Director, AI Vendor Integrations & Standards

Position Purpose: Leads Centene's vendor AI review and integration standards function, accountable for ensuring that third-party and vendor-supplied AI capability entering the enterprise is properly assessed, architecturally suitable for Centene's AI Control Plane, and held to defined integration and interoperability standards over the life of the relationship. Directs vendor AI intake review and technical assessment in coordination with AI Intake, Enterprise AI Governance, Security Risk Management/TPRM, Procurement, and Legal, ensuring AI functionality is disclosed, evaluated, and routed through the required review paths before contract execution or deployment. Determines and documents each vendor solution's suitability to the AI Control Plane across the defined integration points — intake assessment, control adherence, vendor agents running on Centene's agentic framework, vendor agents interacting with LLMs through the Centene AI Gateway, and network-level AI observability. Ensures compliance with Centene's standards for vendor AI integration, including open-standard and protocol expectations such as MCP, model routing and gateway use, telemetry and observability schemas, agent registration, and cost attribution. Owns ongoing vendor AI control plane adherence — monitoring conformance, managing model-change notification, and driving remediation when vendor solutions drift from approved patterns. Leads a team and serves as the enterprise's AI voice in vendor AI evaluations, bake-offs, relationship management, and contract negotiations. Key Details: Centene is going through our biggest transformation in our history to become the market leader, and AI is the key tool to enable the transformation. This is an exciting opportunity to use AI to transform a Fortune 20 company, and to change healthcare for the better! This is a remote role within the United States, requiring business travel 2-3 times per quarter. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Sponsorship and future sponsorship are not available for this opportunity, including employment-based visa types H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, or CPT. Provides leadership and management oversight for vendor AI assessment, integration architecture, and standards conformance across the enterprise AI portfolio. Defines the evaluation methodology and standards, leads the team performing assessments, partners across governance...

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