# root/edge — Director, Data & AI

- Generated: 2026-09-02 09:34:05 AM EDT
- Original/canonical posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4462067842/
- Provider: linkedin
- Posting time: approximately 2026-09-01 07:34 PM EDT (estimated from provider's '14 hours ago' at capture)
- Applicants: 49 applicants
- Work model/location: Location is listed only as United States; no role-specific Remote designation or Massachusetts location was found, so work model is unverifiable; 49 applicants.; provider location: United States
- Compensation: Undisclosed; canonical title contains Director, so missing compensation is allowed with a caveat.
- Travel: Undisclosed; neutral under the fit gate.
- Positioning track: Technical manager
- Fit outcome: FAIL — 90%

## Direct-match strengths

['Strong combination of hands-on AI/data architecture and small-team leadership', 'Direct enterprise data governance, integration, platform-roadmap, and agent-architecture evidence']

## Hard or material gaps

['Work model cannot be verified as remote or Massachusetts-based', 'Azure Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, and Synapse experience is unsupported', 'Formal technology-vendor commercial governance is less directly evidenced']

## Evidence map

1. IDW: owned product vision, technical architecture, roadmap, engineering execution, and production launch.
2. TriMark, MassMutual, and IDW provide direct data warehouse, integration, governance, and AI-platform evidence.
3. IDW: directly managed an 11-person multidisciplinary engineering team, exceeding the three-role management scope.
4. REST APIs and workflow automation are direct; Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps are not documented.
5. AssistX, LangGraph, multi-agent systems, and Responsible AI provide strong agent and prompt-governance evidence.
6. AWS-heavy background is transferable but does not establish the preferred Microsoft data stack.
7. Keith has extensive executive communication and stakeholder-influence evidence.
8. Clean-energy business-process knowledge is unsupported but described as preferred rather than mandatory.

## Full normalized job description

Position Summary
This role owns the technology roadmap end to end, manages all technology vendor relationships, and leads architecture decisions on the data warehouse, integration layer, and AI platform. Platform ownership stays internal rather than vendor held. The role reports to the Chief Strategy Officer and directly manages an Automation Engineer, a Data and BI Analyst, and a CRM and Salesforce Analyst.
Core Responsibilities
Own and evolve the technology roadmap with oversight from the Chief Strategy Officer
Manage all technology vendor relationships relating to the roadmap, including evaluating deliverables, approving phase gate sign offs, and negotiating scope changes
Lead architecture decisions on the data warehouse, integration layer, and AI platform
Directly manage the Automation Engineer, Data and BI Analyst, and CRM and Salesforce Analyst
Serve as the internal technical counterpart to the outsourced IT vendor's Delivery Director, with authority to challenge architecture and delivery decisions rather than simply receive them. Note: this role is not expected to oversee day to day IT management, which remains an outsourced service overseen by the Chief Strategy Officer
Technical Skills and Experience
Azure and Microsoft 365 stack; hands on experience with Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, or Synapse strongly preferred
Data engineering depth, including data warehouse design, ETL and ELT pipeline architecture, and data governance
API integration experience, including REST APIs, Power Automate, and Azure Logic Apps
AI and ML fluency sufficient to evaluate agent architectures, prompt governance, and vendor technical decisions
8 to 12 years of experience; energy, asset management, or financial services background preferred but not required
Strong vendor management track record, as this role evaluates external work and not just internal delivery
Psychosocial Skills, Human Skills, Behavioral Skills
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills
Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to take ideas and run with them from concept to conclusion
Technical understanding of clean energy business processes
Exceptional verbal and writing communication skills with superiors, peers, partners, and other stakeholders
Excellent interpersonal skills while managing multiple priorities in a fast paced and ever changing environment
Excellence in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

## Artifact metadata

- Resume and cover letter: Not generated under the fit gate.
- Archived JD capture: https://files.keithsteward.com/root_edge/Keith_Steward_Director_Data_AI_4462067842_4462067842_JD_capture.md
- Google Drive used: No