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Director, AI Architecture & Governance

Cambridge, MA💼 Full-time💰 $206,000–$206,000🗓 2026-06-16 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define and govern enterprise-scale AI and Generative AI architectures across the life sciences value chain, establishing standards, platform strategies, and governance frameworks for safe, scalable delivery.

Role type

Senior technical leadership (Director)

Builds

Enterprise AI reference architecture, platform/tooling strategies, and governance frameworks for R&D, clinical, and operations

Domain

Life sciences / Biotech / Regulated environments

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AI/ML system architecture, enterprise data platforms, cloud architectures, governance and security models, model lifecycle management, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Biotech/pharma domain experience, regulated environment experience (CSV/quality), data governance partnership

Technologies

Modern data platforms, cloud architectures, agentic capabilities

Responsibilities

Define enterprise AI reference architecture (data, model, orchestration, integration); Lead build vs. buy vs. partner decisions for AI/ML tooling; Establish governance and validation standards for AI/ML solutions; Define data access and security models for AI systems; Maintain oversight of AI use case portfolio execution; Drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on architectural definition

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