Executive Director, Agentic Lab and Architecture Lead - Remote

Job Description Summary This position can be based remotely anywhere in the U.S. (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the Hiring Manager. This position may require 10% plus travel. Job Description Reporting to the ED, Head of Agentic Factory, the Executive Director, AgenticLaband Architecture Leaddefinesthe technical architecture, standards, and innovation roadmap for enterprise agentic AI capabilities. The role leads the Agentic Lab to prototype,validate, and industrialize next-generation AI agent technologies, whileestablishingreusable architectural patterns that enable secure, scalable, governed deployment across the enterprise. Responsibillities: Enterprise agentic AI architecture and standards - Define the technical architecture, reference patterns, and engineering standards for enterprise agentic AI capabilities, ensuring alignment with approved platform, security, Responsible AI, and data governance requirements. - Establishreusable patterns for agent orchestration, memory, evaluation, observability, tool use, RAG, APIs, and integration with enterprise systems. Agentic Lab strategy, prototyping, and validation - Lead the Agentic Lab innovation roadmap, focused on rapid experimentation, technical validation, and controlled incubation of high-potential agentic AI technologies. - Evaluate foundation models, agent frameworks, orchestration technologies, developer tooling, and emerging technical approaches for enterprise applicability. Reusable capabilities, accelerators, and reference implementations - Build reusable proof-of-concepts, accelerators, architectural blueprints, and reference implementations that shorten time-to-value for the Agentic Factory and broader SPT product teams. - Drive adoption of shared technical assets and standards that prevent one-off builds, reduce duplication, and improve scalability across AI agent solutions. Industrialization and transition to enterprise scale - Partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product, Architecture, DDIT, security, and business teams to move validated prototypes into production-ready enterprise capabilities. - Ensure successful transition from lab validation to scaled implementation, including architecture readiness, technical documentation, risk assessment, and operating model handoff. Responsible AI, risk, and compliance by design - Embed Responsible AI, security, privacy, accessibility, data governance, regulatory, and quality expectations into agentic AI architectures and lab validation methods from the start. - Define evaluation and monitoring expectations for reliability, explainability, performance, user safety, human oversight, and business value realization of AI agents. Technical leadership and capability building - Lead, coach, and develop technical talent across agentic architecture and lab activities, fostering disciplined experimentation, engineering excellence, and continuous learning. - Communicate technical direction, architectural decisions, trade-offs, risks, and investment needs to senior stakeholders in clear, executive-ready language. Education: Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, ora relatedtechnical discipline. Required experience: - 12+ years of experience designing enterprise software platforms, AI architectures, data/AI products, or cloud-native engineering capabilities, including executive-level technical leadership responsibilities. - Deep architectureexpertiseacross LLMs, agent frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, vector and graph databases,tool/function calling, memory, evaluation, observability, APIs, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native deployment. - Proven ability to define enterprise reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, technic