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A large insurer is standing up a dedicated function to police the AI features bundled into its third-party vendors, treating vendor-embedded AI as a governed enterprise risk that must route through a central 'AI Control Plane' with mandated protocols, gateways, and observability.
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.
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At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives — and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.
Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.
Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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