Senior Director, AI Data Enablement & Strategy

Fitch Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovation and Growth

Enterprise Impact

Professional Development

Job summary

Fitch Group is seeking an AI data enablement leader to join the Chief Data Office (CDO) in our New York or London office. You will shape the CDO's AI data strategy and ensure enterprise data capabilities evolve to support AI initiatives and scalable, trusted usage by AI applications and agents.

Reporting to the Chief Data Officer, you will lead the AI data enablement program, engage with governance and security stakeholders, and drive outcomes across Fitch's data platforms and roadmaps with a

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of relevant experience across data and AI, including significant experience leading complex enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience designing or delivering AI-ready enterprise data capabilities, including semantic layers, knowledge graphs and ontologies.
• Strong practical understanding of modern AI technologies, including generative AI, large language models, retrieval approaches and agentic AI.
• Deep understanding of enterprise data capabilities, including data platforms and products, metadata, data quality, governance and modern data architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to translate AI use cases and emerging technologies into enterprise data, technology and operating-model strategies and requirements.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives, influence senior stakeholders and drive execution across organizational boundaries.
• Strong strategic, analytical and communication skills, combined with sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with technical partners and communicate effectively with executive and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the CDO's AI data enablement strategy and roadmap, establishing how enterprise data capabilities must evolve to support Fitch's AI ambitions and where AI can accelerate and improve CDO data programs.
• Define and advance Fitch's approach to AI-ready data, including the capabilities and patterns needed to make enterprise data trusted, accessible, well-understood and usable by AI applications and agents, including machine-readable context and semantics.
• Translate enterprise AI needs into data requirements and priorities, partnering across CDO, Emerging Technology, Software and business AI teams to anticipate needs and embed them into relevant roadmaps.
• Identify and drive opportunities to apply AI across CDO data capabilities and processes, including data operations, data governance, master data management, and others.
• Lead targeted experimentation with emerging AI and data technologies, validating high-value approaches and establishing a path from proof of concept to scalable adoption.
• Serve as the AI subject matter leader and senior advisor within the CDO, staying current on emerging technologies and translating developments into practical implications, opportunities and recommendations for Fitch's data strategy.
• Partner with Data Governance, Emerging Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security and other stakeholders to ensure AI data capabilities appropriately address security, compliance, data rights, intellectual property and governance requirements.
• Own outcomes and execution of the CDO's AI data enablement agenda, establishing measurable objectives and providing clear visibility into progress, dependencies, risks and decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Communication

Job description

Fitch Group is seeking an AI data enablement leader to join the Chief Data Office (CDO) in our New York or London office. You will shape the CDO's AI data strategy and ensure enterprise data capabilities evolve to support AI initiatives and scalable, trusted usage by AI applications and agents.

Reporting to the Chief Data Officer, you will lead the AI data enablement program, engage with governance and security stakeholders, and drive outcomes across Fitch's data platforms and roadmaps with a