Director, Data and AI

Role overview Lead the strategy and adoption of an enterprise data and AI platform, helping research, clinical, administrative, and operational teams use trusted data to improve their work. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and turn platform capabilities into measurable outcomes, including better access to data, useful AI solutions, and reduced reliance on outdated tools.

Responsibilities - Set the platform roadmap and oversee its architecture, security, reliability, performance, capacity, and cost management. - Deliver governed, reusable data products and enable analytics and AI use across teams. - Set adoption goals, measure progress, and communicate outcomes such as time saved and legacy tools retired. - Work with stakeholders to understand their needs and reduce friction in access, onboarding, and self-service. - Build training, office hours, communities of practice, and a network of embedded data champions. - Lead and develop data, AI, product, architecture, and solutions specialists; coordinate with institutional leaders.

Requirements - Experience leading enterprise data platforms and setting platform and adoption strategies. - Experience with Databricks and Azure, including lakehouse architecture and platform operations. - Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver shared data products across varied business or research areas. - Strong stakeholder communication skills, including the ability to engage technical and nontechnical leaders. - Experience establishing governance, security, responsible AI practices, and measurable outcomes for data and AI programs.

Nice to have - Familiarity with healthcare data and standards such as EHR systems, HL7, FHIR, OMOP, or DICOM. - Experience with genomics, multi-omics, imaging, high-performance computing, or GPU-enabled research. - Experience supporting secure data sharing, open science, biomedical ontologies, or knowledge graphs. - Training in product management, agile delivery, or organizational change.

Benefits and work setup Remote work may be available from approved U.S. locations. The role requires travel to the Memphis campus for interviews or orientation and approximately one week per quarter, or as business needs require.