Lead Director AI Governance Engineering

CVS Health

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Remote

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Work type
Remote
Location
VA
Salary
$144,200–$288,400 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 25, 2026

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Similar $240k
This role $216k
$127k most similar roles pay here $306k

This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $207,371–$272,622 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $240k for comparable roles.

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About CVS Health

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy

CVS Health currently has 88 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $118,450–$284,280 across 84 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Director AI Governance Engineering

Lead Director - AI Governance Engineering will lead a lean engineering team focused on modernizing governance through automation by shifting from manual reviews to registration-driven workflows with built-in controls. The role involves building "governance-as-code" infrastructure, including platform-agnostic SDKs, APIs, and automated tools for risk classification, bias detection, and drift monitoring. You will develop unified intake systems for ML and Generative AI, integrate governance checks into CI/CD pipelines, and establish execution safety patterns for agentic automation. Key technical requirements include expertise in system architecture, Python, data platforms, and Git-based workflows. The position addresses the challenge of maintaining responsible AI guardrails while reducing cycle times in a regulated environment. You will collaborate with security and privacy partners to ensure automated compliance artifacts are generated for audit readiness across various AI use cases.

What you'll do

  • Lead and manage a high-impact engineering team focused on building automated AI governance solutions.
  • Design unified intake APIs and user experiences to automate risk classification and metadata population for AI use cases.
  • Develop platform-agnostic Python SDKs and toolkits to integrate bias, drift, and safety testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Integrate event-driven data ingestion of model artifacts into the enterprise registry to generate audit-ready compliance reports.
  • Implement execution safety patterns and runtime guardrails for internal AI agents in partnership with information security.
  • Translate complex governance and risk requirements into scalable technical solutions and automated controls.
  • Establish automated proof-of-concept lifecycle patterns to accelerate access to approved AI environments.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Master's degree is preferred.
  • 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 automated governance controls.
  • Ability to translate governance or risk requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Experience with Responsible AI concepts including fairness, transparency, explainability, and auditability.

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