engineering environments, with proven results, not just experimentation

Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels

Proven ability to balance innovation, governance, security, and ROI

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position now or in the future.

Experience in regulated industries

Experience translating regulatory constraints into engineering practices

Experience tracking…