Director, Rapid Execution Delivery (RED)

Role Responsibilities

Lead the engine that delivers Alberta’s most urgent AI-enabled solutions—turning high‑value government priorities into secure, scalable products at unprecedented speed while safeguarding public trust.

As the Rapid Execution Delivery (RED) Director, you will lead the Government of Alberta’s enterprise rapid‑execution AI delivery function, transforming urgent ministry needs into production‑ready digital solutions that improve services, strengthen operational efficiency, and accelerate modernization. This role oversees multidisciplinary teams, applies frontier AI engineering practices, and ensures every solution meets the highest standards of security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible AI governance. The position “converts the most urgent government priorities into secure, scalable, production-ready AI-enabled digital solutions at a pace that materially improves service delivery”.

You will be responsible for

• Driving rapid AI solution delivery by leading multiple concurrent teams to turn urgent government priorities into secure, production‑ready digital products that deliver measurable value in short timeframes.
• Building and maturing an AI application factory, establishing reusable patterns, technical frameworks, DevSecOps practices, and shared delivery systems that increase throughput and reduce duplication across ministries.
• Embedding responsible AI, privacy, cybersecurity, and governance safeguards into every stage of delivery to ensure human oversight, risk mitigation, compliance, and public trust.
• Shaping cross‑government demand by engaging senior leaders, clarifying high‑value problems, guiding discovery and prioritization, and providing clear, plain‑language advice on feasibility, risks, and implementation options.
• Leading people, vendors, and resources in a high‑intensity delivery environment, setting expectations, developing talent, managing budgets and contracts, and fostering a psychologically safe, accountable culture.
• Ensuring adoption, sustainment, and operational readiness so solutions move beyond prototypes in short timeframes into real-world use with service ownership, documentation, monitoring, and support pathways in place.
• Measuring performance and value realization, tracking cycle time, throughput, quality, user satisfaction and operational impact, and using evidence to continuously improve delivery models and safeguards.

The Job Description is provided for Further details on this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

Systems Thinking: Connects ministry priorities, AI governance, platforms, data, privacy, cybersecurity, architecture, procurement, people, funding and operations into coherent delivery decisions.

Creative Problem Solving: Solves novel delivery, AI, ethical, technical and policy problems where precedent may be incomplete and the technology landscape changes rapidly.

Drive for Results: Accountable for rapid delivery of visible priorities, measurable value and production outcomes under time pressure and high risk.

Build Collaborative Environments: Succeeds through cross-ministry partnership and integrated delivery across many specialized functions.

Develop Self and Others: Grows scarce AI delivery capability and establishes a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning and responsible experimentation.

Agility: Operates in emerging technology, changing priorities, compressed timelines and evolving policy/risk expectations.

Qualifications

Required:  Post-secondary education in computer science, information technology, engineering, public administration, business, data science, artificial intelligence or related, PLUS 5 years related experience in progressively responsible leadership roles in digital, technology, AI, data, product, or enterprise delivery environments.

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of 1 year of education for 1 year of experience, or 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

For Example:
Related 1 year certificate PLUS a minimum 10 years of experience
Related 2-year diploma PLUS a minimum 9 years of experience
Related minimum 11 years of experience

The successful candidate MUST have:

• Extensive leadership experience in digital, software, data, AI, product, or enterprise technology delivery.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams in large, complex organizations.
• Experience operating in regulated or public‑sector environments with privacy, cybersecurity, procurement, finance, accessibility, and accountability requirements.
• Senior-level understanding of AI-enabled solution delivery, generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, document intelligence, and AI operational risk.
• Strong grasp of end‑to‑end software delivery, agile/iterative methods, DevSecOps, APIs, cloud/hybrid platforms, testing, monitoring, and release management.
• Ability to build delivery factories, reusable patterns, governance checkpoints, and value‑realization measures.
• Demonstrated ability to balance urgent delivery demands with risk, compliance, stewardship, and long‑term enterprise outcomes.

Assets:

• Experience with agile fb frontier AI tools, coding agents, automation‑assisted engineering, or agentic orchestration
• Background in enterprise modernization, reusable architecture patterns, or large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience leading rapid‑execution or accelerated delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate under high public, executive, technical and reputational risk.
• Experience working across ministries or large federated organizations.
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous or politically sensitive priorities into executable delivery plans.
• Senior‑level Systems Thinking, Creative Problem Solving, Drive for Results, Collaborative Leadership, Agility and talent development.
• Graduate-level education in AI, data science, engineering, public administration, or business.
• Certifications in agile delivery, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, privacy, product management, or DevSecOps.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

Term of Employment: Permanent, FT

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Location: Commerce Place 10155 102 St NW, Edmonton AB T5J 4L6

Cover Letter: Please provide a cover letter outlining your skills, knowledge and experience as they relate to the role

Written Assessments: Candidates may be required to complete an assessment to further evaluate their skills, knowledge, and experience related to the role.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. 

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service.
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) 
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information.
• Professional learning and development.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.