{"id":4234980,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aflac-data-mod-applied-ai-lead","title":"Data Mod & Applied AI Lead","company":{"id":1761097,"name":"Aflac","domain":"aflac.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/aflac-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T07:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T11:48:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"Opportunity: Data Mod & Applied AI Lead\nSalary Range: $140,000 - $200,000\nDivision: Digital Services\nJob Posting End Date:\nWork Designation. Depending on your location within the continental US, this role may be hybrid or remote.\nIf you live within 50 miles of the Aflac offices located in Columbus, GA or Columbia, SC, this role will be hybrid. This means you will be expected to work in the office for at least 60% of the work week. You will work from your home (within the continental US) for the remaining portion of the work week. Details of this schedule will be discussed with your leadership. \nIf you live more than 50 miles from the Aflac offices located in Columbus, GA or Columbia, SC, this role will be remote. This means you will be expected to work from your home, within the continental US. If the role is remote, there may be occasions that you are requested to come to the office based on business need. Any requests to come to the office would be communicated with you in advance.\nWhat does it take to be successful at Aflac?\nActing with Integrity\nCommunicating Effectively\nPursuing Self-Development\nServing Customers\nSupporting Change\nSupporting Organizational Goals\nWorking with Diverse Populations\nOverview:\nLead the data and applied AI program that modernizes our data foundation and builds new data products and agentic processes for the business. The program includes migrating legacy batch ETL to a cloud-native medallion architecture across insurance domains, replacing legacy BI tools with a serverless self-service analytics platform, and deploying AI agents across the data landscape. Delivery is tracked through git repositories rather than Scrum or SAFe ceremonies or a ticketing system. This is not a hands-on engineering role, but it requires daily work in git, markdown, and AI development tools.\nWhat does it take to be successful in this role?\nExperience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP data services stack)\nFamiliarity with medallion architecture / modern data platform patterns\nExperience with spec-driven AI development environments (Kiro, Claude Code, or similar)\nBackground in insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries\nExperience managing programs where AI agents perform significant portions of the implementation work\nInterest in or exposure to applied AI - agentic systems, conversational interfaces, or AI-driven automation beyond developer tooling\nEducation & Experience Required\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Administration or other related field\n6+ years leading or managing technology programs (delivery manager, technical PM, engineering manager, or similar)\nDemonstrated experience with data platforms, data engineering, or analytics/BI programs\nExperience with AI coding/productivity tools\nExperience working in or adjacent to git-based development workflows\nTrack record of delivering complex programs with small, high-autonomy teams\nOr an equivalent combination of education and experience\nEducation & Experience Preferred\nExperience leading data platform, data engineering, or analytics/BI programs, including teams building pipelines, data warehouses, or reporting systems.\nHands-on use of AI coding tools (e.g., Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) in own work, not only managing teams that use them.\nWorking proficiency with git, pull requests, and markdown-based documentation. \nPrincipal Duties & Responsibilities\nLead AI-enabled requirements management by leveraging AI tools and agents to develop comprehensive intent-based specifications that clearly define business objectives, acceptance criteria, solution requirements, and design constraints, enabling consistent and unambiguous execution.\nOwn and evolve the program knowledge ecosystem, maintaining a structured repository of architecture documentation, decision records, roadmaps, standards, and domain knowledge that serves as the authoritative source for both human teams and AI-enabled workflows.\nDrive data-informed program execution by leveraging repository-based metrics and delivery signals to monitor specification progress, workflow health, cycle times, and program outcomes, eliminating reliance on manual status reporting.\nManage and prioritize the delivery portfolio, evaluating business value, dependencies, risks, and resource capacity to sequence work effectively and decompose complex initiatives into actionable, executable workstreams with AI-assisted analysis.\nEnsure solution quality and value realization by validating delivered capabilities against defined acceptance criteria, assessing outcomes, and identifying opportunities to improve requirements, processes, or execution approaches.\nContinuously enhance delivery standards and governance frameworks by establishing and maintaining reusable patterns, guidance, and operational controls that improve consistency, quality, and scalability across AI-enabled development efforts.\nTranslate technical progress into business outcomes, providing stakeholders with clear insights through meaningful metrics, demonstrations, and value-focused communications that drive alignment and decision-making.\nGuide strategic trade-off decisions across speed, quality, cost, risk, and automation considerations to optimize program outcomes while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability.\nDefine and measure program success, establishing key performance indicators, success metrics, and value realization frameworks that drive accountability and continuously improve delivery effectiveness, specification quality, and operational efficiency.\nChampion AI-driven ways of working by embedding AI capabilities into program management, delivery processes, and decision-making practices to accelerate innovation, improve productivity, and enhance organizational effectiveness.\nPerforms other duties as required\nTotal Rewards\nThe salary range for this job is $140,000 - $200,000. This range is specific to the job and salary offers consider a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and peer compensation. The range has been created in good faith based on information known to Aflac at the time of the posting. \n\nAt Aflac, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role to allow for future and continued salary growth, and compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. This salary range does not include any potential incentive pay or benefits, however, such information will be provided separately when appropriate. \n\nIn addition to the base salary, we offer an array of benefits to meet your needs including medical, dental, and vision coverage, prescription drug coverage, health care flexible spending, dependent care flexible spending, Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee), 401(k) plans, annual bonuses, and an opportunity to purchase company stock. On an annual basis, you’ll also be offered 11 paid holidays, up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason, and, if eligible, state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked) and other leaves of absence, if eligible, when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. 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