Senior Director, AI Systems & Platform Innovation

Edwards Lifesciences; Irvine, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, CA is seeking a senior architect to lead AI & Technology innovations across the AI Center of Excellence. You will design a scalable AI platform, enforce standards, and drive cross-functional collaboration with IT and product teams.

You will own build/buy decisions, guide vendor spending, ensure production reliability, and shape the reference architecture for multi-tenant AI services, with a focus on security and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years in software or AI architecture.
• At least 5 years in formal technical leadership or chief architect capacity.
• Experience negotiating shared-capacity or co-delivery with internal IT.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable, secure, multi-tenant AI services that product and business teams can consume without rebuilding common capabilities
• Operate the AI platform as an internal product with defined customers, roadmap, service levels, adoption measures, and developer experience
• Chair the operating cadence of the AI Center of Excellence
• Own build, buy, or rent decisions for AI capabilities, with the authority to stop an internal build
• Own the reference architecture and enforce technical standards across all AI initiatives
• Own the AI gateway, model routing, and observability layer
• Build and lead delivery pods that include engineers from IT under a formal shared-capacity agreement
• Own and rationalize the AI platform estate, including vendor spend attribution
• Own production reliability for AI applications

Skills

AI architecture

Technical leadership

Negotiation with IT

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, CA is seeking a senior architect to lead AI & Technology innovations across the AI Center of Excellence. You will design a scalable AI platform, enforce standards, and drive cross-functional collaboration with IT and product teams.

You will own build/buy decisions, guide vendor spending, ensure production reliability, and shape the reference architecture for multi-tenant AI services, with a focus on security and observability.