Director of Enterprise AI & Intelligent Automation

Vizient; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient seeks a senior Automation Architect to lead enterprise intelligent automation initiatives across the organization. You will shape architecture, oversee delivery, and drive scalable engineering practices that blend Power Platform, UiPath, APIs, cloud services, and AI to solve business problems.

Partner with business, security, infrastructure and delivery teams to build secure, production-ready automation capabilities and mentor engineers through complex programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, enterprise integration, automation engineering, platform engineering or related tech functions required.
• Strong hands-on background with Power Platform and/or UiPath, plus broader software engineering experience.
• Experience with APIs, cloud services, identity and security patterns, databases, source control, CI/CD, automated testing and observability.
• Experience architecting enterprise solutions beyond traditional RPA, including API-driven, event-driven, low-code, orchestration and AI-enabled patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and engineering of enterprise intelligent automation solutions using Power Platform, UiPath, APIs, cloud services, integration patterns and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Determine appropriate solution patterns for each use case: workflow, low-code, RPA, API integration, orchestration or AI-enabled combos.
• Set technical standards for design, coding, integration, security, deployment, observability and reuse.
• Provide technical oversight across design, build, testing, deployment, monitoring and production support.
• Build reusable automation components, connectors, templates, frameworks and implementation patterns to accelerate Vizient deliveries.
• Drive modern software engineering practices: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, environment management and engineering docs.
• Promote API-first, reusable patterns to reduce platform-specific customization.
• Advance the team from traditional RPA to intelligent automation with deterministic workflows, APIs, AI models and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Evaluate emerging automation/AI tech and advise on adoption, standardization and retirement.
• Lead, mentor and develop automation engineers; communicate architecture decisions and risks to stakeholders.

Skills

Power Platform

UiPath

APIs

Cloud services

Security patterns

CI/CD

Observability

AI capabilities

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

Dataverse

Job description

Vizient seeks a senior Automation Architect to lead enterprise intelligent automation initiatives across the organization. You will shape architecture, oversee delivery, and drive scalable engineering practices that blend Power Platform, UiPath, APIs, cloud services, and AI to solve business problems.

Partner with business, security, infrastructure and delivery teams to build secure, production-ready automation capabilities and mentor engineers through complex programs.