Head of Artificial Intelligence
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Professional Experience 15+ years in IT services or banking technology, with at least 5 years in AI/ML delivery or AI product leadership roles. Proven track record delivering production-grade AI solutions in large enterprise banking environments — not advisory or POC work only.
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Professional Experience
- 15+ years in IT services or banking technology, with at least 5 years in AI/ML delivery or AI product leadership roles.
- Proven track record delivering production-grade AI solutions in large enterprise banking environments — not advisory or POC work only.
- Hands-on experience with LLM deployments — open-source models (QWEN, LLaMA, Mistral), prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuning.
- Experience operating embedded at GCC or ME banking institutions; familiarity with Saudi/UAE tier-1 banks preferred.
- Background in at least two of: AI-augmented testing, intelligent RPA, AI for banking operations, conversational AI in financial services.
Technical & Ai Expertis
- **eLLM & AI Platforms:**
- Open-source LLMs (QWEN, LLaMA 3, Mistral) and cloud LLM APIs (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude); vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma); RAG architecture
- **.GPU Infrastructure:**
- VRAM sizing, quantisation (GGUF, GPTQ), inference optimisation (vLLM, Ollama), and on-premise LLM serving
- **.Cloud & Hybrid AI:**
- Hybrid AI architecture design balancing data sovereignty and cloud scale; Azure AI Studio, AWS SageMaker, or Google Vertex AI for MLOps
- **.Banking AI:**
- KYC/AML, credit risk, fraud detection, regulatory reporting automation, AI-augmented testing, and intelligent document processing
- **.Agentic AI:**
- Multi-agent AI frameworks, agentic workflow design, and enterprise AI platform evaluation
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Leadership & Commercial Skil
- lsExecutive presence — able to present AI strategy to C-suite and equally engage ML engineers and delivery team
- s.Strong commercial acumen: ROI modelling, AI-enabled service pricing, and productivity KPI trackin
- g.Experience managing multi-vendor AI delivery environments and third-party tooling agreement
- s.Bilingual proficiency in English and Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic and/or Gulf dialect) — essential for this engagemen
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