Business Data Automation & AI Senior Manager

About the Role

SAB is seeking a Business Data Automation & AI Senior Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is crucial for enhancing the Commercial and Institutional Banking (CIB) reporting foundation by maximizing the automation of business and regulatory reports. The position aims to reduce manual effort, operational risk, and turnaround time, while also driving the business-side enablement of AI capabilities within CIB, ensuring compliance with the Bank's AI governance framework and Central Bank regulatory requirements.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Senior Manager will improve data quality and consistency across downstream reporting and analytics platforms, enabling more reliable, data-driven decision-making for CIB business heads. This role provides critical delivery capacity to the CIB Data Management function, supporting the Senior Data Management Manager across regulatory, governance, and transformation priorities. The position is instrumental in positioning CIB to capture efficiency gains and new analytics-driven insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Strengthen CIB's reporting foundation by maximizing automation of business and regulatory reports.
• Drive the business-side enablement of AI capabilities within CIB, ensuring compliance with the Bank's AI governance framework and Central Bank regulatory requirements.
• Improve data quality and consistency across downstream reporting and analytics platforms.
• Own and drive the CIB business agenda for the adoption and scaling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics use cases across Corporate & Institutional Banking.
• Identify and prioritize use cases, build business cases, define business requirements, and drive execution in partnership with IT, DMO, and governance functions.
• Own and maintain the CIB AI enablement roadmap, tracking delivery progress and resolving roadblocks.
• Ensure all AI/ML solutions deployed within CIB comply with the Bank's AI governance framework and Central Bank regulations.
• Lead the automation of manual queries and legacy workbooks into production-grade business and regulatory reports using EDW and BI tools (*, Tableau, Denodo).
• Design and execute complex queries to extract large-scale data from the core banking infrastructure (HUB) and the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
• Prepare business and regulatory reports and ensure timely submission.
• Actively uncover data inconsistencies, anomalies, and gaps across consuming downstream systems.
• Drive Data Management, Analytics, and AI-enablement projects jointly with IT, from business case preparation through lifecycle sustainment.
• Act as the primary liaison between CIB Business, IT, and DMO, translating strategic imperatives into technical frameworks and solutions.
• Maintain precise program estimations, build roadmaps, and communicate project status and timelines to key business heads.
• Manage projects through JIRA / Confluence, ensuring transparent tracking and stakeholder visibility.

Qualifications and Experience

• Proven background in financial services, corporate banking, or data management environments, at a senior or managerial level.
• Demonstrable experience leading or playing a principal role in large-scale change and transformation programs centered on data infrastructure, enterprise analytics, or AI enablement.
• 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Information

The salary for this position will be discussed during the interview process.