Executive Manager - AI Science, Mortgages

WestpacSydneyHybridFull-time1 week ago

Westpac is creating a new Executive Manager AI Science role for Consumer Mortgages, based in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane with hybrid working. The role owns the Mortgages AI strategy and roadmap and requires 10+ years in data science and applied AI with recent hands-on practice in a highly regulated financial services domain.

What you'll do

Own and maintain the Mortgages AI strategy and roadmap with product leaders, aligned to divisional and enterprise AI strategies, priorities and approved capability direction.
Partner with product leaders to frame and prioritise use cases with clear customer problems, users, benefits, success measures, data needs, delivery ownership and risk classification.
Provide technical direction across predictive AI, optimisation, document intelligence, generative AI and agentic systems.
Be accountable for solution quality from problem definition and experimentation through validation, implementation, monitoring and retirement.
Ensure every use case meets Group AI risk policies and guidelines, embedding privacy, security, model risk, Responsible AI, explainability, fairness, human oversight and operational resilience from the outset.
Connect portfolio priorities with enterprise AI, data, technology and operating capabilities, agreeing interfaces, acceptance criteria, implementation plans and accountable owners.
Monitor delivery, adoption, model performance, control effectiveness and realised value, intervening or escalating where outcomes, controls or timelines are at risk.
Build reusable patterns and grow the broader AI Science practice through shared standards, technical review, coaching and knowledge sharing.

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Predictive modellingExperimentationOptimisationModel validationMLOpsLLMOpsLLMsDocument intelligence

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MortgagesCreditLending decision science

Soft skills

Executive influenceCommunicationPeople leadershipCoachingRisk mindsetJudgement

AI ScienceData ScienceMortgagesBankingFinancial ServicesLeadershipGenerative AIMLOpsHybrid

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