Title:  Head, AI Semantic Modeling

Requisition ID: 255624

 Salary Range:  -  

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

Scotiabank is seeking a visionary leader to serve as the Head of AI Semantic Modeling, guiding the development and implementation of semantic capabilities that will drive transformative AI adoption across our organization. This role is pivotal in aligning our data strategies with cutting-edge AI technologies, ensuring our data assets are leveraged for innovation and strategic advantage. A core mandate of this role will lead Scotiabank's efforts to design, deploy, and manage the semantic layer that underpins AI capabilities. This role ensures our data is not only trusted but also semantically rich, enabling machines and humans to interpret data effectively for decision-making across diverse business areas.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement the enterprise-wide semantic layer, aligning it with AI capabilities.
• Ensure semantic assets are machine-consumable and policy-aware, supporting AI use cases such as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and decision-making workflows.
• Influence senior management on integrating semantic strategies into AI roadmaps, driving innovation in data-driven AI solutions.
• Lead the development of platforms that support semantic data modeling, metadata management, and lineage tracking for scalable AI applications.
• Oversee modernization efforts to replace outdated systems with robust semantic platforms.
• Foster a culture of excellence in engineering across global teams, ensuring consistent application of semantic principles.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise standards and frameworks governing AI use cases, including explainability and audit trails for regulatory reporting.
• Implement governance strategies that align semantic capabilities with risk management practices to support compliant AI deployment.
• Build a high-performing engineering organization focused on semantic data solutions, attracting and retaining top talent with innovative opportunities.
• Shape enterprise architecture and strategy in alignment with the bank's AI vision, ensuring seamless integration of semantic capabilities.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders across Data, AI, and Technology, influencing strategic decisions through data-centric insights.
• Represent our engineering efforts in regulatory and organizational forums, contributing to global best practices in semantic layer development.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in data modeling or semantic layer design, with a focus on large regulated organizations.
• Proficiency in AI/ML, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), DevOps, metadata management, and governance frameworks.
• Experience designing scalable solutions for AI semantics, including feature and metric definitions.
• Strong understanding in conceptual, logical, physical, and semantic data modeling.
• Advanced SQL and strong command of analytics and AI data consumption patterns, including LLM and ML workloads.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (Azure or AWS) and lakehouse architecture.
• Experience building batch and streaming data pipelines and AI-ready data products.
• Strong understanding of metadata, lineage, access control models, and AI governance.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile delivery practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / engineering, data science, or mathematics / statistics
• Master’s degree in, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science or related technical field is preferred.

Interested?

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank! 

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture. 

What's in it for you? 

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs. 

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Location(s):  United States : Texas : Dallas

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

Scotiabank is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.