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The Director, AI & Analytics will lead, architect, and deliver UFCU’s portfolio of strategic, operational, and transformational AI solutions, impacting data usage, AI adoption, and predictive analytics impact across the enterprise. This role is a \"player-coach\" leadership role that requires a rare combination of business influence and deep technical proficiency. This leader will partner across the organization to deliver innovative and data driven solutions and to turn member insights into competitive advantages.\nThis position is an exempt role, reports to the VP, Data & AI and leads the AI & Analytics team. Additionally, this position is based in Austin, Texas. Candidates must be able to work on-site in Austin at least two days per week as part of UFCU’s hybrid work model, with additional in-office time as business needs require.\nAbout UFCU\nOur Credit Union was founded in 1936 and has grown to serve members throughout Texas and beyond. At UFCU, we are more than just a financial institution, and our people are more than just employees. We are dedicated to our purpose of empowering our Members to achieve financial success and build brighter futures.\nIn pursuit of our aspiration that UFCU is loved by millions of Members and built to thrive for generations, we are guided by our values:\nPurposefully Member-Obsessed: We are driven by a profound sense of empathy to deeply understand our Members’ needs and preferences, what brighter futures means to them, and the obstacles in their way. We act in our Members’ best interests, forever seeking to empower their financial success.\nPossibilities Reimagined: We are inspired to courageously experiment, learn, and iterate in pursuit of positive impact for our Members, UFCU, and coworkers. We challenge assumptions, embrace diverse perspectives, and make use of data and insights.\nPerformance Excellence Rooted in Unwavering Integrity: We do the right thing, always. We champion teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and celebrate successful outcomes of others, fostering an inclusive environment of excellence and collaboration.\nEssential Functions\nData and Analytics\nPortfolio Execution: Lead the end-to-end delivery of AI use cases, from \"Next Best Conversation\" models to operational efficiency engines, ensuring they move beyond \"lab\" experiments into resilient production environments\nTechnical Sovereignty: Define the technical standards for AI delivery, influencing IT and Data Engineering teams on the evolution of the Databricks platform, Unity Catalog, and feature store requirements to ensure they meet the needs of modern data science\nMulti-Disciplinary Leadership: Manage and mentor teams across data science, machine learning engineering, and operational business analytics, fostering a culture of \"Delivery over Perfection”\nStrategic Partnership: Serve as the primary \"translator\" between executive business goals and technical execution, ensuring the AI roadmap is prioritized based on business value and ROI. Partner with enterprise business function to manage operational, strategic and transformational AI & AI solutions\nProduction Excellence: Establish CI/CD, MLOps, and monitoring standards for models within the Databricks environment to ensure long-term stability and accuracy\nDevelop and execute the organization’s AI and analytics strategy in alignment with overall business goals\nTeam Leadership and Development\nLead, inspire, motivate, and develop team members by providing guidance and training to attain departmental and individual development goals and support organizational needs\nServe as a role model in transparent communication, two-way dialogue, and proactive communication to the team\nBuild a successful team to operate according to UFCU guiding principles, providing guidance and resources and removing obstacles as needed.\nProvide team leadership based on servant leadership principles, caring for the whole person\nPlan, monitor, and appraise job results with an emphasis on coaching and developing employees to achieve desired performance results\nHelp teams achieve their career goals. Ensure team members understand how to have an impact and are aware of that impact when they've made it\nStrategic Business Partner\nPartner with executive leadership, business units, and technology stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities for AI and analytics, translating business needs into actionable data and technology roadmaps\nCultivate a positive, strong, lasting, and meaningful relationship and connection with others, working collaboratively with peers across the organization\nFacilitate joint brainstorming and team collaboration working closely with peers to aid in creating organizational goals and strategies\nCollaborate with departments across the business, supporting their needs to achieve desired operational results\nCollaborate with business partners to determine future needs and support necessary to achieve business unit strategy\nStrategy Development/Strategic Planning\nCollaborate with senior leaders and actively participate in the organizational strategic planning process\nDevelop AI & Analytics strategies in partnership with executive leadership to drive achievement of Credit Union and department goals\nMonitor and evaluate department progress toward stated goals and make adjustments as needed based on business and department needs\nFacilitate procurement of tools and resources necessary to achieve organizational and department