Chief Enterprise AI & Automation Platform Leader

Voya Financial; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 313,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision and life plans

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Voya Financial is seeking an executive to own the strategy, development, and operation of the company’s enterprise AI, automation, intelligence, and data capabilities. The role unites AI-native software engineering, data science, intelligent automation and data governance to deliver scalable value.

The leader will drive standards, security, and observability, transform the SDLC with AI, and collaborate with business leaders to prioritize high-value use cases while expanding Voya’s AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 15+ years of experience leading technology, engineering, data, AI, automation, or platform organizations.
• Executive-level accountability for enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience building and scaling enterprise platforms across large organizations.
• Experience leading AI, automation, or developer platform transformations with measurable outcomes.
• Experience operating in regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of AI, automation, software engineering, data management, governance, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams and capability centers.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Voya’s Enterprise AI Platform as the shared foundation for AI capabilities across the company, including reusable services for model management, orchestration, agents, knowledge retrieval, evaluation, context management, and developer enablement.
• Establish enterprise standards, governance, security, observability, and responsible AI controls, and drive adoption across technology and business teams through a hub-and-spoke operating model.
• Transform software development lifecycle by embedding AI across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operations, using reusable tools and standards.
• Lead enterprise Data Science, ML, and Applied AI capabilities, industrializing solutions from experimentation through production, including model development, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Partner with business leaders to prioritize high-value use cases and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Lead Intelligent Automation and RPA capabilities, evolving traditional automation toward AI-enabled workflows and AI-driven orchestration.
• Define enterprise intelligence, knowledge, and data architecture to support AI, automation, and digital experiences.
• Lead data architecture, engineering, governance, data products, and platform modernization, ensuring trusted, governed data across providers.
• Build and lead high-performing teams across AI engineering, platform engineering, data science, automation, intelligence, and data.
• Grow capabilities while selectively leveraging providers and partners, keeping strategic assets within Voya.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic leadership

Enterprise platform scaling

AI/Automation transformation

Regulated industries

AI & data governance

Distributed teams

Enterprise AI platforms

AI-native SDLC

Intelligent automation

Financial services domain

Platform/data/AI integration

Talent acquisition partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Job description

Voya Financial is seeking an executive to own the strategy, development, and operation of the company’s enterprise AI, automation, intelligence, and data capabilities. The role unites AI-native software engineering, data science, intelligent automation and data governance to deliver scalable value.

The leader will drive standards, security, and observability, transform the SDLC with AI, and collaborate with business leaders to prioritize high-value use cases while expanding Voya’s AI