Director of AI Engineering – Enterprise Banking

Fifth Third Bank; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank is building a new AI Transformation team in Frisco, TX. We are hiring Directors to lead AI engineering efforts spanning engineering, product, delivery, risk, and executive stakeholder management.

You will lead teams embedding with business partners, translating operational problems into technical AI solutions, and delivering AI-enabled workflows that are governed, measurable, and production-ready.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical teams that build software, data products, AI products, automation, or enterprise platforms.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to separate useful AI applications from novelty.
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of AI engineers across bank domains such as legal, risk, and HR.
• Partner with senior business leaders to identify high-value knowledge-worker workflows.
• Help teams move from vague AI ideas to scoped, buildable, governed use cases.
• Guide the design and delivery of AI agents, copilots, workflows, tools, and knowledge systems.
• Work with business, technology, risk, compliance, legal, information security, and operations partners.

Skills

Technical leadership

Product judgment

Stakeholder communication

Structured thinking

Generative AI knowledge

Regulated enterprise experience

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Copilot Studio

APIs

Workflow orchestration

Knowledge retrieval

Job description

Fifth Third Bank is building a new AI Transformation team in Frisco, TX. We are hiring Directors to lead AI engineering efforts spanning engineering, product, delivery, risk, and executive stakeholder management.

You will lead teams embedding with business partners, translating operational problems into technical AI solutions, and delivering AI-enabled workflows that are governed, measurable, and production-ready.