AI Governance Expert

At the Central Data Office (CDO) of ABN AMRO, you help unlock the power of data and contribute to the bank’s ambition to become a Personal Bank in a Digital Age.

At a glance

Do you want to be part of the Data Revolution in the banking industry? Do you have a strong passion for data & AI and do you agree that data is at the core of creating value for customers? Does working in a complex environment energize you? Then come help us unlock the power of data at the Central Data Office (CDO) of ABN AMRO.

You help ABN AMRO to respectfully turn data into value. You ensure that the entire bank follows the correct route towards a fully data driven organisation. From shaping new concepts to designing and guiding data management initiatives, you are able to quickly submerge yourself in a brand-new initiative, shape it and ensure it is properly anchored for successful execution.

Your job

As AI Governance Expert, you drive the overall design and position of governance related to AI topics end-to-end. You define the overall framework of how to turn data into value, while ensuring compliance with external rules and regulations. You have a great passion to look ahead and to zoom out, ensuring that your topics are well embedded in the overall governance design. Together with your Governance & Control colleagues, you become the bank’s SPOC for governance related challenges in your area.

Your results contribute to:

1. The maintenance of the overall governance framework for the different AI topics, ensuring alignment with other governance topics such as Data Quality, Data Distribution and Roles & Responsibilities
2. The AI Act implementation programme and the AI Governance design
3. The establishment of the end-state design through policy, guidelines, and procedures, formalising the goals for ABN AMRO for AI governance
4. Contributing to the Enterprise Control Framework for Data & AI, ensuring transparency on the status of adherence to AI Governance

Furthermore, you are an active contributor to the overall team responsibilities:

• Designing and driving the implementation of processes to formalise Data Management artefacts such as standards and guidelines
• Providing expert guidance and support in adopting Data Management artefacts
• Controlling adherence to the Data Management artefacts
• Running the corporate governance Data Committee
• Driving awareness of Data Governance

This role requires switching context quickly, being action oriented while having strong conceptual capabilities with an understanding of Data Governance and Management, risk management, and the ability to inspire stakeholders to take action.

Working environment

You operate in the following organisation:

• You are part of the Central Data Office – Governance & Control team and you report to the Head of Governance & Control
• You interact with other departments in the Central Data Office and with the 2nd line
• You interact with senior stakeholders in the Data Domain Organisations

Next to your day-to-day work, there is room to think about the future of data & AI and thereby determine the agenda for data in the bank. The team works in an open and transparent way where your opinion is valued and dialogue is encouraged. The team is diverse with regards to culture, experience and age. The atmosphere is lively and informal, closely monitoring a safe environment where everyone is able to share their thoughts, feelings and worries. It is normal to make mistakes and the team aims to help each other grow, as learning is one of its main focuses.

The team you become part of is in constant collaboration with all business units, international branches and subsidiaries of the bank. You work together at the frontier of the largest data revolution in the banking industry and with the core value-assets of the organization.

Your profile

• Bachelor or Master’s degree required, preferably in Artificial Intelligence, Information Sciences, Business Information Management, Business Administration, Data Management, Legal, Compliance or a related field such as Risk Management
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across departments and disciplines
• Good conceptual skills; you get energy from zooming out and zooming into a topic
• Experience in AI Governance, Data Governance, Data Management, with familiarity with AI Act, DAMA DMBOK, Data Mesh, BCBS239, etc.

We are offering

• The Benefit Budget amounts to 11% of your salary. If you do not make any purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop during a month, you will receive one-twelfth of your Benefit Budget for that month as a payout.
• Five weeks of vacation per year, with the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year
• A Personal Development Budget of €1,000 per year, which can be saved up to €3,000
• The possibility to work from home in consultation with your team and depending on your role
• An annual public transport subscription with free travel throughout the Netherlands
• An excellent pension scheme