Data Scientist III - AI Governance & Portfolio Enablement Lead

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Position Overview The Data Scientist III serves as the governance and portfolio enablement lead for Canadian Personal Banking Analytics, Insights & AI, providing first-line oversight of a large portfolio of AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics initiatives. The role is responsible for operationalizing AI governance standards, driving lifecycle progression, coordinating risk and control activities, and delivering portfolio transparency to leadership. Acting as a central point of coordination across business, technology, model development, data, risk, compliance, and governance teams, this role ensures AI initiatives progress efficiently through governance requirements while supporting responsible and scalable AI adoption across the organization.

Portfolio Governance & Lifecycle Management Lead governance oversight for a portfolio of AI and analytics models. Facilitate portfolio prioritization discussions and governance planning activities. Monitor lifecycle progression, governance readiness, dependencies, risks, and milestones across initiatives. Escalate issues impacting delivery timelines, governance reviews, or go-live readiness. Provide portfolio-level visibility supporting leadership decision making. Compliance with Enterprise AI Standards and Risk policy / framework Translate enterprise AI Governance and Risk Management requirements into operational processes and guidance. Support implementation of AI Intake and governance pathways. Partner with Model Risk Management, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, and other control functions to ensure appropriate governance requirements are met. Identify opportunities to simplify and scale governance processes while maintaining control effectiveness. Coordinate across stakeholder groups to remove governance roadblocks and accelerate lifecycle progression. Facilitate governance discussions among business owners, model developers, risk partners, and senior leadership. Influence outcomes and build alignment without formal authority. Support enterprise initiatives involving AI governance, data governance, cloud migration, and transformation activities. Governance Analytics & Reporting Design and maintain governance dashboards and reporting solutions. Develop Power BI reporting and governance visualizations supporting portfolio management and executive oversight. Produce executive-level updates highlighting priorities, risks, issues, capacity concerns, and governance trends. Training, Communications & Change Management Develop governance communications and practitioner guidance materials. Deliver awareness sessions, training, office hours, and enablement activities for AI practitioners. Support adoption of new governance frameworks, standards, and operating models. AI Assisted Productivity Improvement Promote responsible use of AI assistants to streamline recurring governance, reporting, documentation, and coordination activities. Identify opportunities to automate manual steps, reduce turnaround times, and improve consistency of stakeholder communications and portfolio updates.