Your role and responsibilities

The AI Governance Lead will serve as IBM Consulting Australia's principal technical authority on trustworthy, responsible, and explainable AI. You will lead the AI Governance practice, advising strategic clients on how to build, deploy, and operate AI systems that are explainable, fair, transparent, and compliant with emerging Australian and global regulation. You will work as a hands-on technical leader and thought partner — able to get deep into the mechanics of a model and equally comfortable presenting to a senior executive audience.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Lead IBM Consulting Australia's AI Governance practice, building technical frameworks and client offerings that address explainability, fairness, transparency, and accountability across the AI lifecycle.

• Design and implement model explainability solutions — including post-hoc explanation methods (SHAP, LIME, counterfactual explanations), intrinsically interpretable architectures, and causal inference-based approaches — tailored to regulated industry contexts.

• Architect AI fairness and bias detection pipelines: audit datasets and model outputs for demographic parity, equalized odds, and disparate impact; design remediation strategies aligned to client risk appetite.

• Develop and operationalise AI governance frameworks — risk taxonomies, model risk management processes, AI impact assessments, and monitoring dashboards — leveraging IBM watsonx.governance and open-source tooling.

• Translate the rapidly evolving global AI regulatory landscape (EU AI Act, Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard and guardrails for high-risk AI, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) into practical, industry-specific compliance postures for Australian clients across financial services, healthcare, government, and energy.

• Conduct applied AI governance research: monitor academic literature, regulatory developments, and industry standards; synthesise findings into client-ready thought leadership, white papers,



and practice assets.

• Partner with AI engineering teams to embed governance by design — integrating fairness constraints, explanation generation, and audit logging into MLOps pipelines and model deployment workflows.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert in client engagements, RFP responses, and executive briefings — articulating complex AI governance concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Contribute to and represent IBM at external forums, industry bodies, standards committees, and academic partnerships relevant to responsible AI in Australia.

• Mentor junior practitioners and data scientists in responsible AI methods, building internal capability and a culture of governance-first AI development.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning recent information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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📌 AI Governance Lead (Sydney)
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📍 Sydney