POSITION TITLE: Vice President, Data & AI
STATUS: Exempt
COMPENSATION RANGE: $228,000 - $240,000 Annually with up to 20% annual bonus potential
LOCATION: Based out of our beautiful West Creek Office, located at 12580 West Creek Pkwy, Richmond, VA 23238.
REPORTS TO: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Position Summary
The Vice President of Data & AI is accountable for establishing, governing, and advancing Virginia Farm Bureau’s enterprise data and analytics capabilities through a federated data strategy, while developing responsible artificial intelligence capabilities over time.
This role owns data as a strategic enterprise asset—setting standards, governance, platforms, and guardrails—while enabling business domains to retain ownership and accountability for their data through defined Data Domain Councils and stewardship models. The VP ensures enterprise consistency, trust, and regulatory compliance without centralizing all data delivery or decision-making.
The VP of Data & AI partners closely with executive leadership, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, and business leaders to ensure data and AI investments deliver measurable value, scale responsibly, and align with Farm Bureau Tech’s platform-led operating model.
Key Responsibilities
Federated Data & AI Strategy
- Define and execute a federated enterprise data and AI strategy that balances centralized standards and platforms with distributed domain ownership.
- Establish clear enterprise data principles that empower business domains while ensuring enterprise-level trust, security, and interoperability.
- Act as the executive accountable for data and AI outcomes across the enterprise, regardless of organizational placement.
Enterprise Data Governance & Stewardship
- Own enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and oversight mechanisms.
- Lead Data Governance Councils and domain-based stewardship models that assign clear data ownership within business areas.
- Ensure consistent data definition, quality, classification, lineage, and lifecycle management across federated data domains.
- Partner with Audit, Compliance, and Cybersecurity to ensure data practices meet regulatory and legal obligations.
Data Engineering & Shared Platforms
- Lead enterprise data engineering and platform teams responsible for shared data infrastructure, integration, analytics tooling, and enablement.
- Provide common, reusable data and analytics platforms that business domains leverage while maintaining ownership of their data products.
- Ensure enterprise data platforms are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
Artificial Intelligence Enablement (Federated by Design)
- Establish enterprise AI governance, standards, and guardrails to support responsible and compliant AI use.
- Enable business-led AI use cases through shared platforms, tooling, and policies rather than centralized solution ownership.
- Guide prioritization of AI initiatives that deliver measurable business value and align with data readiness and governance maturity.
Executive Partnership & Enterprise Alignment
- Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on data, analytics, and AI opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Partner closely with the Director, Enterprise Architecture to align data platforms, integration patterns, and AI capabilities with the broader technology ecosystem.
- Translate complex data and AI topics into actionable guidance for leadership and business stakeholders.
Organization & Talent Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop high-performing teams across Data Governance, Data Engineering, and AI functions.
- Enable success of federated, business-embedded data resources through standards, coaching, and shared delivery models rather than direct control.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and enterprise-first thinking across centralized and federated teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in data, analytics, or technology roles with enterprise-scale responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience delivering data platforms and governance in a federated or hybrid operating model.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, analytics platforms, integration patterns, and data security/privacy requirements.
- Experience operating in regulated environments such as insurance, financial services, or healthcare.
- Proven ability to influence outcomes across business and technology leaders without relying solely on centralized authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience leading multiple teams or functions across governance, engineering, analytics, or AI.
- Experience implementing federated data ownership models using councils, stewards, or domain-based accountability structures.
- Experience establishing or scaling AI capabilities in an enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with modern data cataloging, lineage, and governance tools used to support federated data strategies.
Key Competencies
- Executive leadership and enterprise stewardship
- Strong governance mindset balanced with enablement
- Systems-level and platform-oriented thinking
- Ability to influence and align federated teams
- Translation of data and AI complexity into business value
Success Measures
- Trusted, well-governed enterprise data assets across domains
- High adoption of shared data platforms by federated teams
- Improved data quality, consistency, and transparency enterprise-wide
- Responsible, business-led AI use cases enabled by enterprise standards
- Strong alignment between data, architecture, security, and business strategy
BENEFITS OVERVIEW
At VA Farm Bureau, we provide an exceptional benefits package, including ongoing job development and support in all roles, paid training and continuing education reimbursement, medical and dental insurance available on your first day, generous employee 401K contribution, excellent Paid Time off (PTO) plan and more!
Virginia Farm Bureau Companies provide equal employment opportunity in all aspects of employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, disability, orientation or veteran status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in data, analytics, or technology roles with enterprise-scale responsibility
- Experience delivering data platforms and governance in a federated or hybrid operating model
- Strong understanding of data architecture, analytics platforms, integration patterns, and data security and privacy requirements
- Experience operating in a regulated environment such as insurance, financial services, or healthcare
- Ability to influence outcomes across business and technology leaders without relying solely on centralized authority
- Advanced degree
- Experience leading multiple teams or functions across governance, engineering, analytics, or AI
- Experience implementing federated data ownership models using councils, stewards, or domain-based accountability structures
- Experience establishing or scaling enterprise AI capabilities
- Familiarity with modern data cataloging, lineage, and governance tools
What We Do
Nearly a century ago, Virginia Farm Bureau made the state’s farmers a promise – to protect and preserve what they’d labored so hard to create. A promise to do our part to ensure a bright future for our children, and our children’s children. Today that promise extends beyond farmers. And when you’re with Virginia Farm Bureau, you have an important role in upholding it. The Virginia Farm Bureau family of companies includes: • Virginia Farm Bureau Federation • Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. • Benefit Design Group Inc. • Employee Benefits Corporation of America • Countryway Insurance Co. Virginia Farm Bureau Federation is a membership organization focused on supporting and growing Virginia agriculture. Membership includes access to exclusive leadership programs, commodity representation, agricultural marketing and business development assistance, products, insurance and other services. Since 1950, Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. has been protecting our members’ interests. We offer auto, home, farm and life insurance and more. We strive to be a leading insurer for all Virginians while remaining the foremost provider to Virginia's farmers. Employee Benefits Corporation of America is among the largest marketers of group insurance plans in the mid-Atlantic region and provides a variety of health care products and carriers. Benefit Design Group Inc. is a licensed and bonded third-party administrator providing sales, service, billing and administrative support for more than 400 brokers and 2000 employer groups in the Mid-Atlantic region. Countryway Insurance Co. sells products through a network of independent agents in eight northeastern states, Virginia and Kentucky. We focus on the needs of farms and rural communities. Virginia Farm Bureau is based in Richmond, Va., with over 1,000 employees throughout the state and on the Eastern Seaboard. We’re a community-oriented company deeply rooted in every county across the state, and we're expanding!
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