14 days ago
St. Paul, MN, USASenior

Base Salary

$72k - $134k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Champion the selection, evaluation, and lifecycle management of enterprise AI platforms, frameworks, and tools.
  • Serve as an internal subject matter expert on AI platform architecture, including model lifecycle tooling, containerization, orchestration, vector databases, prompt management, RAG frameworks, and model hosting.
  • Conduct proof-of-concepts and experiments with emerging AI services, foundation models, and developer tools.
  • Guide AI delivery teams in solution design and reuse of approved enterprise AI patterns.
  • Document and coach teams on AI platform standards, best practices, and reference architectures.
  • Partner with Enterprise Technology to ensure AI platforms are secure, compliant, cost-efficient, and operationally resilient.
  • Bridge the AI Center of Excellence with other technical platform teams to support knowledge sharing and adoption of shared practices.
  • Consult with product owners, data scientists, and engineers to identify platform gaps and implement enhancements.
  • Support platform safeguards, governance controls, and enterprise guidelines for responsible and sustainable AI use.

Requirements

  • Strong technical experience across AI, ML, and cloud platform engineering, especially researching, implementing, and onboarding new technologies and tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud environments, with AWS strongly preferred, including AI/ML development, deployment, and data-processing services.
  • Experience deploying, integrating, or supporting production AI/ML systems, including MLOps pipelines, model hosting, and monitoring solutions.
  • Experience conducting proof-of-concept work, evaluating emerging technologies, and translating findings into recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of modern AI stacks, APIs, foundation models, vector databases, orchestration tools, and retrieval-augmented generation patterns.
  • Experience working in or with enterprise architecture, platform engineering, or MLOps functions.
  • Familiarity with AI-specific security, governance, and responsible AI considerations.
  • Experience in financial services or another regulated industry is preferred.
  • Strong collaboration, analytical, communication, and technical-consulting skills are required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of three in-office days per week for associates within a 90-minute commutable distance.
  • Paid time off with additional PTO based on tenure.
  • Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave programs.
  • Nine company-paid holidays.
  • Company-funded pension plan and 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions tied to performance, up to 10 percent of eligible earnings.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible associates and family members from the first day of employment.
  • Volunteer paid time off, company-sponsored events, and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program.
  • Associate Resource Groups supporting professional connections and inclusion.

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Securian Financial Group, Inc.

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