Requisition ID: 255610
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Join a purpose driven winning team committed to results in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Purpose
The Head of AI and Agentic Engineering leads the design delivery and enterprise-wide adoption of the full spectrum of applied AI capabilities at Scotiabank: generative AI agentic workflows machine learning and decision science. This role is responsible for translating these capabilities into production-grade solutions that create measurable business value across Scotiabanks global business lines. Working in close partnership with business unit technology leaders enterprise AI and data teams and strategic industry partners this leader ensures that AI and ML solutions are production-ready explainable governed and aligned with Scotiabanks strategic priorities.
What Youll Do
- Lead and grow a high-performing multidisciplinary team of AI engineers ML engineers data scientists full-stack developers and solution architects to deliver production-grade AI ML and decision science solutions at enterprise scale.
- Define and execute the enterprise AI solutions roadmap translating business priorities across Scotiabanks business lines into concrete AI capabilities and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with business unit technology leaders across CB IB GTB GBM Wealth and other business lines and corporate functions to identify prioritize and deliver high-impact AI use cases.
- Design and deliver predictive and prescriptive ML and decision science solutions spanning credit risk modeling customer propensity and attrition prediction fraud and financial crime detection next-best-action optimization and financial forecasting ensuring production quality model explainability performance monitoring and full model lifecycle governance across all business lines.
- Drive enterprise-wide adoption of the full AI and ML capability stack including generative AI agentic workflows ML-powered decision automation and decision science frameworks building education programs best practices and enabling frameworks for both business and technology teams.
- Manage strategic industry partnerships with AI ecosystem partners academic institutions and technology vendors to bring leading-edge capabilities into Scotiabank.
- Represent Scotiabank at industry conferences panels and academic forums to elevate the banks global AI profile and strengthen its ranking as a leading AI-enabled financial institution.
- Drive intellectual property development by contributing to AI-related patents positioning Scotiabank as an innovator and protecting proprietary AI methodologies and solutions.
- Collaborate with the AI Platform and enterprise architecture teams to consume shared infrastructure ensuring solutions align with enterprise patterns and governance frameworks without duplicating platform capabilities.
- In advance of a dedicated AI Platform VP hire take interim stewardship of the enterprise AI Platform advancing its foundational capabilities architecture and adoption to ensure it is fit for purpose for enterprise-wide AI solutions delivery. Transition platform ownership cleanly and completely to the incoming VP upon their appointment.
- Co-shape and contribute to the evolution of enterprise AI and model risk governance standards including Scotiabanks AI Risk Management Guidelines ML model validation frameworks and OSFI regulatory alignment while ensuring all AI ML and decision science solutions are built validated and deployed in full compliance.
- Contribute practitioner insights to the enterprise AI strategy informing platform investment decisions governance evolution and executive roadmaps.
- Champion secure compliant AI development practices and foster a culture of engineering excellence across the team.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads building organizational capability and career growth pathways within the AI solutions practice.
- Champion a high-performance inclusive work environment that attracts and retains top AI engineering talent.
What Youll Bring
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering Statistics Mathematics or a related quantitative discipline; Masters degree or higher preferred.
- Proven track record as a hands-on engineering leader you have personally built and shipped production AI and software systems and lead from the front.
- Deep expertise in generative AI and agentic system design including LLM orchestration RAG pipelines and multi-agent architectures paired with solid grounding in machine learning and statistical modelling spanning supervised and unsupervised learning time series forecasting causal inference and experimental design.
- Demonstrated experience managing the ML model lifecycle in regulated financial services environments including model development validation champion-challenger testing performance monitoring and alignment with model risk governance standards consistent with OSFI E-23 and other banking regulations with the ability to engage model risk and compliance teams as a credible technical counterpart.
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions in regulated environments with a strong understanding of AI governance risk management and compliance.
- Strong ability to engage business stakeholders at all levels translating strategic priorities into technical delivery and communicating complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Experience managing strategic external partnerships with AI ecosystem partners academic institutions and technology vendors.
- Proven success building leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams with a focus on delivery velocity quality and developer growth.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure GCP or AWS) modern AI/ML infrastructure patterns and ML engineering tooling including feature stores model registries experiment tracking frameworks and batch and real-time inference pipelines.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action comfortable with ambiguity and skilled at driving outcomes in fast-moving high-stakes environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop executive-grade communications including Board presentations SteerCo briefings and strategic narratives that drive alignment and investment decisions at the highest levels of the organization.
- Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with senior executives board members and external stakeholders representing the organization with credibility and clarity.
Interested
If your experience is closely related but doesnt align perfectly with every qualification we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!
At Scotiabank every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential respected for who they are and embraced for their differences. Thats why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.
Whats in it for you
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work and life every day. With a focus on holistic well-being our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family financial physical mental and social health needs.
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Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas
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