Vice President, AI Platform Engineering

Requisition ID: 252645

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

Position: Vice President, AI Platform Engineering

The VP, AI Platform Engineering is accountable or building, owning, and operating Scotiabank's enterprise AI platform-a secure, scalable, governed, and reusable foundation enabling GenAI, predictive AI, agentic AI, and automation use cases across all business lines.

This role leads the end to end engineering, operationalization, and lifecycle management of the Bank's AI platform, ensuring consistent delivery patterns, modern MLOps/LLMOps capabilities, model hosting, data/feature access, observability, and integration with enterprise controls. This role will accelerate the Bank's shift from experimental AI to enterprise wide, production ready, risk aligned AI.

Key Accountabilities:

Enterprise AI Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Define and own the AI Platform Strategy, ensuring alignment with the enterprise AI vision, hub and spoke operating model, and modernization roadmap. Translate enterprise AI principles into platform level capabilities spanning model development, training, serving, observability, metadata, pipelines, vector databases, and GPU/compute orchestration.
• Develop and implement the reference architectures and "golden paths" for AI development and deployment, consistent with internal AI engineering patterns and emerging best practices
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure platform designs integrate with crossbank standards, security controls, and cloud architecture

AI Platform Build, Run & Modernization

• Lead the engineering, delivery, and operations of all AI platform components, including: ML/LLM training environments, managed feature stores, Model repositories and registries, agentic AI frameworks etc.
• Own end to end platform reliability, scalability, performance, and availability (SLAs/SLOs), consistent with expectations for enterprise platforms.
• Drive modernization-reducing fragmentation, integrating isolated AI tooling, removing duplicative infrastructures, and future proofing architecture.

MLOps / LLMOps Excellence & Automation

• Establish enterprisegrade MLOps and LLMOps foundations, ensuring standardized, automated:
• Training pipelines
• Feature engineering workflows
• Evaluation, drift detection, and monitoring
• Deployment and rollback patterns
• Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) for models
• Build golden paths that significantly reduce time to production and increase reusability across use cases.

AI Governance, Security, & Risk Alignment

Ensure platform compliance with AI governance requirements including:

• Security controls
• Data classification
• Model risk management
• Privacy and consent o Responsible AI frameworks
• Audit and regulatory expectations
• Partner with AI Risk, Compliance, CDO, and Legal to ensure AI capabilities adhere to enterprise controls

• Build and lead a high-performing data leadership team, develop talent across data engineering, data architecture, and data governance, and foster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank's risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits.
• Communicates the Bank's risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams.
• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank's Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviours; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team

Education & Experience

• 15+ years in engineering leadership with deep specialization in AI/ML platform engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
• Demonstrated experience operating enterprise AI or ML platforms at scale (multi cloud preferred).
• Expert knowledge of: MLOps, LLMOps, model observability GPU orchestration, vector databases, embeddings, agentic AI frameworks Cloud native architecture (Azure, Google Cloud Platform preferred) Data and model governance frameworks
• Track record of leading multi disciplinary engineering teams (100+), preferably in regulated industries.
• Strong executive communication, organizational design, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.
• Limited travel domestically and globally

Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas || Canada : Ontario : Toronto

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.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.