AI Engineering Safety Lead - Vice President

Job Title: AI Engineering Safety Lead

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Cary, NC

Who we are

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview

This role leads the engineering design and scale‑out of AI‑enabled developer workflows with embedded safety, security, and quality controls. It is accountable for end‑to‑end AI engineering safety outcomes, including Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) engagement, definition of bank‑wide safety and agentic coding standards, and the security analysis and mitigations that govern tool introduction at scale. The role owns critical‑path security assessments and embeds governance and control requirements directly into delivery workflows and operating processes. It establishes continuous compliance, audit‑ready evidence, clear accountability, and strong observability through logging, metrics, dashboards, escalation paths, and incident playbooks. The role partners with senior stakeholders to balance innovation with stability, translating engineering and business needs into scalable solutions while tracking impact through data‑driven KPIs across delivery speed, quality, risk, and developer experience.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Lead design and build of AI-enabled developer workflows and platform capabilities, hands-on where needed
• Own end-to-end delivery from prototype and controlled evaluation to production rollout and scaled adoption across teams
• Drive consistent adoption and standardization of engineering practices across teams (patterns, templates, reusable components, runbooks)
• Ensure solutions are secure, safe, reliable, observable, and production-ready
• Own critical-path deliveries for security assessment of tools under evaluation, including analysis of security concerns and mitigation strategies that determine what and how we introduce tools at scale

How You’ll Lead

• Lead CISO/ Chief Security Office (CSO) engagement from the engineering side, driving decisions and outcomes and translating security requirements into practical, enforceable engineering guardrails
• Lead bank-wide enablement of AI security standards as they apply to AI-enabled software engineering
• Lead bank-wide enablement of agentic coding standards (safe autonomy patterns, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, approvals, and operational safeguards)
• Own critical-path deliveries for security assessment of tools under evaluation, including analysis of security concerns and mitigation strategies that determine what and how we introduce tools at scale

Skills You’ll Need

• Strong engineering background with ability to engage hands-on when needed (architecture, code reviews, prototypes, production readiness)
• Proven experience leading delivery of complex engineering initiatives from prototype to scaled adoption across multiple teams/domains
• Experience driving adoption and standardization across teams (platform rollouts, workflow change, practice uplift)
• Experience leading outcomes with information security stakeholders and translating security requirements into enforceable engineering controls and standards. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across engineering leadership and control partners
• Experience working within enterprise constraints (security, compliance, risk), including governance and audit expectations. Ability to balance innovation with stability, safety, and quality, using clear boundaries and measurable criteria

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Track record of delivering measurable outcomes using telemetry and evidence (quality, vulnerabilities, reliability, adoption, DevEx)
• Strong interest in modern tools, with demonstrated experimentation and continuous learning
• Comfort operating with direct access to telemetry and analysis capabilities to drive evidence-based decisions on approvals, guardrails, and scaling

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the ____ office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in Cary is $125,000 to $222,500. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

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