AI, ML, Platform Engineering Head

Taguig - Philippines

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Job

Location: Taguig

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President to Vice President

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Our Enterprise Data Office team is looking for experienced professionals to join us in Taguig with the role of AI ML Platform Engineering Head.

In this role you will provide strategic leadership and operational management of the Banks Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) platforms engineering pipelines and data platform services to ensure resilience performance and scalability. You will own platform strategy across DevOps MLOps and DataOps govern SLAs and infrastructure reliability and drive secure compliant adoption of AI/ML technologies in collaboration with governance risk IT and regulatory teams.

Your dream. Our focus.

East West Banking Corporation (EastWest) is one of the largest universal banks in the Philippines and is committed to continuously invest in people and in process product and service enhancements and embrace new ideas to enhance the EastWest experience.

We empower our employees to drive their careers and are committed to provide the runway for them to grow. We value teamwork and individual initiative. Join us and be part of a highly engaged team and a workplace that promotes development and goal attainment.

Whether youre just starting out or already a seasoned professional EastWest can help you unleash your potential and bridge the gap between dream to success.

What the role will entail

Provide executive leadership by defining the vision roadmap and execution of platform and ML engineering to accelerate AI/ML maturity.
Develop and implement AI/ML platform strategy by architecting scalable secure and governed environments supporting the full ML lifecycle.
Oversee enterprise platform operations including SLA compliance incident management and performance monitoring across Databricks and related environments.
Drive engineering excellence and automation by championing CI/CD observability and self-healing systems to ensure reliability and continuous improvement.
Engage stakeholders and cross-functional teams by liaising with Technology Risk Infrastructure and Data Science units to ensure aligned delivery and regulatory readiness.
Support compliance and operational stability by resolving infrastructure issues maintaining monitoring protocols and participating in audits and regulatory reviews.

What were looking for

Bachelors Degree in either Computer Science Data Science Engineering or equivalent; postgraduate studies (MS MBA) in Technology Management or AI/ML preferred.
Preferred credentials include Cloud (Azure GCP AWS) ML Engineering (Databricks TensorFlow MLflow) DevOps (CKA Terraform Jenkins) with ITIL or COBIT awareness for operational rigor.
12 - 15 years in technology leadership roles including at least 5 years in senior/executive management; direct experience managing cloud-based data/ML platforms engineering teams and operations in regulated industries (preferably banking).
Deep expertise in AI/ML infrastructure model lifecycle and cloud-native architectures; proven delivery of enterprise-grade MLOps and DataOps systems; strong knowledge of SLAs KPIs Databricks Kubernetes CI/CD observability tooling and regulatory frameworks (e.g. BSP ISO 27001).
Expert-level communication collaboration critical thinking responsibility results focus strategic thinking problem-solving and innovation; advanced capability in customer focus empowering talents and building a sustainable culture.

What you can expect from joining our team

Career development and training opportunities
Competitive salary package and benefits
Performance-based incentives and recognition programs to reward high-performing individuals
Opportunity to work with industry experts and be mentored by them
Defined career progression paths to guide you in your professional growth

About the Job Location: Taguig Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President to Vice President Work Arrangement: Hybrid Our Enterprise Data Office team is looking for experienced professionals to join us in Taguig with the role of AI ML Platform Engineering Head. In this role you will provide strategic ...