AI Science Lead - Everyday Banking & Consumer Finance

WestpacSydneyHybridFull-time1 week ago

Westpac is seeking a Lead AI Scientist to shape and deliver the AI portfolio across Everyday Banking and Consumer Finance. This hands-on leadership role involves translating business priorities into AI strategy and roadmap, leading a team of AI scientists, and ensuring trusted AI solutions from strategy to production. Requires 8+ years in data science and applied AI with senior leadership experience in banking or regulated environments.

What you'll do

Own the EDB and CF AI strategy and roadmap with business leaders and Product Owners, aligned to divisional and enterprise AI strategies and approved capability direction.
Frame and prioritise use cases with clear problems, benefits, success measures, data needs, ownership and risk classification.
Lead technical direction across predictive modelling, optimisation, generative AI and agentic workflows for pricing, credit decisioning, acquisition, retention, engagement and automation.
Ensure end-to-end solution quality across design, experimentation, validation, deployment, monitoring and retirement, with rigorous technical review before release.
Ensure every solution meets Group AI risk policies, embedding privacy, security, model risk, Responsible AI, explainability, fairness, human oversight and operational resilience.
Coordinate AI Science, data engineering, Technology, Product and Risk teams around agreed interfaces, plans and accountable owners.
Monitor delivery, adoption, model performance and realised value, intervening or escalating where outcomes, controls or timelines are at risk.
Build a high-performing, inclusive AI Science team through clear goals, coaching, performance management, development planning and succession for key technical capabilities.
Build reusable models, components and agent patterns across both product lines to reduce duplication and speed up delivery.

What you need

Must-have

Data ScienceApplied AIPredictive ModellingOptimisationExperimentationGenerative AIAgentic WorkflowsMLOps

Soft skills

People LeadershipCoachingPerformance ManagementSuccession PlanningCommercial JudgementStakeholder ManagementCommunicationTechnical Review

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