AVP, AI Enterprise Architecture

Our Fortune 500 company is driving a digital transformation and looking for forward-thinking innovators to disrupt how our industry thinks about and uses technology. As one of the world's leading employee benefits providers, we help millions of people gain affordable access to benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures.

Are you an asker of questions, a solver of problems, and a challenger of the status quo? Our mission is to provide a differentiated customer experience and exceed the expectations people have of technology at any company — not just insurers. We are seeking individuals to join our team of talented IT professionals who share never-ending passion and an unwavering focus on our customer experience.

Team members comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment thrive in our environment where we value an entrepreneurial spirit and those who challenge the status-quo.

Unum is changing, and we’re excited about what’s next. Join us.

General

Summary:

This role is responsible for defining and advancing the enterprise AI architecture strategy assuring scalable, secure, and flexible AI capabilities that enable rapid delivery of business value.

It serves as the bridge between enterprise architecture strategy and execution, shaping how solutions integrating AI are designed, governed, and deployed across the organization. The leader directly contributes to the design and development of enterprise AI platforms, reference architectures, and reusable patterns, while ensuring our AI architecture & technology decisions align to Unum Group’s business strategy and long-term value.

This role acts as a thought leader and orchestrator, partnering across technology and business teams to integrate AI into the enterprise in a disciplined, sustainable, and responsible way.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities Define and evolve the enterprise AI architecture strategy and standards

Be the enterprise architecture representative in AI governance committees and directly contribute to governance frameworks and enterprise standards.

Ensure enterprise AI capabilities are aligned to business outcomes and enterprise priorities

Design scalable, modular, and secure agentic AI solutions

Establish reference architectures, reusable patterns, and enterprise platforms to industrialize AI capabilities at scale (primarily cloud-based / hyperscaler capabilities)
Align AI architecture with enterprise capabilities and technology roadmaps

Evaluate emerging technologies and guide tool/platform selection to ensure cost-effective, future-ready solutions

Continuously maintain and update the enterprise AI platform roadmaps as the technology and industry capabilities evolve

Ensure consistent adoption of architecture standards across delivery teams

Lead architecture governance, compliance, and quality (design-time and runtime performance)
Influences senior leaders and drives alignment across stakeholders

Partner with business, product, and technology leaders to translate strategy into execution

Guide and mentor architects and technical leaders while being a champion of disciplined architecture practices across the organization

Drive continuous improvement through learnings from implementation and solution delivery

Define business outcomes, use cases, and success metrics; support AI business cases

Partner with the enterprise data team to ensure availability, governance, and compliance of data required for AI solutions

Lead evaluation and selection of foundation models (LLMs, etc.) based on business fit and cost Oversee model training, validation, and risk assessment (e.g., bias, hallucination)
Define deployment approaches and support enterprise adoption and change management

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