Director of AI Architecture

Position Title: Director of AI Architecture (Chief AI Architect Equivalent)

Location: Dallas, TX / Remote 

Your role 

The Director of AI Strategy and Architecture will lead the strategic vision, development, and deployment of AI solutions across the enterprise, with a key focus on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and integration with enterprise data governance frameworks. This role is critical in driving AI innovation, establishing enterprise standards for AI tools, and ensuring the successful delivery of AI and machine learning (ML) solutions that align with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in traditional ML techniques, deep learning, and modern Generative AI architectures (e.g., transformers, diffusion models), and will work with commercial models (GPT-4, etc.) as well as open-source models (e.g., Llama2). The Director will collaborate closely with business leaders to define and execute the AI strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with data governance frameworks.

What you’ll do 

• AI Strategy & Roadmap: Define and lead the AI strategy and roadmap in collaboration with business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and data governance frameworks.
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Solutions: Design and oversee the implementation of RAG systems, integrating external data sources with AI models to enhance information retrieval and knowledge generation capabilities.
• AI Architecture & Solutions: Develop scalable AI solutions leveraging state-of-the-art architectures such as transformers, diffusion models, and RAG systems, ensuring compliance with enterprise data governance policies.
• Integration with Data Governance: Collaborate with the corporate data governance team to ensure AI solutions are integrated with the company's enterprise data governance framework, focusing on data quality, security, and compliance.
• AI Governance: Establish and maintain enterprise standards for AI architecture, tools, and governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with overall enterprise data governance policies.
• Team Leadership: Contribute to high-performing AI teams, providing mentorship and strategic direction in the development and deployment of AI solutions.
• Model Development: Guide the design, development, and deployment of both commercial and open-source AI models, including transformers, generative models, large language models (LLMs), and RAG implementations.
• Model Fine-Tuning: Oversee the fine-tuning of language models, ensuring they are tailored to specific enterprise needs and integrated seamlessly into AI solutions while maintaining alignment with data governance and compliance standards.
• Collaboration with IT & Business: Partner with IT, business units, and other stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives are aligned with business needs and integrated into the broader enterprise architecture and data governance framework.
• Database Management: Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring AI models and RAG systems can efficiently access and utilize enterprise data, while adhering to data governance standards.
• Azure & Cloud Integration: Leverage cloud platforms like Azure for AI model deployment, data management, and large-scale AI operations.
• Emerging AI Technologies: Stay abreast of the latest AI trends and tools, such as Langchain, LlamaIndex, and other ecosystem tools critical for AI advancements, with a focus on Retrieval Augmented Generation and data governance compliance.

What you’ll need

• 15+ years of experience in data, AI, and ML, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-level AI solutions.
• Advanced understanding of Generative AI architectures, including transformers and diffusion models, and experience in deploying large-scale models.
• Experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, including integrating external knowledge bases with AI models.
• Experience with commercial models (e.g., GPT-4, etc.) and open-source models (e.g., Llama2, etc.).
• Expertise in Langchain and LlamaIndex.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and their integration with AI models and RAG systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise data governance frameworks and the ability to integrate AI solutions within these frameworks.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services and other cloud-based AI deployment platforms.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) for capturing, maintaining, and aligning AI solution architectures with broader enterprise architecture standards and business objectives.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technical AI concepts into business value.
• Master's degree in Data Science, AI, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred).
• Preferred Skills:
• Strong leadership experience with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive enterprise-wide AI transformation.
• Hands-on experience in implementing AI/ML and RAG pipelines in large organizations.
• Familiarity with AI governance and data governance frameworks and best practices.
• Effective communication skills for engaging with both technical teams and business stakeholders..

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team 

Technology & Innovation

Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL® across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we’ve built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage, combined with our global footprint, means the Technology Innovation team can create and deploy services and solutions that are at the heart of the digital economy.

What we can offer you 

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more. 

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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