Assistant Vice President – Enterprise Data & AI Governance

Great Eastern; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern is seeking a seasoned Data & AI governance professional to design, develop and maintain governance artefacts that align with regulatory requirements and strategic objectives across the Group.

You will refine governance, drive data literacy, and enforce PM practices while supporting subsidiaries to maintain consistency with Group standards. A degree plus extensive experience in data/AI governance and project management in financial services is required.

Qualifications

• Degree from a recognized tertiary institution with at least 8 years of experience in data/AI governance.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on governance, PM, audit or compliance in insurance/financial services.
• Detail oriented, analytical with strong problem solving and organizational skills.
• Strong understanding of project management principles, including risk and gate reviews.
• Experience with IT service management is a plus; PMP certification is advantageous.
• Experience with data architectures, Hadoop, cloud, data warehouse, AI/ML landscape.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain data and AI governance artefacts to meet strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Support communication strategies to raise data literacy, control and management obligations across the Group.
• Refine and operationalize governance to ensure clear ownership and accountability across the Group.
• Enforce Group Data & AI project management practices and processes.
• Perform oversight and support country and subsidiaries to align governance practices and standards.

Skills

Data governance

Project management

Audit/compliance

Stakeholder management

Regulatory awareness

Change management

Data architecture understanding

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in a relevant field

8+ years data/AI governance experience

PMP Certification

Tools

Hadoop

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Data Warehouse

AI/ML concepts

Job description

The role is part of Group Data Management & Governance, to operationalise data and AI initiatives and support data & AI governance across the Group.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Design, develop and maintain data and AI governance, and data management artefacts (e.g. framework, policies, standards and guidelines) to ensure relevancy and up-to-date to meet the organization’s strategic objectives and business needs, as well as be aligned to regulatory requirements.
• Support the department’s communication strategy, programs and initiatives to raise the overall data literacy, data control and data management obligations across the Group to enable intelligent workforce.
• Refine and operationalize the various aspects of data & AI governance to effect proper ownership and accountabilities across the Group.
• Enforces Group Data & AI project management practices and processes.
• Perform oversight and support country and subsidiaries to ensure alignment of governance practices, data management obligations and standards.
• Degree from recognized tertiary institution with at least 8 years of working experience where at least 3 years of hands‑on experience in data and/or AI governance, project management, audit or compliance in insurance or financial services industry.
• Detail oriented and analytical, with good problem solving, project management and organizational skills.
• Good understanding of the principles of project management, e.g. project risk management, project control gates etc.
• Strong change management skills and/or experience in organization transformation programs.
• Experience in operationalizing processes an added advantage.
• Experience in IT Service Management an added advantage.
• PMP Certification an added advantage.
• Exposure and understanding on data, architecture diagrams and up-to-date on data and technology landscape (e.g. Hadoop, cloud, data warehouse, AI and ML)
• Good team spirit, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.

How You Succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Who We Are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of AA- by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern’s asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia. Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

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Work Locations

SG-GE Centre

Job

Data and AI