AVP, Applied AI & Engineering

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Get to Know the Opportunity

We’re looking for a hands-on Applied AI and Engineering leader to help accelerate the practical adoption of AI across Voya Investment Management. This role will focus on applying AI to real business and technology challenges across Investment Management, including investment research, portfolio analytics, operations, distribution, sales, marketing, and technology delivery.

The ideal candidate will be able to identify where AI can create value, partner with business and technology stakeholders, guide engineering teams toward scalable solutions, and help transform successful AI capabilities into reusable assets across the organization.

You will help bridge Investment Management AI engineering, Data Science, and broader Investment Management technology teams while working closely with AI engineering leaders responsible for agentic platforms, runtime architecture, observability, AI security, and engineering standards. The successful candidate should be equally comfortable discussing investment workflows with business partners, AI solution design with engineers, and business outcomes with senior leadership.

Voya is committed to a flexible workplace model. This role may be remote or hybrid, depending on business needs, candidate location, and alignment with the team’s operating model.

The Contributions You'll Make

Scale AI Solutions Across Business Domains

Ensure AI solutions are designed for scalability, consistency, extensibility, and business adoption across domains.
Promote successful AI solutions across Investment Management and Distribution and expand them into reusable capabilities for related business use cases.
Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and common practices between AI engineering, data science, and business technology teams.
Reuse common assets such as agents, prompt libraries, RAG patterns, evaluation approaches, semantic search, APIs, and workflow automation.

Lead Applied AI Across Investment Management

Build stronger connectivity between domain-specific AI teams while preserving the business context each team requires.
Partner with leaders across investment research, portfolio management, operations, distribution, sales, marketing, and technology to identify practical AI use cases.
Translate ambiguous business challenges into scalable AI-enabled solutions.
Help business teams move beyond AI experimentation toward production-ready capabilities that improve how work gets done.

Promote Engineering Scalability Across IM Technology

Drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across Investment Management technology teams.
Help technology teams use AI to improve software development, data engineering, testing, documentation, support, and operational productivity.
Promote reusable engineering patterns, accelerators, templates, and implementation approaches.
Identify opportunities to apply capabilities built by one team to other areas across Investment Management.
Reduce duplicated effort by turning successful AI implementations into reusable capabilities, shared services, and common engineering practices.
Encourage disciplined engineering practices for AI solutions, including versioning, testing, evaluation, monitoring, documentation, and production readiness.

Provide Hands-On AI Solution Leadership

Stay actively involved in AI solution design, architecture discussions, prototyping, and implementation planning.
Guide teams in applying modern AI technologies such as Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, semantic search, AI agents, and intelligent automation.
Evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and platform capabilities for practical use within Investment Management.
Mentor AI engineers, data scientists, and technology teams on scalable AI implementation practices.
Help teams balance speed, reliability, cost efficiency, maintainability, and business value.

Partner with AI Engineering and Platform Leaders

Work closely with AI engineering leaders responsible for agentic platforms, multi-agent frameworks, runtime architecture, AgentOps, observability, AI security, and engineering standards.
Ensure AI engineering roadmaps remain aligned with Investment Management business priorities.
Help define how AI platforms and reusable capabilities can support multiple teams and use cases.
Promote scalable implementation approaches across platforms such as Microsoft AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Databricks, Snowflake Cortex, Azure AI Services, and related AI engineering frameworks.

Build AI Capability and Talent Across IM

Mentor developing AI engineers, data scientists, and technology professionals.
Help younger AI team members build stronger understanding of Investment Management business workflows.
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