Manager, AI Engineering

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, RAG systems, or AI platforms in production environments. Experience working with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift, along with integrating or developing solutions using Claude Code and OpenAI.

Preferred Experience:

• 10 years of experience in software engineering or AI/ML engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing AI development or data science teams.
• Demonstrated experience with Claude (Anthropic), Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent enterprise AI services.
• Experience in banking or financial services is strongly preferred. Middle East experience is an advantage.
• Track record of translating emerging AI research into production-grade products that deliver measurable business value.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of AI engineers; build a high-performing unit with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering, LLM integration, and platform development.
• Foster a culture of experimentation, responsible AI, and knowledge sharing; organize internal demos, hackathons, and learning sessions.
• Collaborate with the Director, IT Architecture & Engineering to align AI platform architecture with the enterprise technology roadmap.
• Act as the Bank’s subject-matter expert on AI/GenAI trends; advise senior leadership on strategic opportunities, risks, and investment priorities.

Strategic Responsibilities:

• Own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of the Bank’s internal AI platform – supporting capabilities including agentic AI workflows, RAG pipelines, conversational AI (chatbots/copilots), prompt management, and model orchestration.
• Continuously scan the AI/GenAI landscape for breakthrough technologies, frameworks, and models (e.g., Claude, GPT, open-source LLMs); evaluate applicability and lead proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Define and enforce AI development standards covering model lifecycle management, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and responsible AI principles.
• Establish integration patterns between the AI platform and the Bank’s core banking systems, data lake, and API ecosystem.
• Drive the adoption of vector databases, embedding pipelines, and semantic search to power knowledge retrieval across the organization.
• Develop vendor and partnership strategies for AI tooling (Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.) to balance innovation with cost and risk.

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