Vice President, Data Scientist – AI Hub

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

Recognized as a top destination for innovators, BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #Life AtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Data Scientist – AI Hub to join our AI Hub team. This role is located in Manchester.

Why this role (for builders):

• High autonomy to shape solutions and drive work from idea to adoption.

• Work on AI capabilities that touch core financial operations used across global markets.

• Tackle complex, real world problems where reliability and trust matter.

• Bring strong craft—clean reasoning, clear evaluation, high quality system design.

• Help define reusable patterns, standards, and emerging best practices across the platform.

• Gain platform visibility through demos and cross function collaboration.

• Join a high calibre team at the intersection of AI, engineering, and financial systems.

• Explore, prototype, and elevate successful ideas into firm wide capabilities.

• Own outcomes end to end with production reliability and observability.

• Grow as a systems thinker and lead new initiatives as our platform evolves.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Lead complex, end to end AI solution development. On BNY’s AI platform ELIZA—from problem shaping and experimentation to deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact.

• Provide technical direction to pods; guide prioritization, trade offs, and architecture decisions across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Governance.

• Design and embed responsible AI practices into solutions—clear evaluation methods, transparency standards, risk controls, and human oversight patterns—while helping shape the AI Hub’s responsible AI framework.

• Partner with platform teams to deliver scalable, observable, secure capabilities; establish drift/quality monitoring and cost aware performance.

• Mentor juniors; uplift engineering quality via documentation, reusable accelerators, and communities of practice.

• Contribute to AI Hub standards, reference architectures, and platform components.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Engineering/Management (advanced degree preferred).

• Significant experience delivering AI/ML in enterprise environments with proven ownership of multi phase or multi pod programs.

• Deep applied experience across LLMs/NLP, agentic systems, retrieval architectures, robust evaluation, and enterprise grade delivery.

• Demonstrated ability to simplify complexity, set technical direction, and drive outcomes across teams.

• People leadership: Experience leading junior staff and matrixed contributors; proven mentorship and quality bar setting.

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• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025

• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025

• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

• BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
• Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.