strategic priorities\nBudgetary Oversight/Expense Management\nEstablish AI & Analytics annual budget with identification of planned expenses for new or enhanced programs and services\nEnsure effective control of results. Take action to guarantee achievement of departmental objectives that fall within designated budgets\nMonitor expenses on a monthly basis to evaluate versus budget. Take action to make adjustments as needed based on organizational and department priorities\nCollaborate with senior leaders on development of organizational annual budget in alignment with strategic objectives\nOther\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nAdhere to all organizational policies, procedures, and business ethics codes\nComplete required regulatory training as assigned\nMaintain strict adherence and compliance to all laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and internal controls specific to the role, including but not limited to the Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, USA Patriot Act, OFAC, and Fair Lending regulations\nKnowledge/Skills/Abilities\nTeam Building and Leadership\nProven ability to create a high-performance climate through talent identification, recruitment, and retention\nStrong and demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others\nProven ability to build a team of diverse talents that complement one another\nProven ability to hold themselves to the highest standard of integrity and personal behavior\nBuilding Relationships and Using Influence\nExceptional interpersonal skills with the proven ability to influence senior level management and key stakeholders\nStrong ability to recognize nuances in others and leverage this understanding for a more influential impact on the team\nEffective communicator, listener, and presenter, with the ability to work with various levels of the organization\nAdept at maintaining effective relationships with internal departments external business and community partners, and others key stakeholders\nExecuting for Results\nPossess a proven delivery track record and exceptional service orientation\nAdept at translating the mission of the organization into actionable, quantitative plans\nPossess high levels of energy and persistence\nRigorously holds oneself and others accountable for achieving high levels of individual and organizational performance\nBusiness Acumen\nSeasoned tech and people leader with experience managing multi-disciplinary teams (data science, MLE, and analytics) to bring complex products to production\nDeep, hands-on experience with the Databricks ecosystem\nExpert knowledge of translating business goals to analytic objectives and demonstrated creative problem-solving ability\nExceptional collaborative communication skills, to include written, verbal, interpersonal, and active listening\nConsistently able to evaluate decisions in terms of impact to the business\nAbility to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences\nCombination of technical knowledge, business acumen, and organizational leadership skills\nTechnical Skills\nDatabricks Mastery: Extensive experience leading teams within the Databricks Lakehouse architecture\nDeep familiarity with Spark (PySpark), Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and MLflow\nAI/ML Lifecycle: Deep understanding of the full ML lifecycle, including data engineering/wrangling, feature engineering, model training, deployment (real-time/batch), and model drift monitoring\nProven ability to influence IT and Platform Engineering teams on infrastructure needs, such as cluster management, workspace security, and environment automation\nModern Tech Stack: Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Git. Experience with automated testing, containerization, and orchestration tools in a cloud environment (Azure/AWS)\nCore Competencies\nDelivering Member Obsession\nSeeks to understand customers\nIdentifies customer service issues\nDrives member-focused practices\nAssures member satisfaction\nDelivering Performance Excellence\nMaintains focus\nMeasures progress and outcome\nEnsures accountability\nDelivering Innovation\nInspires curiosity\nChallenges current thinking\nSupports experimentation\nAdvances ideas to the next stage\nDelivering Empowered LeadershipDevelops direction\nBuilds team trust\nIdentifies opportunities to share responsibility\nInforms the team\nSupports the team\n\nExperience\nMinimum Requirements\nBachelor’s degree, with a major in Data Science, Econometrics, Computer Science, Operations Research or relevant field or equivalent experience.\nMinimum of ten (10) years of related experience in Data Science, AI & Analytics.\nMinimum of seven (7) years of management and supervisory leadership experience developing and leading teams with direct reporting relationships.\nExtensive experience in modern data science platforms - Databricks preferred.\nMust be bondable\nPreferred Requirements\nMaster’s degree in Data Science, Econometrics, Computer Science, Operations Research\nMinimum of five (5) years of demonstrated strategic leadership experience\nExperience working in a Credit Union or financial services industry\nExperience in managing multiple teams across AI, data science & Analytics delivery\nCertifications, i.e. Databricks Machine Learning Professional OR Databricks Data Engineer Professional, Cloud Architect certification (Azure/AWS/GCP), or equivalent\nPhysical Demands\nThe physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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