Director-level AI Engineer role focused on owning and managing core merchant data assets and analytical pipelines within the Global Merchant Repository and Merchant Data Platform. The role is responsible for ensuring data quality, availability, and AI/ML readiness, enabling advanced analytics, machine learning, and GenAI use cases by delivering curated, AI-ready datasets. This includes feature engineering, supporting model training/validation/inference, and enabling GenAI features like RAG and embeddings, while enforcing data governance and responsible AI practices.