Remote AI Platform Director, Data & ML Engineering

First Citizens Bank; Arizona; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Director to lead the AI platform engineering and enablement within our Cloud Data and AI Platform org. Responsible for end-to-end AI lifecycle—from data and model development to MLOps, deployment, governance, and responsible AI compliance in a regulated financial environment.

You will partner with business, technology, and governance stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives are responsibly implemented and deliver measurable value in a remote-capable role within

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience building production ML systems on AWS.
• 2+ years in AI/ML, data science, or data engineering leadership roles.
• Strong knowledge of machine learning, MLOps, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead AI/ML workloads on AWS including SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda/ECS/EKS.
• Define enterprise standards for MLOps, feature stores, and model lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with risk, compliance, and governance to embed Responsible AI.

Skills

AWS SageMaker

GenAI/LLMs

MLOps

Model Governance

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT

High School Diploma

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Director to lead the AI platform engineering and enablement within our Cloud Data and AI Platform org. Responsible for end-to-end AI lifecycle—from data and model development to MLOps, deployment, governance, and responsible AI compliance in a regulated financial environment.

You will partner with business, technology, and governance stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives are responsibly implemented and deliver measurable value in a remote-capable role within