Associate Director, Software Engineering (GenAI Agent Platform)

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering (GenAI Agent Platform).

Business:CTO Platforms (AI Platform)

Location: Shenzhen

Req ID: 57704

Principal responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to define, build and roll out a scalable Generative AI agent platform for priority banking use cases from pilot to production.
• Own the end-to-end platform engineering: design and implement the agent runtime, orchestration, tool/function calling, prompt and workflow management, memory/state handling, and integration patterns—leveraging frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph (where appropriate) while avoiding unnecessary vendor/framework lock-in.
• Establish platform reliability and quality by building in evaluation and testing (offline/online), guardrails, observability (logs/traces/metrics), and clear SLOs/SLAs to ensure accuracy,
• Continuously monitor and optimise platform performance in production, including model selection, prompt/agent tuning, retrieval quality, caching, throughput, and resilience; drive root-cause analysis and preventative improvements.
• Embed security, privacy and compliance by design: ensure controls for data handling, access management, encryption, auditability, model risk considerations, and safe tool use; align to internal governance and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on support: troubleshoot complex issues, support onboarding of delivery teams, create runbooks, and act as an escalation point for incidents and production support.
• Maintain strong platform documentation and enablement: publish reference architectures, APIs/SDKs, templates, best practices, and developer guidance to accelerate adoption and consistent delivery across teams.
• Track and evaluate emerging GenAI/agent capabilities (e.g., new orchestration patterns, evaluation methods, safety techniques, model/tooling advances) and translate them into pragmatic platform enhancements with clear value, risk and cost trade-offs.

Requirements

•    Education & English: Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science/Engineering (or related);
•    Good verbal communication in English.
•    Software Engineering: 3+ years’ hand-on coding practice, strong Python or Java or Golang, with usage of at least one major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP); ability to deploy and operate services in production (Docker/Kubernetes preferred).
•    GenAI / LLM Delivery: 1+ years building and shipping LLM/GenAI applications; knowledge with agentic workflows and tool/function calling (multi-agent systems a plus).
•    SME in at least one area (Performance Monitoring, Agent Governance Control, Agent Identity, Harness, Agent SDK, Agent Policy / Guardrail)
•    Be able to demonstrate a strong vision for the future of agent platforms.
•    Be able to articulate concrete best practices for creating skills, agents, or MCP tooling.
•    Problem-solving & commitment, strong ability to develop creative solutions to complex challenges, working effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
•    Demonstrates an AI-native mindset by applying AI-driven approaches, including coding assistants, to improve productivity, quality, and engineering best practices.
•    RAG/MCP preferred: Practical RAG experience (retrieval, chunking, embeddings, vector databases such as Milvus/FAISS/Elastic/Pinecone)

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