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We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.\nSummary\nIn this role, you will lead the enterprise capability responsible for helping Product and Delivery teams adopt Vizient’s AI Delivery Lifecycle and AI Factory. You will lead a team of Forward Deployment Engineers who partner directly with teams to accelerate AI adoption, remove implementation barriers, and move solutions from discovery and prototyping through production.\nThis leader combines expertise in artificial intelligence, product delivery, technical program management, and organizational enablement to establish repeatable practices and scalable adoption across the enterprise. The role partners with Engineering, Product, Security, Governance, Quality, Operations, and business leaders to enable the effective use of AI capabilities while maintaining accountability for product ownership, delivery commitments, and business outcomes.\nResponsibilities\nLead enterprise adoption of Vizient’s AI Delivery Lifecycle and AI Factory across Product and Delivery teams.\nLead, develop, and retain a team of Forward Deployment Engineers who support strategic initiatives and accelerate AI adoption.\nEstablish engagement models, prioritization processes, capacity plans, and success measures for Forward Deployment Engineering support.\nEnable teams to discover, integrate, and reuse approved AI capabilities, tools, patterns, and services through playbooks, workshops, coaching, and hands-on guidance.\nAssess team readiness, identify adoption barriers, and partner with cross-functional leaders to improve implementation effectiveness and team self-sufficiency.\nProvide technical guidance for pilots, prototypes, integrations, troubleshooting, production readiness, and continuous optimization of AI solutions.\nPartner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Security, Governance, Quality, and Operations teams to resolve delivery challenges and accelerate implementation.\nEstablish a scalable AI Enablement service model, adoption roadmap, prioritized backlog, and continuous improvement practices.\nIdentify recurring challenges, capability gaps, and successful implementation patterns, and translate them into reusable assets, standards, and guidance.\nDefine and track measures of success, including adoption, reuse, delivery efficiency, time to value, production readiness, and business impact.\nBuild trusted relationships with enterprise leaders and influence adoption through communication, facilitation, accountability, coaching, and change leadership.\nRepresent AI Enablement in enterprise AI planning, operating model discussions, capability roadmaps, and strategic technology initiatives.\nQualifications\n10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution delivery, architecture, platform enablement, technical consulting, or enterprise technology transformation required.\n5+ years of experience leading technical teams or large-scale, cross-functional technology initiatives required.\nDemonstrated success driving adoption of enterprise platforms, engineering frameworks, operating models, or shared technology capabilities across multiple teams required.\nExperience leading consultative or embedded engineering teams that accelerate delivery while maintaining clear ownership within Product, Engineering, and Delivery organizations required.\nStrong technical acumen, including the ability to evaluate architectures, review implementations, and provide hands-on technical guidance when needed required.\nExperience leading complex technology programs involving planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, stakeholder alignment, and outcome measurement required.\nExperience with product and process management, including roadmap development, prioritization, adoption strategy, continuous improvement, and value realization required.\nPractical experience delivering production AI or machine learning solutions, including generative AI, large language models, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and enterprise AI integrations required.\nExperience helping teams advance AI solutions from ideation and prototyping through deployment, operations, and continuous optimization required.\nWorking knowledge of modern cloud and software engineering practices, including APIs, CI/CD, security, observability, data integration, MLOps, and LLMOps required.\nAbility to influence and collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Security, Operations, and business stakeholders in a matrixed environment required.\nExceptional communication, facilitation, change leadership, and coaching skills required.\nYou must be authorized to work in the United States without Sponsorship.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. 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