Executive Director, Chief AI Architect

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Durham, NC, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Healthtech • Biotech
The Role
Lead enterprise AI architecture strategy and roadmap, govern reference architectures and responsible AI practices, evaluate emerging AI technologies and build-versus-buy decisions, ensure security/compliance/observability, measure AI outcomes, and build and lead a high-performing AI architecture organization to embed AI across business and platform initiatives.
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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 world’s 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, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real impact on people’s health around the world. Together, we’re 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 Labcorp's 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
  • Bachelor's 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
  • Master’s 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 Plan. Employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours, Casual, Intern, and Temporary employees are only eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan. Employees who are regularly scheduled to work a 7 on/7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO. For more detailed information, please click 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. 


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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 15+ years experience in enterprise architecture, software architecture, AI/ML architecture, or technology leadership roles
  • 5+ years experience in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, pharmaceutical, payer, provider, or other regulated industries supporting solutions involving PII, PHI, compliance, and audit requirements
  • 5+ years hands-on AI experience including production LLM, agentic systems, RAG, or AI-assisted development with direct experience designing and shipping agentic systems in production
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science or Engineering
  • 5+ years designing and implementing enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent architectures
  • 5+ years experience with AI orchestration frameworks, agent protocols, vector databases, and multi-model AI ecosystems
  • 5+ years experience with enterprise knowledge graph platforms, semantic data models, ontologies, or semantic layer architectures
  • Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise technology strategy and drive adoption of enterprise AI standards, reference architectures, and governance practices
  • Deep knowledge of modern AI architectures (foundation models, orchestration, evaluation frameworks, safety controls, observability) and LLMOps practices (model/agent lifecycle management, quality evaluation, cost optimization)
  • Strong knowledge of security, privacy, identity, and governance requirements for AI solutions in regulated environments (PII and PHI protections)
  • 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
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HQ: Burlington, NC
19,796 Employees
Year Founded: 1978

What We Do

We believe in harnessing science for human good. And so we work day and night, around the world, to deliver answers for all your health questions—whether you’re a provider, drug developer, hospital, medical researcher or patient. That means everything from advancing diagnostic testing to helping launch new drugs, to offering new perspectives through data - all drawing from a deep well of scientific expertise. So when you need trusted information to make clear, confident health decisions, consider us your source.

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