Director, AI Enablement

AGFA • Waterloo, ON

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Agfa HealthCare, a division of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is seeking a Director of AI Engineering & Enablement to lead the transformation of its R&D organization. This role will focus on integrating AI-assisted tools into the entire software development and delivery lifecycle, aiming to improve productivity, quality, and team member experience within a regulated environment. The Director will lead by example, through partnership, coaching, and hands-on engagement, ensuring AI adoption is scalable, compliant, and sustainable. This is a hands-on leadership role, not solely focused on policy or tools, requiring deep software engineering credibility to drive measurable improvements. The successful candidate will stay at the forefront of AI technology, ensuring the highest ROI advancements while establishing standards, financial, safety, and security guardrails in an ethical manner. The goal is to fundamentally change how global R&D teams design, develop, test, document, and deliver software products, making AI a default, trusted capability across the entire lifecycle.

Requirements

• Demonstrated credibility with senior software engineering leaders and practitioners
• Extensive hands-on senior software engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to coach & mentor technical team members
• Proven success leading engineering transformation at scale
• Practical use of AI tools in real engineering environments, with proven results, not just experimentation
• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels
• Proven ability to balance innovation, governance, security, and ROI
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position now or in the future.
• Experience in regulated industries
• Experience translating regulatory constraints into engineering practices
• Experience tracking developer productivity metrics

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI-Driven Transformation of R&D
• Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI-enabled software-product design, development, testing, documentation and delivery.
• Establish how AI is applied across the SDLC
• Set clear expectations for AI adoption tied to engineering outcomes
• Start with an AI enablement roadmap and priority pilots within product teams
• Quickly develop metrics to give a clear view of progress and opportunities
• Partner directly with engineering teams, including pairing with product management, architects, developers, testers, technical writers, and program managers.
• Participate in pilots within active product codebases
• Model effective AI usage through hands-on engagement
• Coach teams to adopt AI within their own ownership boundaries
• Establish reusable patterns and playbooks
• Facilitate a rotating, cross-team AI working group
• Rapidly scale successful practices across teams, ensuring teams build on proven approaches rather than reinventing solutions locally.
• Define and govern AI tooling direction for R&D
• Evaluate and approve AI development tools keeping within budget
• Partner with DevOps, Tooling and Security to operationalize tooling
• Partner with Compliance and Legal teams who own policy
• Translate regulatory requirements into practical engineering guardrails
• Define metrics for productivity, quality, and adoption
• Use data to guide strategy and investment decisions

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefit package.
• Career development and growth.
• Thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles.
• Vacation entitlement.
• Paid time off.
• Training and career development programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed