About the Role:

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The Team:

The Director of AI Solutions & Integration leads the team that brings advanced analytics and AI capabilities into the heart of SPDJI's data operations. Reporting to the Director of Data AI & Enablement, this role ensures that AI is not just an experiment, but a production-ready, governed, and value-driving capability. This strategic leadership position enables SPDJI to harness the power of AI at scale, by accelerating innovation, enhancing productivity, and ensuring that every AI solution is safe, and aligned with business priorities.

Responsibilities and Impact:

Strategic Leadership & AI Vision

• Own and drive the AI solutions enablement strategy for SPDJI, defining how value streams design, build, and scale AI applications that deliver measurable business value
• Establish reference architectures and standards for GenAI/LLM solutions (e.g., RAG patterns, agentic workflows, orchestration, integration into data pipelines), ensuring solutions are secure, governable, and production-ready
• Define and implement enablement programs for GenAI, LLM, and agent-based solutions across the organization
• Contribute to the broader Data AI & Enablement strategy, ensuring AI capabilities align with organizational strategic goals and data platform initiatives
• Represent SPDJI Data at enterprise AI forums, advocating for AI capabilities and breakthrough innovations

AI Roadmap & Strategic Planning

• Partner with PPD and value stream leadership to shape the AI roadmap, provide feasibility input, identify dependencies, and define clear success metrics and acceptance criteria for prioritized use cases
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities across Equity, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset domains
• Balance innovation with pragmatism, ensuring AI investments deliver tangible business outcomes
• Provide technical leadership on emerging AI technologies and their applicability to index management and data operations

Delivery Through Enablement

• Co-develop AI applications with value stream SMEs, from prototyping to production deployment
• Establish prompt engineering and evaluation practices including reusable prompt patterns, test harnesses, quality benchmarks, and regression approaches to prevent degradation over time
• Oversee the design and implementation of end-to-end AI solutions including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM-enabled applications

Governance & Responsible AI

• Partner closely with the Data & AI Governance team to embed responsible AI practices and risk controls into every solution
• Ensure all AI solutions are integrated with governed data, meet security and operational requirements
• Establish and maintain frameworks for AI solution monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement

Production Readiness & IT Partnership

• Ensure operational readiness for IT handover by driving standards for documentation, monitoring, cost controls, incident response expectations, and secure integration with enterprise platforms
• Partner with IT to support QA processes and early production stabilization
• Establish quality gates and "definition of done" criteria specific to AI solutions

Team Development & Capability Building

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of AI Solutions Leads and Experts
• Develop team capability and reusable assets (starter kits, libraries, templates, office hours/workshops), accelerating adoption of AI patterns across the organization
• Collaborate effectively with Data Integration & Workflows and Data Governance teams to ensure cohesive platform enablement

Shared Accountabilities

• With PPD: Collaborate on AI roadmap prioritization and alignment with business requirements and strategic goals; provide realistic technical feasibility assessments and success metrics definition.
• With IT: Partner to ensure infrastructure readiness for AI workloads, smooth deployment of production-ready AI solutions, and operational excellence; establish clear support boundaries and SLAs.
• With Data Value Streams: Engage with value stream SMEs to co-develop AI solutions, ensuring alignment with business logic and domain expertise; assess and develop SME AI capabilities.
• With Data & AI Governance: Collaborate closely to embed responsible AI controls, conduct safety reviews, and ensure compliance with AI usage policies and risk management frameworks.
• With Data Integration & Workflows: Partner to operationalize AI data requirements, refresh cadences, a