Director, AI Platform

Requisition ID: 271982

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Join a purpose driven winning team committed to results in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Global Banking and Markets

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabanks strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.
Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing mergers & acquisitions corporate banking institutional equity sales trading and research fixed income products derivatives energy foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.
Be part of an innovative Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

Purpose

The Director AI Platform is a senior engineering leader responsible for defining building and scaling the enterprise AI platform that enables safe governed and reusable AI capabilities across the organization. This role will lead the delivery of platform services that accelerate AI adoption improve developer productivity and ensure AI solutions are deployed with the reliability security observability and controls required in a highly regulated environment.

You will partner with senior technology data risk security and business leaders to drive the AI platform roadmap engineering execution and enterprise adoption of core AI capabilities including model enablement agentic AI services orchestration evaluation monitoring guardrails prompt and context management integration patterns and responsible AI controls.

What Youll Do

AI Platform Strategy & Engineering Execution:
Define and deliver the enterprise AI platform strategy roadmap and engineering execution model aligned to business priorities technology standards and responsible AI requirements.
Build reusable platform capabilities that enable teams to develop test deploy and operate AI solutions consistently and securely across the enterprise.
Establish scalable frameworks for:
o Model foundation model and large language model enablement
o Agentic AI orchestration workflow automation and tool integration
o Prompt context retrieval and knowledge grounding services
o Reusable APIs SDKs templates and reference patterns for AI engineering teams
Implement enterprise-grade AI platform controls including:
o Secure access identity entitlement and policy enforcement for AI services
o Responsible AI guardrails safety patterns evaluation gates and human-in-the-loop controls
o Auditability traceability model usage tracking and evidence generation
Lead high-performing platform engineering teams setting clear technical direction delivery standards and operating rhythms.
Partner with application data cloud cyber risk and architecture teams to embed AI platform capabilities into enterprise delivery workflows.
Ensure the AI platform supports regulated use cases by design with controls integrated into engineering pipelines rather than applied as after-the-fact reviews.

AI Operations Observability & Trust:
Establish and deliver an AI operations framework that enables reliable measurable and governed AI services in production.
Deliver platform capabilities for:
o Model and agent monitoring performance tracking and drift detection
o Evaluation red-teaming support quality scoring and regression testing
o Cost token capacity and usage observability across AI workloads
o Incident management rollback patterns and continuous improvement of AI services
Embed testing monitoring and governance checks into AI delivery pipelines to ensure trust resiliency and operational readiness by design.
AI Enablement Reuse & Adoption:
Create a platform experience that makes AI capabilities easy to discover consume and reuse across engineering and business teams.
Enable governed reuse through:
o AI service catalogs reusable components and approved reference architectures

o Standard onboarding patterns developer documentation and self-service capabilities
o Reusable evaluation datasets prompt libraries and implementation blueprints
Drive adoption of AI platform capabilities by partnering with product engineering architecture and business stakeholders to convert high-value AI use cases into scalable enterprise patterns.

What Youll Bring

Bachelors degree in computer science engineering information technology data science or a related technical discipline.
Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries with a strong understanding of security risk compliance and operational control expectations.
10 years of technology and engineering experience including 5 years leading platform AI data cloud or enterprise engineering teams.
Hands-on leadership experience with:
o AI machine learning generative AI or agentic AI platforms
o Cloud-native platform engineering APIs microservices CI/CD and infrastructure automation
o Model deployment orchestration monitoring evaluation and operational support patterns
o Strong understanding of responsible AI AI governance model risk security privacy and regulatory expectations for production AI systems.
o Experience designing platforms that support reusable AI services developer enablement observability and enterprise adoption at scale.
o Cloud platform expertise with Azure preferred.
Deep expertise in platform engineering practices AI delivery lifecycle software engineering excellence and operating production-grade services.
Strong understanding of:
o AI security privacy responsible AI model lifecycle management and regulatory compliance in a financial services environment
Proven ability to work directly with engineers architects product leaders data scientists risk partners and senior stakeholders.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate AI platform strategy into clear engineering priorities executive narratives and measurable business outcomes.

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

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: for every future we help our customers their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice products and services including personal and commercial banking wealth management and private banking corporate and investment banking and capital markets.

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