AI Cyber Defense Consultant

Futran Solutions; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Futran Solutions is seeking an experienced business analyst with a focus on AI governance to analyze and translate complex business and technical requirements for end-to-end AI implementations within a major bank.

You will partner with technology and business teams, maintain documentation, ensure compliance with controls and SLAs, and contribute to risk management, governance, and enterprise risk programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent vocational experience with strong analytical focus.
• Ability to understand both business and technical perspectives.
• Strong proficiency in documentation and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and translate business and technical requirements to support AI solutions within the bank.
• Collaborate with technology and business partners to ensure alignment with design and standards.
• Maintain documentation of readiness, SOPs, operating models, and dependencies for scale and handover.
• Support AI governance, risk, and regulatory compliance initiatives and enterprise programs.
• Translate program data into actionable insights and maintain transparency through clear reporting.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Jira

Confluence

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent vocational experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

• Analyze and understand business and technical requirements to support internal and partner teams and the business to stand up end-to-end AI solutions within the bank.
• Work closely with various technology/project teams to understand business' AI needs and provide analysis and requirements to ensure the product/solution design / development initiatives are in line with the planned design and standards.
• Collaborate with technology and business partners to resolve issues and ensure requirements and established SLAs, while adhering to enterprise frameworks or methodologies pertaining to AI lifecycle, enhancement, risk, and governance.
• Ensure business operations follow applicable internal and external requirements (e.g. financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals and physical control of assets).
• Participate in cross-functional / enterprise / initiatives as a subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for complex situations.
• Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.
• Maintain clear documentation of readiness and operational workflows, SOPs, target operating and interaction models, and ongoing business/technology dependencies for scale and handover.
• Support the AI Defence Leadership team in providing high-level and detailed updates across organizational levels, maintain a feedback loop for proactive plan adaptation, and maintain transparence through clear reporting and issues' escalation.

Team and Stakeholders' Responsibilities:

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/points of interest.
• Provide industry knowledge for own area of expertise and participate in knowledge transfer within the team, business unit, and/or cross-functional groups or committees (e.g., AI Governance, AI Vulnerability Management).
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
• Keep others informed and up to date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities.
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices.
• Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.

Reporting Responsibilities:

• Translate program data into actionable insights, managing productivity and performance dashboards to ensure accurate, timely, and impactful reporting.
• Participate in AI app security incident responses relevant to business (or enterprise wide) and represent respective function and Enterprise position to the business, and business needs to incident response team.
• Provide input on AI security-related Regulatory compliance requirements, reporting, and questions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent vocational experience, demonstrating rigorous analytical and quantitative focus.
• Deep understanding of complex technology delivery life cycles and cross-functional coordination across Product, Engineering, and downstream Operations.
• High degree of comfort working in an unstructured environment.
• Highly motivated self-starter who takes ownership of responsibilities and demonstrates leadership qualities in driving initiatives and achieving results.
• Highly effective communicator—concise, clear, and adapted to various audiences.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, Jira, Confluence.
• Building business risk reports and dashboards via Power BI or Tableau.