Lead Director - AI Governance Engineering

CVS Health Corporation; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus & equity opportunities

Career growth

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation seeks a Lead Director, AI Governance Engineering to build a lean team delivering governance-as-code: platform-agnostic SDKs, APIs, and automated controls. You will shift toward registration-driven workflows with built-in guardrails and observability.

You will partner with AI platform teams, security and privacy to embed controls into development workflows, driving measurable outcomes across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software or platform engineering teams.
• Strong system architecture skills across APIs, automation, CI/CD, and data platforms.
• Experience building developer-facing tools such as SDKs, templates, or automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with ML and Generative AI lifecycles and governance controls via automation.
• Ability to translate governance or risk requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a small, high-impact AI Governance Engineering team.
• Partner with AI platform teams, governance, security, and privacy partners to embed technical controls.
• Define and track outcomes such as reduced intake complexity and faster cycle times.
• Design unified intake APIs and automated risk classification for registrations and provisioning workflows.
• Integrate governance checks into CI/CD pipelines to generate evidence during development.

Skills

Leadership

API design

CI/CD

SDKs

Governance automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SDKs

Templates

Automation frameworks

Job description

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary AI adoption across the organization is accelerating, and existing governance processes can add cycle time and rely heavily on manual review. We are building an AI Governance Engineering capability to modernize governance through automation—shifting from approval-heavy workflows to registration-driven workflows with built-in controls, and continuous observability. As Lead Director, AI Governance Engineering, you will create and lead a lean engineering team responsible for delivering governance-as-code: platform-agnostic SDKs, APIs, and automated controls that help teams move faster while ensuring responsible AI guardrails are consistently enforced.

Key Responsibilities

• Automated Use Case Intake & Risk Classification Design unified intake APIs and user experiences that reduce friction and automatically populate metadata and integrate with application registration and provisioning workflows
• Implement dynamic intake flows for ML, Generative AI, and agentic use cases.
• Deliver automated inherent risk scoring and risk-based routing to provisioning and monitoring workflows.
• Governance-as-Code Toolkits Partner with AI Governance Data Scient to develop a platform-agnostic Python/SDK offering automated governance controls such as bias, drift, and AI safety testing. Integrate governance checks into CI/CD pipelines so evidence is generated during development.
• Enterprise Model & Use Case Registry Integration Enable event-driven ingestion of intake data and model artifacts into the enterprise registry. Support automated generation of audit-ready compliance artifacts and APIs for reviewers and auditors.
• Self-Service Enablement & Automation Expand policy-based routing for low- and high-risk AI use cases. Automate proof-of-concept lifecycle patterns and accelerate access to approved AI environments.
• Governance for Agentic Automation Establish execution safety patterns for internal AI agents, including permission-scoped actions. Partner with information security to implement runtime guardrails such as prompt filtering, data protection controls, and real-time observability.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Build and lead a small, high-impact AI Governance Engineering team.
• Partner with AI platform teams, governance, security, and privacy partners to embed technical controls into development workflows.
• Define and track outcomes such as reduced intake complexity, faster cycle times, and improved governance transparency.

Required Qualifications

• Experience leading software or platform engineering teams.
• Strong system architecture skills across APIs, automation, CI/CD, and data platforms.
• Experience building developer-facing tools such as SDKs, templates, or automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with ML and Generative AI lifecycles and how governance controls can be validated through automation.
• Ability to translate governance or risk requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Education Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Analytics, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Master's degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Responsible AI concepts such as fairness, transparency, explainability, and auditability.
• Experience integrating automated quality gates into Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Background working in regulated or high-trust technology environments.

What Success Looks Like

AI intake processes are simpler, faster, and largely automated. Engineering teams have reusable SDKs and templates that make responsible AI the default. Validation of controls shifts from self-reporting to automated checks and evidence. Centralized observability provides real-time insight into AI usage, performance, and risk.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $144,200.00 - $288,400.00 This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Benefits

• Great benefits for great people We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
• This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families.
• The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
• Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We value collaboration, learning, and curiosity.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/25/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.