AI Lead : Senior Specialist (L4/L5)

About the role

A top-tier consulting firm is building a greenfield digital bank for a Dubai-based client, and we are hiring across the Architecture & Platform Engineering Squad responsible for designing and standing up the bank’s core technology foundation. Stand up the architecture and engineering foundations for a greenfield digital bank. The squad defines and builds the integration layer, cloud and platform runtime, AI platform, and security posture and operates them through to regulatory inspection readiness. Architects set technical strategy and governance; engineers build, deploy and run the systems. Expect to work alongside product, delivery and vendor teams across a multi-quarter horizon to deliver a bank that's secure, scalable, and inspection-ready.

What you'll do

• Own the AI/ML platform strategy and agentic architecture for the digital bank.
• Design and govern the LLM gateway, evaluation framework, and guardrails.
• Prioritise AI use cases and define risk posture for AI-driven decisions.
• Align AI platform with regulatory requirements and inspection evidence needs.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure ML platform is production-grade and observable.
• Maintain AI architecture standards, model governance documentation, and use-case roadmap

What you'll bring

• Proven experience leading AI/ML platform design and delivery in production environments.
• Expertise in LLM integration, agentic frameworks, and RAG architectures.
• Familiarity with ML governance, model risk management, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience operating in regulated industries (banking preferred).
• Strong ability to communicate AI strategy and risk to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent remote-work discipline and written communication.
• English fluency.

Nice to have

• Digital banking experience
• Enterprise platform architecture exposure
• AI/ML platform experience
• Security and compliance knowledge
• Experience with cloud, IaC, CI/CD, or observability tooling
• Experience working in multi-vendor delivery programs

Benefits

• Fully remote global opportunity
• Work on a large-scale greenfield digital bank build
• Collaborate with international consulting and engineering teams
• Exposure to cutting-edge banking and AI technologies
• Opportunity for long-term engagement and leadership growth