VP Architect, AI & Platform

cccis; Chicago Heights (IL); On-site; USD 217,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

CCC Intelligent Solutions Inc. is seeking a Chief Architect, AI & Platform to define enterprise-wide architectural vision and ensure platforms, data systems, AI capabilities, and engineering practices scale together.

This leader will partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security, Infrastructure, Client Success, and executive leadership to translate business strategy into durable technical architecture and engage in hands-on design discussions with principal engineers, AI researchers,

Responsibilities

• Technology Vision and Architecture Strategy: define and evolve CCC's long-term architecture strategy across multiple cloud platforms, product domains, data platforms, APIs, integration patterns, AI/ML systems, and developer experience.
• AI-Native Platform Architecture: guide CCC's transition from software that uses AI to a platform that is increasingly AI-native, including architecture for predictive AI, computer vision, generative AI, agentic workflows, model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, AI observability, model governance, and safe automation.
• Data Architecture: lead the architecture for CCC's data foundation, including data products, event streams, metadata, lineage, governance, data contracts, lakehouse/warehouse patterns, real-time decisioning, and customer-facing analytics.
• Platform Modernization and Scalability: evolve multi-tenant SaaS architecture, cloud infrastructure, service boundaries, APIs, event-driven systems, integration patterns, and shared platform capabilities.
• Architecture Operating Model: build an architecture function with lightweight governance, reference implementations, decision records, and roadmaps; mentor engineers and raise the technical bar.
• Security, Trust, and Responsible AI: partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, and Product to ensure secure, auditable, and explainable AI and platform architecture.

Job description

Salary range is:
$217,236.65 - $300,000.00 This position is equity and bonus and/or commission eligible.

CCC Intelligent Solutions Inc. (CCC) is a leading cloud platform for the multi-trillion-dollar insurance economy , creating intelligent experiences for insurers, repairers, automakers, part suppliers, and more. At CCC, we're making life just work by empowering more than 35,000 businesses with industry-leading technology to get drivers back on the road and to health quickly and seamlessly. We're pushing boundaries with innovative AI solutions that simplify and enhance the claims and repair journey. Through purposeful innovation and the strength of its connections, CCC technologies empower the people and industry relied upon to keep lives moving forward when it matters most. Learn more about CCC at www.cccis.com .

The Role

The Chief Architect, AI & Platform will be responsible for setting CCC's enterprise-wide technical architecture vision and ensuring that our platforms, products, data systems, AI capabilities, and engineering practices scale together.

This leader will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security, Infrastructure, Client Success, and executive leadership to translate business strategy into a durable technical architecture. The ideal candidate is a hands-on strategic technologist who can move fluidly from board-level technology strategy to deep technical design conversations with principal engineers, AI researchers, platform teams, and product leaders.

This is a role for someone who understands modern SaaS platforms, AI-native product development, event-driven systems, high-scale data architecture, enterprise integration, and the operational discipline required for trusted automation in regulated, mission-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Technology Vision and Architecture Strategy: You will define and evolve CCC's long-term architecture strategy across multiple cloud platforms, product domains, data platforms, APIs, integration patterns, AI/ML systems, and developer experience. You will ensure that architectural choices support CCC's growth, customer trust, speed of innovation, operational resilience, and ability to scale AI-enabled workflows across the insurance economy.


• AI-Native Platform Architecture: You will guide CCC's transition from software that uses AI to a platform that is increasingly AI-native . This includes architecture for predictive AI, computer vision, generative AI, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop decisioning, model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, AI observability, model governance, and safe automation. You will help ensure CCC can deploy AI responsibly across high-consequence workflows such as damage assessment, estimating, claims routing, injury prediction, subrogation, total loss prediction, and customer communications.


• Data Architecture: You will lead the architecture for CCC's data foundation, including data products, event streams, metadata, lineage, governance, data contracts, lakehouse/warehouse patterns, real-time decisioning, and customer-facing analytics. Your goal will be to help CCC turn its ecosystem data advantage into reusable platform capabilities while maintaining privacy, security, accuracy, and customer trust. You will partner with data science and product teams to make CCC's proprietary data, workflow context, and ecosystem signals easier to use in AI models, product experiences, partner integrations, and internal decision systems.


• Platform Modernization and Scalability: You will guide the evolution of CCC's multi-tenant SaaS architecture, cloud infrastructure, service boundaries, APIs, event-driven systems, integration patterns, and shared platform capabilities. You will help engineering teams make smart decisions about build vs. buy, modularity, service ownership, resilience, latency, cost efficiency, and operational maturity. The goal is not architecture purity. The goal is a platform that lets CCC innovate faster, integrate more easily, serve enterprise customers reliably, and scale AI-powered workflows across many product lines and customer segments.


• Architecture Operating Model: You will build an architecture function that enables teams rather than slows them down. This includes creating lightweight governance, architecture review practices, reusable patterns, reference implementations, decision records, and technical roadmaps. You will mentor principal engineers and architects, raise the technical bar across engineering, and help create a culture where architecture is practical, measurable, and connected to business outcomes.


• Security, Trust, and Responsible AI: You will partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, and Product to ensure CCC's AI and platform architecture is secure, explainable where needed, auditable, pri