Associate Director- Data Sciences

Providence Global Center; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Supportive Reporting Relation

Job summary

Providence Global Center in Hyderabad, India seeks Associate Director of AI Solution Architecture to lead design, evaluation, and scaling of enterprise AI solutions, focusing on healthcare use cases and production-grade trustworthiness.

You will perform hands-on model evaluation, provide enterprise architecture leadership, and influence executives to align AI strategies with regulatory standards, cost, and performance goals.

Qualifications

• 14+ years in AI/ML, data science, or advanced analytics with senior enterprise solution experience.
• Proven ability to evaluate and deploy AI models in regulated environments.
• Hands-on model evaluation, benchmarking, and experimentation.
• Ability to influence executive leaders and senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own AI solution architecture across GenAI, ML, SLMs, and RAGs from data to deployment.
• Lead evaluation of first- and third-party AI models for health use cases.
• Define and publish AI metrics: accuracy, bias, cost, latency, scalability.
• Drive build vs buy vs embed decisions for AI platforms and vendors.
• Experience evaluating vendor AI solutions and foundation models.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and clinical stakeholders to meet standards.

Skills

AI Solution Architecture

Model Evaluation

Leadership

Executive Influence

Enterprise Architecture

Job description

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Providence, one of the US’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems, is committed to high quality, compassionate healthcare for all. Driven by the belief that health is a human right and the vision, ‘Health for a better world’, Providence and its 121,000 caregivers strive to provide everyone access to affordable quality care and services.

Providence has a network of 51 hospitals, 1,000+ care clinics, senior services, supportive housing, and other health and educational services in the US.

Providence India is bringing to fruition the transformational shift of the healthcare ecosystem to Health 2.0. The India center will have focused efforts around healthcare technology and innovation, and play a vital role in driving digital transformation of health systems for improved patient outcomes and experiences, caregiver efficiency, and running the business of Providence at scale.

Why Us?

• Competitive Pay
• Supportive Reporting Relation

The Opportunity

The Associate Director of AI Solution Architecture leads the design, evaluation, and scaling of enterprise AI solutions, with a strong focus on healthcare use cases. This role combines hands‑on AI model evaluation, enterprise architecture leadership, and executive influence to ensure AI solutions are accurate, trustworthy, cost‑effective, and production‑ready. This role will be crucial for both Providence internal implementations as well as external health systems.

Key Responsibilites

Strategic and Thought leadership:

• Own Cyber AI solution architecture across GenAI, ML, SLMs, RAGs, etc. from data to deployment.
• Lead hands‑on evaluation of first‑and third‑party AI models, especially for health and clinical use cases.
• Define and publish standard AI metrics: accuracy, bias/fairness, cost, latency, scalability, and time‑to‑development.
• Drive build vs buy vs embed decisions for AI platforms and vendors.
• Experience evaluating vendor AI solutions, foundation models, and platform‑embedded AI.
• Exposure to AI risk management frameworks, model cards, and audit readiness.
• Experience operating in large, complex enterprises or Global Capability Centers (GCCs).

Leadership:

• Establish a strong point of view on AI observability, governance, and responsible AI.
• Influence senior leaders on AI strategy, investment decisions, and risk trade‑offs using evidence‑based insights.
• Guide and mentor AI engineers and data scientists on architecture choices, model evaluation, and solution options.
• Partner with security, compliance, and clinical stakeholders to ensure AI solutions meet enterprise and regulatory standards

Professional Experience/Qualifications

• 14+ years in AI/ML, data science, or advanced analytics, with senior experience in enterprise solution architecture and implementation high quality production grade solutions
• Proven experience evaluating and deploying AI models in regulated environments
• AI - 1-2yrs in AI Space on thought leadership
• Strong hands‑on expertise in model evaluation, benchmarking, and experimentation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence both executive leaders and senior engineers.
• Excellent ability to design, prioritize, plan and track large scale products.
• Understanding of AI governance, observability, and lifecycle management.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in People Management

Providence’s vision to create ‘Health for a Better World’ aids us to provide a fair and equitable workplace for all in our employment, whether temporary, part-time or full time, and to promote individuality and diversity of thought and background, and acknowledge its role in the organization’s success. This makes us committed towards equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, religion or belief, color, ancestry, disability, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, pregnancy, or related needs, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, or any other category protected by applicable law. In furtherance to our mission in building a more inclusive and equitable environment, we shall, from time to time, undertake programs to assist, uplift and empower underrepresented groups including but not limited to Women, PWD (Persons with Disabilities), LGTBQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual or Queer), Veterans and others. We strive to address all forms of discrimination or harassment and provide a safe and confidential process to report any misconduct.

Providence Global Center 8th Floor, Skyview 1083/1, Raidurgam,
Hitech City Main Rd, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India