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Lead strategy, roadmap, and delivery for enterprise platform products enabling reusable rules, workflows, decisioning, approvals, and orchestration. Drive cross-functional alignment with engineering, architecture, AI Delivery, and security, measure platform adoption and outcomes, reduce technical debt, and build a high-performing platform product team while establishing scalable, AI-enabled product management practices.

Leads strategic sourcing and complex contract negotiations across healthcare categories. Manages the full sourcing lifecycle, including RFPs, supplier selection, implementation, contract maintenance, compliance, and renewals. Develops cost-saving strategies using spend analysis, market intelligence, and financial analysis. Partners with Legal, clients, suppliers, and leadership while presenting recommendations and negotiating outcomes. The role requires five or more years of relevant experience and follows a hybrid schedule with willingness to travel.

Leads complex healthcare supply chain sourcing programs, contracting strategies, supplier negotiations, and multi-year workplans. Analyzes spend, market, and financial data to identify savings opportunities; manages contract implementation, utilization, performance, and compliance. Builds client, supplier, and cross-functional relationships; facilitates executive decisions, drives continuous improvement, mentors colleagues, and oversees risks, milestones, and deliverables.

Designs enterprise AI architecture, standards, governance, and scalable production solutions. Leads generative AI, agentic systems, RAG, machine learning, Azure AI platform adoption, enterprise integrations, security, MLOps/LLMOps, and cost governance. Partners with business, technology, cybersecurity, data, and globally distributed Agile teams to deliver responsible AI solutions from concept through production.

Supports high-volume manufacturing operations by improving processes, tooling, throughput, quality, cost, and equipment reliability. The role conducts root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, automation troubleshooting, lean layout design, tooling and fixture development, SOP documentation, PPAP and FMEA reviews, process validation, and NPI support. Collaboration with Quality Assurance and other departments is required to maintain process capability, product conformity, safety, and industry standards.

Leads multidisciplinary medical device development programs from quotation through validation and design freeze. Manages customer communication, scope, budgets, timelines, quality targets, risks, governance reporting, supplier selection, and financial tracking across multiple sites. Coordinates technical and cross-functional teams while ensuring program delivery meets cost, timing, quality, and risk objectives.

Leads CCC’s enterprise-wide architecture vision across AI, data, cloud platforms, SaaS products, APIs, integrations, and engineering practices. Guides AI-native platform development, data architecture, modernization, scalability, security, responsible AI, and operational resilience. Establishes architecture principles, governance, reusable patterns, and technical roadmaps while mentoring senior technical leaders. Partners with executives, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security, Legal, and Compliance to balance innovation, reliability, customer trust, and business outcomes.

Leads modernization of mission-critical database and .NET systems. Responsibilities include refactoring stored procedures, optimizing SQL performance, evolving schemas safely, extracting business logic into maintainable services, and modernizing legacy .NET code. The role establishes testing, dependency injection, observability, deployment-safety, and incident-response practices while collaborating with SRE and DevOps teams. It requires deep SQL Server expertise and experience maintaining production stability during large-scale software modernization.

Manage and grow key client accounts through relationship building, strategic recommendations, campaign insights, platform expertise, and training. Collaborate with Trading, Business Development, and Product Management teams to onboard customers, expand accounts, improve campaigns, and influence platform enhancements. The role also supports the Client Services practice by creating training materials, best practices, sales materials, and customer-facing guides.

Drive new business and revenue growth across independent advertising agencies by selling Cadent’s digital media, advanced TV, CTV/OTT, and programmatic solutions. Build consultative agency relationships, deliver product presentations, develop strategic sales plans, manage pipelines and forecasts, and collaborate with marketing, product, and solutions teams.

Lead architecture and hands-on engineering for production AI solutions in financial services. Build RAG and agentic workflows, evaluation systems, LLMOps practices, security safeguards, and governed human-in-the-loop processes. Collaborate with clients, engineers, vendors, and risk teams to deliver reusable solutions, mentor technical staff, define implementation roadmaps, and support consulting pursuits.

Lead full-stack engineering workstreams for secure, accessible AI-enabled applications in financial services. Build TypeScript and React interfaces, Python or Node.js backends, human-review workflows, integrations, authentication, authorization, testing, and deployment pipelines. Collaborate with clients, AI and data specialists, risk teams, and vendors; mentor engineers; establish monitoring and support processes; and create reusable digital assets. The role requires direct client collaboration, technical leadership, and delivery of production applications.

Serves as a client and user contact, providing product guidance, addressing inquiries, and supporting adoption. Develops expertise in product functionality and client policies, analyzes feedback and usage trends, identifies improvement opportunities, and communicates actionable insights to internal teams. Proactively helps mitigate engagement and product issues while supporting continuous product development and improved customer experience.

Leads Verizon’s AI Connect sales strategy and performance, focusing on Dark Fiber, high-capacity networking, and AI connectivity solutions. Builds relationships with hyperscalers, data centers, AI vendors, and enterprise technology companies; executes go-to-market strategy; drives profitable revenue growth; and develops high-performing sales teams. The role requires strategic solution selling, alliance management, executive engagement, and cross-functional leadership in a complex matrix environment.

Leads Verizon’s AI Connect business development portfolio for Global Enterprise, with emphasis on Dark Fiber and AI-enabled connectivity. Responsibilities include managing a high-performing team, developing C-suite relationships, executing go-to-market strategy, expanding enterprise partnerships across key industries, driving profitable revenue growth, and collaborating with account teams. The role also requires building business development capabilities, mentoring talent, navigating matrix organizations, and integrating physical fiber infrastructure into enterprise AI connectivity and modernization strategies.

Designs, builds, deploys, and supports enterprise-grade web applications and distributed systems using Microsoft technologies. Responsibilities include C# and .NET backend development, modern front-end development, API and cloud service implementation, SQL performance tuning, code reviews, debugging, CI/CD, and production support. The role also involves ensuring scalability, security, observability, reliability, and auditability across Azure or AWS environments, with preferred experience in microservices, containers, distributed systems, and automated testing.

Designs and implements security controls, threat models, and incident response capabilities for AI and machine learning systems. The role addresses prompt injection, model abuse, data exfiltration, supply chain risks, cloud security, application security, identity, cryptography, and AI infrastructure protection. Responsibilities include security architecture reviews, adversarial ML research, AI application defense, and potentially LLM product red-teaming.