Engineering Director - AI Solutions (Enabling Functions)
Core
Senior engineering leadership role responsible for technical direction, hands-on delivery, and production scaling of AI solutions across enterprise enabling functions (HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Audit, Compliance).
Role type
Senior IC engineering director (AI governance & multi-agent systems)
Builds
Multi-agent LLM architectures, RAG pipelines, governed AI applications, and reusable agent patterns
Domain
Enterprise AI, regulated industries (Finance, Legal, HR), multi-jurisdictional data sovereignty
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
multi-agent system design, RAG pipeline construction, AI governance framework design, regulatory compliance navigation, data sovereignty architecture, model strategy, human-in-the-loop oversight, audit logging, build-vs-buy decisions
Preferred skills
experience in large regulated enterprises, experience delivering across multiple enabling functions, experience with EU AI Act and emerging national frameworks
Technologies
foundation models, fine-tuning, multi-provider orchestration, region-specific cloud deployments, local model hosting
Responsibilities
Lead engineering roadmap for AI across enabling functions; Design and ship multi-agent LLM architectures; Build RAG pipelines with hallucination guards and audit logging; Design governance structures including classification, risk assessment, and model registration; Ensure systems meet multi-jurisdictional data protection and AI-specific regulations; Design data-residency and model-routing approaches respecting sovereignty constraints; Embed deterministic classification and human-gated action into agentic architecture; Own ongoing governance obligations for live AI systems including periodic re-assessment and change-impact assessment (via careerplan.io/jobs/R-258650-2-engineering-director-ai-solutions-enabling-functions-at-astrazeneca)
