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Since 1973, East West Bank has served as a pathway to success. With over 110 locations across the U.S. and Asia, we are the premier financial bridge between the East and West. Our teams of experienced, multi-cultural professionals help guide businesses and community members on both sides of the Pacific looking to explore new markets and create new opportunities, and our sustained growth and expertise in industries like real estate, entertainment and media, private equity and venture capital, and high-tech help build sustainable businesses and expand our associates’ potential for career advancement. 

Headquartered in California, East West Bank (Nasdaq: EWBC) is a top-performing commercial bank with a strong foundation, an enterprising spirit and a commitment to absolute integrity. East West Bank gives people the confidence to reach further.

East West Bank is seeking a highly experienced Data Science & Advanced Analytics to lead enterprise-scale AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics initiatives that drive measurable business outcomes across the bank.

This role is designed for a hands-on, execution-oriented leader with deep expertise in data-driven decisioning, scalable business analytics, and AI-enabled process transformation within highly regulated industries. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with practical business acumen and has a proven track record building production-grade analytics solutions that improve operational efficiency, revenue growth, customer experience and risk management.

The role partners closely with business, technology, data engineering, risk, compliance, and operations teams to operationalize AI and analytics capabilities across critical banking functions.

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of enterprise AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics solutions across key banking domains including risk, fraud, AML/BSA, customer analytics, cross selling and operational intelligence.
• Drive end-to-end analytics delivery from business problem definition through data engineering, feature engineering, model development, deployment, monitoring, and business adoption.
• Build scalable and production-grade data science and machine learning capabilities leveraging Azure-native and distributed computing frameworks including Azure ML, Databricks, Spark, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Operationalize developed solutions within core business processes and decision workflows to drive measurable business value and adoption.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate models into enterprise systems through APIs, microservices, and modern data platforms.
• Drive model governance, explainability, monitoring, validation, recalibration, and regulatory compliance activities aligned with banking and model risk expectations.
• Establish best practices for tech stack choices, MLOps, model lifecycle management, CI/CD automation, experiment tracking, and production monitoring.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business, risk, compliance, legal, audit, and technology stakeholders to ensure responsible and scalable AI adoption.
• Mentor and lead high-performing analytics and data science teams, including distributed or offshore resources where applicable.
• Translate complex analytical insights into executive-level recommendations and measurable business outcomes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in data science, advanced analytics, AI/ML engineering, or quantitative modeling, including leadership experience within financial services, fintech, insurance, or other regulated industries.
• Proven track record delivering production-grade AI and analytics solutions with measurable business impact in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, machine learning frameworks, statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and distributed data processing.
• Strong practical experience with modern AI/ML tooling and platforms including Azure ML, Databricks, Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, MLflow, and cloud-native analytics ecosystems.
• Experience implementing scalable MLOps frameworks including model deployment, CI/CD automation, model monitoring, experiment tracking, and governance controls.
• Strong understanding of model risk management, explainability, auditability, data governance, privacy, and regulatory expectations within regulated industries.
• Hands-on experience integrating analytics and AI solutions into enterprise applications, APIs, operational workflows, and decision systems.
• Strong process orientation with the ability to redesign workflows and operational models using data-driven insights and AI-enabled automation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive cross-functional execution across business, technology, risk, and operations teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related quantitative discipline.

Highly Preferred

• Direct experience building AI and analytics capabilities within commercial banking, consumer banking, payments, lending, fraud, AML/BSA, or regulatory reporting environments.
• Experience deploying Generative AI, LLM, NLP, or intelligent automation use cases (Lead Generation, Next Best Action, Banker copilot, etc.) in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of SR 11-7, CCAR, CECL, BCBS 239, and enterprise governance frameworks related to AI and model risk.
• Experience designing enterprise feature stores, vector-based retrieval systems, or real-time inference architecture.
• Experience leading enterprise AI transformation initiatives from proof of concept through scaled production adoption.
• Master’s degree or PhD in quantitative discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to build, retain, and scale high-performing analytics organizations.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the United States.  We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.