Agentic AI Solutions Director

Agentic AI Solutions Director

Vaco is actively seeking an Agentic AI Solutions Director for a direct‑hire role supporting a nationally respected, technically focused, and rapidly growing organization in St. Louis.

The senior level AI leader will define and operationalize enterprise AI strategy within a highly regulated environment. This role blends architectural vision, agentic design, AI tool delivery, and effective business alignment. The Director will design and oversee the development of AI‑enabled solutions across an enterprise environment primarily built on AWS, though Azure and Microsoft Copilot are also utilized. This role will ensure scalable, compliant, and secure deployment of generative AI and agentic systems that drive measurable business value across the enterprise.

• Define and execute the enterprise roadmap for generative AI, agentic systems, and intelligent automation by designing scalable reference architectures across AWS‑dominant environments with hybrid Azure capabilities.
• Establish guardrails for LLM usage, RAG, orchestration, and workflow automation, and drive disciplined build‑vs‑buy decisions across Bedrock, Copilot, SaaS AI, and custom pipelines.
• Lead the design and oversight of autonomous and semi‑autonomous AI agents integrated with enterprise data, APIs, and workflows, establishing standards for prompt engineering, orchestration, memory management, evaluation, monitoring, and continuous feedback to ensure performance, reliability, and controlled risk.
• Embed governance frameworks suitable for highly regulated environments by ensuring model risk management, auditability, explainability, data lineage, access controls, governance, data leakage prevention, and AI output validation in partnership with Legal, Risk, and Compliance.
• Oversee AI platform capabilities across AWS and Azure ecosystems by standardizing testing, benchmarking, observability, cost governance, and secure integration with enterprise data platforms and core systems.
• Support cross‑functional AI initiatives across engineering, product, data, and business teams by translating strategic opportunities into scalable solutions, mentoring technical resources, and advising executives on AI investment prioritization, value realization, and long‑term capabilities.

• 10 years of progressive enterprise technology leadership experience, including at least 2 years architecting cloud solutions with demonstrated oversight of generative AI and LLM‑based systems in production settings.
• Previous experience operating within regulated environments with a deep understanding of compliance‑driven architecture, model lifecycle management, foundation models, retrieval‑augmented generation, agent orchestration patterns, secure enterprise integration, and data governance and privacy controls.
• Expertise in hybrid cloud strategy spanning AWS and Azure, including governance of Copilot and enterprise AI enablement initiatives, coupled with working knowledge of AI risk management frameworks, observability, cost modeling, performance benchmarking, and executive-level communication aligned to strategic investment decisions.

• Employment Type:
  
  Direct‑Hire with Client
• Primary
  
  Schedule:
  
  Monday – Friday / 8a – 5p (CST)
• Location:
  
  Fully Onsite – St. Louis
• Target Total Compensation: $190k – $250k
• Travel:
  Up to 20%
• Engagement Status:
  Applicant must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment‑based sponsorship (including H‑1B, L‑1, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, F‑1, J‑1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment‑based visa programs).

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign‑born residents, and veterans to apply.

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union…