Senior Principal, AI Delivery & Governance Lead

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WHAT MAKES US, US Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading! WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US We are seeking a Senior Principal, AI Delivery & Governance Lead to drive the delivery and governance of the SMBS AI programme. SMBS is building a live AI ecosystem — agents in production, workflows redesigned, outcomes measured. This is not a strategy exercise — we are building the next generation of our operational engine. This role does not build AI solutions directly — it ensures the conditions are in place for the build team to deliver effectively and for what is built to land with real operational impact. This role owns the AI backlog and solution delivery assurance — governing what gets built and when, translating use case inputs from Ops Intelligence Analysts and Delivery Excellence teams into structured backlog items, and ensuring the build team works on the highest-impact opportunities. This is transformational delivery: systematically replacing manual, judgement-heavy processes with intelligent, scalable AI solutions. With typically 7+ years of experience in programme delivery or technology transformation, this is a role for someone experienced in moving from proof of concept to operational reality. SMBS AI does not operate in isolation. This role coordinates across the full SimCorp AI ecosystem — Product AI, Platform and Infrastructure, AI Search and Knowledge, and Compliance and Legal — aligning standards, resolving dependencies, and leveraging what is being built across SimCorp. It also shapes how SMBS transitions into this next stage, influencing the AI guidelines, governance principles, and ways of working across DMS, IOS, and IAS. WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR In your daily work, you will: Manage the interface between the SMBS AI team and all other SimCorp AI teams, ensuring alignment on standards, dependencies, and shared roadmaps. Maintain the Integration Dependency Register as the single source of truth for cross-team dependencies, blockers, and agreements. Represent the SMBS AI team in cross-company AI governance forums and steering committees. Facilitate the resolution of scope boundaries and overlapping use cases with the Product AI team. Own the AI use case backlog, ensuring use cases are consistently structured, scored, and prioritized using the established evaluation framework. Receive and structure use case inputs from service unit Ops Intelligence Analysts and Delivery Excellence teams. Coordinate sprint planning and release sequencing with the build team. Manage the intake of change requests for agents in production and prioritize them against new development. Prepare board and executive materials related to the AI initiative, including progress reporting, investment tracking, and impact measurement. Manage stakeholder expectations across service units, ensuring transparency on timelines, priorities, and delivery capacity. Drive the compliance and legal whitelisting process for AI tools and models, ensuring tooling is approved before the build team requires it. Ensure the AI initiative remains anchored in the service scalability strategy and does not drift into technology-for-technology’s-sake initiatives. WHAT WE VALUE 7+ years of experience in program management, operational transformation, or service delivery leadership within financial services. Deep understanding of investment operations across Data Management, Investment Operations, and Investment Accounting. Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple teams with competing priorities and without direct authority. Experience managing structured backlogs and prioritization frameworks. Strong stakeholder management and facilitation capabilities at senior and executive levels. You can hold a substantive conversation with AI engineers about agent design, model selection, and deployment trade-offs and translate those conversations into decisions and priorities that non-technical stakeholders can act on. You are a clear and confident communicator who can represent complex AI initiatives to executive audiences. You thrive in ambiguous environments and bring structure and clarity where others see complexity. You have good English skills and are comfortable working in an international, cross-functional environment. You have effective collaboration skills and a bias for organizational alignment over individual delivery. You operate as a senior individual contributor who influences outcomes through structure, clarity, and credibility — not through hierarchy. Your value is in making the system around you work better, not in being the one who executes. BENEFITS Global hybrid work policy — We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose, you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference. Growth and innovation — Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team, or the organization. Self-Direction — High degree of self-organization. Each team member has a high degree of freedom to plan, organize, and design their work. Inclusive and diverse company culture. Work-life balance — We believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of ourselves, both in private life and as colleagues in the workplace. Empowerment — We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes. NEXT STEPS Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks. We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated. WHO WE ARE For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds. SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients. #Li-Hybrid