AVP, AI/ML Compliance & Model Validation

Barclays; Wilmington (DE); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Wilmington, DE seeks an AVP in Compliance & AI/ML to independently review and investigate models supporting key business areas. You will perform data analysis, benchmarking, and challenger modelling across compliance models, delivering high-quality validation reports.

Key duties include validating models for regulatory alignment, assessing data quality, governance, and controls, and collaborating with owners, developers and stakeholders to strengthen model risk management practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in model validation and model risk management.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements relating to model risk.
• Experience with statistical, scenario-based and rules-based models.
• Experience developing or validating machine learning models using large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Validate and approve models for specified usages and periodic reviews.
• Assess conceptual soundness, performance, and documentation of risks and weaknesses.
• Evaluate compensating controls to mitigate model risk.
• Document validation findings and recommendations in clear reports.
• Assess coherence of model interactions and large model framework results.
• Design framework to measure and quantify model risk and uncertainty.

Tools

Python

R

SAS

Spark

MLlib

Hadoop

AWS

Job description

Barclays in Wilmington, DE seeks an AVP in Compliance & AI/ML to independently review and investigate models supporting key business areas. You will perform data analysis, benchmarking, and challenger modelling across compliance models, delivering high-quality validation reports.

Key duties include validating models for regulatory alignment, assessing data quality, governance, and controls, and collaborating with owners, developers and stakeholders to strengthen model risk management practices.