Sr Mgr- AI Strategy and Enterprise Architecture (Hybrid)

Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:

• Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least once per week

• Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month

• Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job

• Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building

Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per month.

This position is hybrid within the state of AZ only.  This hybrid work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Drives the Information Technology (IT) Architecture (Solutions Architecture and Data Architecture) structure and operations, and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for AZ Blue. Collaborates alongside business leaders/areas to explain our architecture structure and AI initiatives to develop short- and long-term strategies and support project deliverables. Works with, and supports, IT leadership to develop a roadmap that focuses on gaps, future state of architecture and AI, as well as optimization of all processes. The Senior Manager will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of the company's overall IT architecture, aligning it with business strategy, and specifically integrating AI capabilities across all systems and processes to drive innovation and business value.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

• 10 years of experience designing, building, and supporting large IT enterprise environments
• 10 years of experience designing and supporting large AI initiatives and strategies with IT or similar areas
• 5 years of experience designing large-scale infrastructure and/or enterprise level solutions
• 4 years of experience in AI strategy and management driving change on a large scale
• 3 years of experiences with AI disciplines, such as machine learning, deep learning, NLP, speech-to-text, computer vision, etc.
• 3 years of experience in IS/business, programming, engineering and/or application management and/or Infrastructure components such as Storage, Servers, Network and Virtualization and/or Data management, BI and/or Data Warehousing projects.
• 3 years of project management experience

Required Education

• Associate’s degree in business, information technology, computer systems, or related field

Required Licenses

• N/A

Required Certifications

• N/A

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Work Experience

• 5 years of experience in AI solutions and data collection
• 5 years of experience with designing end-to-end AI models, dashboards and related programming
• 3 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role
• 3 years of experience with deployment
• 3 years of experience in a management or leadership role

Preferred Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field

Preferred Licenses

• N/A

Preferred Certifications

• N/A
   

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure integrity of AI and architect solutions and qualified state during their lifetime; conduct product evaluations and tradeoffs.
• Work with Information Security Services and Corporate Integrity to design with system and application security in mind.
• Harness cutting-edge AI methodologies, including computer vision and Gen AI / advanced Natural Language Processing, to deliver tangi