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Senior Lead – AI Governance
About Swift
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. The world relies on us to move value—across borders, through cities, and beyond. Our decade-and-a-half legacy ensures resilience, trust, and precision in an era where scalability and precision define financial operations.
Beyond that, we’re about innovation with purpose. Since our inception, we’ve thrived on solving complex financial challenges. Today, we run globally: operating in 200+ countries and territories, trusted by 12,000+ banks and financial institutions, innovating responsibly, and driving technological progress in a rapidly evolving economic landscape.
About the Role
The AI and Transaction Data Governance squad crafts governance practices for AI and transaction data while building organisational AI literacy. Your mission: enable Swift to adopt AI safely, ethically, and effectively.
As AI Governance Senior Lead, you’ll:
- Align with a strategic team to shape Swift’s AI governance agenda.
- Translate high-level priorities into actionable outcomes.
- Collaborate across engineering, data science, product teams, compliance, legal, risk, and security to foster responsible innovation.
Think of yourself as the navigator driving AI adoption at scale—bridging complexity with clarity and setting principals for a trustworthy, equitable, and high-performance AI ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership
- Define and refine AI governance direction, balancing regulatory compliance, business needs, and control frameworks.
- Scope and prioritiise major AI initiatives aligned with company values and risk appetite.
2. Complex Delivery
- Partner with business use case owners across broad scopes—managing dependencies, setting priorities, and minimising risks to sustain project momentum.
- Ensure transparency and cohesion across rapidly evolving AI demands.
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3. Cross-Team Alignment
- Coordinate between product, data science, engineering, legal, compliance, security, and risk teams to unify AI standards and strengthen responsible innovation culture.
4. Quality and Standards
- Drive improvements in governance quality through framework development, review processes, and operational rigour.
- Champion scalability and consistency in AI governance maturity across Swift.
5. Capability Building
- Mentor teams, lead collaboration growth, and train key stakeholders to nuances of AI governance for collective empowerment.
6. Accountability and Resolution
- Hold stakeholders accountable to timelines, keep risks visible, and resolve roadblocks affecting project success.
7. Ethical AI
- Uphold fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI system design and use.
- Help identify biases, ethical dilemmas, and long-term societal impacts of AI decisions.
8. Monitoring and Reporting
- Develop systems to track AI usage, performance metrics, and compliance with internal governance.
9. External Engagement
- Represent Swift in industry forums, AI advisory groups, and partnerships to stay at the forefront of trends and best practices.
Ideal Candidate: Who You Are
✅ Proven governance expert: Can drive AI governance tangibly while simultaneously shaping its framework in ambiguous terrains. ✅ Fluid multi-team collaboration: Adept at managing cross-functional dependencies, versus solely collaborating with a single department. ✅ Inspiring communicator: Skilled at leading workshops, training sessions, and strategic led discussions that bind diverse stakeholders. ✅ AI & regulatory lenses lenses: Deep collaboration with AI, global AI regulatory landscapes, and evolving standards. ✅ Deduce ambiguity: Translate complex AI risks, regulatory demands, and operational constraints into actionable, all-round frameworks.
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What Swift Offers
- Career Growth: Dynamic, innovative environment where progression and fresh challenges are built into the DNA.
- Competitive Compensation & Benefits: A salary and benefits package that reflects the global scale and impact of your role.
- Performance-Driven Culture: Top performers are acknowledged, accelerated, and rewarded.
- Global Impact: Influence financial systems around the world, ensuring security and efficiency for the 21st-century economy.
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements and a supportive workspace where teams thrive beyond D-I-Y HR.
Diversity & Inclusion
We welcome uniqueness. Swift is built on the idea that difference drives excellence—whether you align with a prevailing perspective or challenge it, your contribution is valuable.
All interviews remain inclusive and accessible. If you need support (vision, hearing, neurodiversity, etc.) during recruitment, please contact accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com directly. Your accommodations will remain strictly confidential and won’t affect your chance at this role.
Not every requirement essential? Swift celebrates whole-hearted commitment and rigour over ideality. If this role excites you, apply confidently—we’d love to hear from you.
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