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The AVP Applied AI leads data science and AI capabilities at The Hartford, managing complex AI portfolios and ensuring delivery of business value through scalable models and AI-driven systems. Responsibilities include overseeing team performance, technical direction, AI governance, and alignment with business outcomes, along with collaboration across departments and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead planning, forecasting, and performance analysis for P&C lines; partner with finance, actuarial, and business leaders to provide insights, govern models, automate processes, and prepare executive reporting. Drive assumptions for loss ratios, catastrophes, reinsurance analyses, and earnings prep while mentoring a team and implementing analytics and AI-enabled improvements.

Architect and build production-grade agentic AI systems and platforms using Google ADK, MCP, LangChain/LangGraph, and AlloyDB. Develop agent harnesses, RAG/GraphRAG pipelines, vector retrieval and memory stores, Terraform-based GCP infrastructure, CI/CD for model deployments, and enterprise security and governance for sessioned agent interactions.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, secure software across full stack and cloud. Collaborate with product and architecture teams, mentor engineers, drive best practices, integrate AI-assisted tools, and participate in the full SDLC to ensure system stability and performance.

Lead infrastructure resilience for cloud and SaaS systems by implementing observability, IaC, CI/CD automation, incident triage and self-healing. Build tooling, alerts, AI-driven anomaly detection and runbooks, partner with architecture and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, and security.

Lead development and maintenance of workers' compensation pricing methodologies and tools. Update model parameters, drive pricing initiatives, collaborate with underwriting/product/data science/IT, provide profitability analyses, and support implementation to improve accuracy, segmentation, and profitable growth across business segments.

Lead infrastructure resilience by implementing observability, IaC, automation, and AI-driven detection to ensure cloud and SaaS system stability. Drive tooling, alerts, self-healing, CI/CD optimization, incident triage/restore, and partner across architecture and engineering to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Lead design and build of an enterprise AI platform enabling GenAI and ML solutions: define roadmap, deliver POCs, implement production-grade platform capabilities (IaC, monitoring, FinOps), collaborate with architecture/cloud/security, mentor engineers, and accelerate deployment and scaling of AI use cases.

Lead engineering execution for predictive and applied AI model portfolios across pricing, underwriting, and sales. Build, deploy, and operate ML/AI pipelines and production services in AWS/GCP, support generative and agentic AI initiatives, ensure governance, monitoring, and production readiness, and mentor junior engineers.

The Assistant Director & Associate Actuary analyzes and evaluates actuarial pricing performance and develops state performance metrics. They communicate findings, create analytical tools, and enhance partnerships with various teams to improve organizational capabilities.