Executive Director, Chief AI Architect

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services providing the insights and answers that help healthcare providers patients researchers pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes. Through our unparalleled science data technology and laboratory network we advance diagnostics accelerate innovation and help address some of the worlds most important health challenges. As we shape the future of healthcare we are leveraging advanced technologies intelligent digital solutions and data-driven innovation across our operations to enhance how work gets done and deliver greater value to customers and patients. With our global scale and deep expertise youll have the opportunity to do meaningful work grow your career and make a real impact on peoples health around the world. Together were improving health and improving lives.

Labcorp is seeking an Executive Director Chief AI Architect to join our team at Durham NC.

Work Schedule: Work Schedule: Durham NC / Hybrid Full-time Reports to: Chief AI Officer Travel: 40-50%

Job Responsibilities

• Define and lead Labcorps enterprise AI architecture strategy standards and roadmap.

• Drive AI architecture decisions across transformation programs corporate functions and enterprise platforms to maximize business value scalability and sustainability.

• Partner with business product engineering data and enterprise architecture leaders to embed AI capabilities into key initiatives.

• Establish and govern enterprise AI reference architectures reusable patterns and best practices for responsible AI adoption.

• Lead evaluation of emerging AI technologies platform investments and build-versus-buy decisions.

• Ensure AI solutions meet requirements for security governance quality observability and regulatory compliance.

• Measure and optimize AI outcomes including solution quality adoption operational efficiency and cost effectiveness.

• Build and lead a high-performing AI architecture organization while developing AI architecture capabilities across the enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree.

• 15 or more years of experience in enterprise architecture software architecture AI/ML architecture or technology leadership roles.

• 5 or more years of experience in healthcare diagnostics life sciences pharmaceutical payer provider or other regulated industries supporting solutions involving PII PHI compliance and audit requirements.

• 5 or more years of hands-on AI experience including production LLM agentic RAG or AI-assisted development capabilities with direct experience designing and shipping agentic systems in production

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in computer science Artificial Intelligence Data Science or Engineering

• 5 or more years of experience designing and implementing enterprise AI platforms agentic AI systems retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multi-agent architectures.

• 5 or more years of experience with AI orchestration frameworks agent protocols vector databases and multi-model AI ecosystems.

• 5 or more years of experience with enterprise knowledge graph platforms semantic data models ontologies or semantic layer architectures.

Additional Job Standards

• Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise technology strategy through partnerships with Enterprise Architecture business transformation and executive leadership teams.

• Demonstrated expertise evaluating emerging AI technologies architectural patterns and platform investments.

• Ability to establish and drive adoption of enterprise AI standards reference architectures and governance practices.

• Deep knowledge of modern AI architectures including foundation models agentic systems retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) orchestration evaluation frameworks safety controls observability and production operations.

• Strong understanding of LLMOps practices including model and agent lifecycle management AI quality evaluation observability and cost optimization.

• Strong knowledge of security privacy identity and governance requirements for AI solutions in regulated environments including PII and PHI protections.

• Demonstrated ability to assess AI architecture tradeoffs based on business value scalability operational risk production quality and cost considerations.

• Recognized contributions to the AI architecture community through industry speaking publications advisory councils or professional organizations.

• Proven ability to build mentor and lead high-performing architecture teams and communities of practice.

• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits: Medical Dental Vision Life STD/LTD 401(k) Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO) Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours Casual Intern and Temporary employees are only eligible to participate in the 401(k) who are regularly scheduled toworka 7 on/7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO. For more detailed information pleaseclick here.

Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

Labcorp strives for inclusion and belonging in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications and merit of the individual. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) family or parental status marital civil union or domestic partnership status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression personal appearance age veteran status disability genetic information or any other legally protected characteristic. Additionally all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.

We encourage all to apply

If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance using our online tools to search and apply for jobs or needs an accommodation please visit ouraccessibility siteor contact us atLabcorp Accessibility. Formore information about how we collect and store your personal data please see ourPrivacy Statement.