svp / executive director - ai governance for risk management.

about the company

Our client is a premier multinational financial institution renowned for operating one of the most advanced engineering ecosystems in global banking. Recognized for aggressive technological modernization, the institution pairs enterprise-grade digital infrastructure with forward thinking governance models to support rapid, large scale deployment across international markets.

about the job

This role sits with the Group Risk Management Function and it is an enterprise-level technical governance role designed to look at AI safety, platform architecture, and operational resilience. Partnering product engineering and core platform units, you will establish technical standards, safety boundaries, and defensive controls for production AI workloads across the bank.

key responsibilities

• Lead the definition of concrete technical guardrails across predictive models, generative systems, knowledge retrieval pipelines, and autonomous agent workflows.
• Act as a credible technical voice during architectural review boards, evaluating platform blueprints and identifying design vulnerabilities prior to production release.
• Translate overarching institutional risk tolerances into practical engineering parameters—addressing runtime monitoring, identity and execution privileges for autonomous systems, output validation, telemetry feeds, and boundary controls.
• Continuously stress-test emerging paradigms (multi-agent coordination, reasoning models, foundation model tool use) against technical safety benchmarks to keep institutional policies ahead of technology release cycles.
• Serve as the technical expert for internal governance committees, audit reviews, and regulatory supervisory engagements regarding algorithmic accountability and system stability.

skills and experience required ...