Data Scientist III - AI Governance & Portfolio Enablement Lead

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Job Description:

Position Overview

The Data Scientist III serves as the governance and portfolio enablement lead for Canadian Personal Banking Analytics, Insights & AI, providing first-line oversight of a large portfolio of AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics initiatives. The role is responsible for operationalizing AI governance standards, driving lifecycle progression, coordinating risk and control activities, and delivering portfolio transparency to leadership.

Acting as a central point of coordination across business, technology, model development, data, risk, compliance, and governance teams, this role ensures AI initiatives progress efficiently through governance requirements while supporting responsible and scalable AI adoption across the organization.

Primary Responsibilities

Portfolio Governance & Lifecycle Management

• Lead governance oversight for a portfolio of AI and analytics models.
• Facilitate portfolio prioritization discussions and governance planning activities.
• Monitor lifecycle progression, governance readiness, dependencies, risks, and milestones across initiatives.
• Escalate issues impacting delivery timelines, governance reviews, or go-live readiness.
• Provide portfolio-level visibility supporting leadership decision making.

Compliance with Enterprise AI Standards and Risk policy / framework

• Translate enterprise AI Governance and Risk Management requirements into operational processes and guidance.
• Support implementation of AI Intake and governance pathways.
• Partner with Model Risk Management, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, and other control functions to ensure appropriate governance requirements are met.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and scale governance processes while maintaining control effectiveness.
• Coordinate across stakeholder groups to remove governance roadblocks and accelerate lifecycle progression.
• Facilitate governance discussions among business owners, model developers, risk partners, and senior leadership.
• Influence outcomes and build alignment without formal authority.
• Support enterprise initiatives involving AI governance, data governance, cloud migration, and transformation activities.

Governance Analytics & Reporting

• Design and maintain governance dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Develop Power BI reporting and governance visualizations supporting portfolio management and executive oversight.
• Produce executive-level updates highlighting priorities, risks, issues, capacity concerns, and governance trends.

Training, Communications & Change Management

• Develop governance communications and practitioner guidance materials.
• Deliver awareness sessions, training, office hours, and enablement activities for AI practitioners.
• Support adoption of new governance frameworks, standards, and operating models.

AI Assisted Productivity Improvement

• Promote responsible use of AI assistants to streamline recurring governance, reporting, documentation, and coordination activities.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual steps, reduce turnaround times, and improve consistency of stakeholder communications and portfolio updates.
• Support adoption of AI-enabled productivity tools while aligning to enterprise standards, data handling expectations, and human oversight.

Critical Success Factors

• Maintain a comprehensive view of the AI portfolio and governance landscape.
• Build strong relationships with business, technology, governance, and risk partners.
• Anticipate governance bottlenecks before they impact delivery.
• Influence decisions without direct authority.
• Translate complex governance requirements into practical business processes.
• Deliver actionable insights through analytics and executive reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence within governance processes.

Why This Role Exists

This role exists to ensure AI and analytics initiatives can scale responsibly while maintaining alignment to governance, risk, and control requirements. The position serves as the connective tissue between AI delivery teams and governance stakeholders, providing the operating discipline, transparency, and coordination required to manage a growing portfolio of AI assets effectively.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.  

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process 
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
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We look forward to hearing from you!

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