Hiring: AI Platform Director - Data Engineering Company: First Citizens Bank Location: Raleigh, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 13:45:23 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, CI/CD, Data Lake, Data Pipeline, Databricks, Deep Learning, ECS, EKS, Enterprise Architecture, Feature Store, Java, LLM, Lambda, MLOps, Machine Learning, Model Registry, NLP, Portfolio Management, Python, S3, SQL, SageMaker, Scala, Snowflake, XGBoost About the job Experience: •8 years of experience in Information Technology including application development, support roles, and management. •12 years of experience in Information Technology including application development, support roles, and management. •2+ years in AI/ML, data science, or data engineering leadership roles Required Skills: •Own the end-to-end AI lifecycle—from data and model development to MLOps, deployment, governance, and responsible AI compliance in a regulated financial environment. •As a seasoned technology leader, you will bring your expertise in enterprise AI architecture, model operations, and platform engineering to partner with key business, technology, and governance stakeholders—ensuring AI initiatives are responsibly implemented, well-controlled, and deliver measurable value. Qualifications: •Amazon SageMaker (training, deployment, model registry) •AWS Bedrock (foundation models and GenAI use cases) •AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS for model serving •S3, Glue, Snowflake for data pipelines •Define enterprise standards for MLOps, feature stores, and model lifecycle management •Build and maintain integrations with enterprise platforms for data ingestion, metadata management, tokenization, and control evidence generation. •Continuously enhance the platform’s automation, resilience, and observability, ensuring robust end-to-end telemetry for both model and data pipelines. •Partner cross-functionally with Enterprise Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Model Risk partners to embed Responsible AI principles and audit-ready control evidence directly into platform design. •Oversee development of ML models across all business units including Fraud detection systems, Credit scoring and risk modeling, Customer segmentation and personalization, Liquidity related modeling etc. •Lead GenAI initiatives using LLMs for Document intelligence, AI copilots etc. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!