Remote Director, AI Platform & MLOps

First Citizens Bank; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Director to lead the AI platform engineering and enablement functions within our Cloud Data and AI Platform organization. You will own end-to-end AI lifecycle, from data and model development to MLOps, deployment, governance, and responsible AI compliance in a regulated environment.

As a senior technology leader, you will drive enterprise AI architecture, platform scalability, and collaboration with risk, legal, and governance teams to deliver

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 ML, MLOps, distributed systems, and cloud architecture.
• Experience in regulated environments with model governance and auditability.
• Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead AI/ML workloads on AWS, including SageMaker and Bedrock.
• Define enterprise MLOps standards and model lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with risk, legal, compliance and governance teams for Responsible AI.
• Drive data quality, feature engineering standards, and data product governance.
• Mentor engineering leaders and oversee vendor relations for AI tools.

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise AI architecture

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder collaboration

Strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / related field

High School Diploma or GED with extensive IT experience

Tools

AWS SageMaker

AWS Bedrock

AWS Lambda

ECS / EKS

S3 / Glue / Snowflake

Python / SQL

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Director to lead the AI platform engineering and enablement functions within our Cloud Data and AI Platform organization. You will own end-to-end AI lifecycle, from data and model development to MLOps, deployment, governance, and responsible AI compliance in a regulated environment.

As a senior technology leader, you will drive enterprise AI architecture, platform scalability, and collaboration with risk, legal, and governance teams to deliver