Lead Agentic AI Engineer – Enterprise Data Platform (EDP)
Role Overview
The Lead Agentic AI Engineer will define and build the company’s agentic AI capability within its Enterprise Data Platform.
The role owns the agent lifecycle from business use-case discovery through architecture, development, evaluation, deployment, and production monitoring.
The role sets technical direction and standards, remains hands-on, leads and mentors AI engineers, and reports to the Head of Data & AI.
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About MultiBank Group
MultiBank Group is a financial institution headquartered in Dubai, UAE, offering trading products and operating across global markets.
The company describes itself as regulated by financial regulators across multiple jurisdictions.
Role overview
The Lead Agentic AI Engineer will define and build the company’s agentic AI capability within its Enterprise Data Platform.
The role owns the agent lifecycle from business use-case discovery through architecture, development, evaluation, deployment, and production monitoring.
The role sets technical direction and standards, remains hands-on, leads and mentors AI engineers, and reports to the Head of Data & AI.
Agent design and delivery
- Build and deploy single- and multi-agent systems for workflow automation and decision support across business domains.
- Implement tool use, planning, memory, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Integrate enterprise data, CRM, back-office, payment, support, and marketing systems using APIs and MCP servers.
- Identify use cases and success metrics with business stakeholders.
Reliability, platform, and engineering
- Create evaluation frameworks for task success, accuracy, groundedness, regression, cost, and latency.
- Implement guardrails, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, permission scoping, and fallbacks for sensitive workflows.
- Monitor production agents for quality, drift, hallucinations, failures, and misuse; continuously improve them.
- Build and operate AWS agent and LLM workloads; integrate foundation models with attention to quality, cost, and data residency.
- Collaborate on scalability, identity and access, secrets management, observability, and cost control.
- Implement CI/CD, versioning, automated testing, and release practices; create reusable components, SDKs, and templates.
Data, governance, and leadership
- Work with data engineers on curated enterprise data and governed data or semantic layers.
- Define retrieval and knowledge strategies using vector stores, structured query tools, and guarded text-to-SQL.
- Ensure compliance with AI governance, data classification, privacy, and regulatory requirements; keep sensitive data within approved boundaries.
- Provide auditability, traceability, and explainability; contribute to governance standards and approvals.
- Lead and mentor engineers, run design and code reviews, define roadmaps and architecture, and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
Experience and education
- At least 8 years in software, ML, or AI engineering, including at least 2 years building LLM or agentic systems and one production delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers is preferred; technical lead experience is preferred.
- A master’s degree or relevant AI certifications is a plus.
Technical qualifications
- Production experience building LLM-based agents using tool/function calling, orchestration, RAG, memory, or multi-agent workflows.
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks and protocols such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Strands, Claude/OpenAI agent SDKs, and MCP.
- Strong prompt and context engineering, LLM evaluation, and observability experience; understanding of guardrails, prompt-injection risks, and safe tool permissions.
- Strong AWS Bedrock experience, plus Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, Docker, and containerized deployments; ECS/EKS are a plus.
- Expert Python and API/service development with FastAPI or similar; ability to write clean, tested production code.
- Familiarity with open-source ML/NLP libraries and vector databases or search.
- Solid grounding in data pipelines, warehousing, and SQL; Redshift, Snowflake, or Databricks experience is a plus.
- SageMaker or other ML platform services and data-governance tooling experience are advantages.
Domain and leadership qualifications
- Financial services, trading, FX, crypto, or regulated-industry experience is preferred.
- Understanding of AI data privacy, compliance, and risk considerations.
- Ability to deliver independently, lead and mentor engineers, set technical standards, translate business problems into agent designs, and explain AI concepts to non-technical leaders.
Why join
- Build and lead the group’s agentic AI capability and own production delivery across business functions.
- Work with a governed enterprise data foundation and executive sponsorship, shaping AI architecture and governance.
- The employer advertises competitive salary, benefits, professional growth, and a collaborative work environment.
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