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**Senior Manager – AI Engineering (GenAI \& MLOps Platform) \- Abu Dhabi** **Discover the Opportunity:** We’re partnering with a major Abu Dhabi\-based financial services organisation that is investing substantial capital into its **AI transformation** , building a world\-class **AI Centre of Excellence (CoE)** to accelerate the development and deployment of AI across the business. As part of this ambitious programme, the organisation is hiring a **Se
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Senior Manager – AI Engineering (GenAI & MLOps Platform) - Abu Dhabi
Discover the Opportunity:
We’re partnering with a major Abu Dhabi-based financial services organisation that is investing substantial capital into
its
AI transformation
, building a world-class
Ai Centre Of Excellence (Coe)
to accelerate the development and deployment of AI across the business.
As part of this ambitious programme, the organisation is hiring a
Senior Ai Engineering Manager
to lead the development of its
Generative AI and MLOps platform
, enabling scalable AI solutions across the business.
This is a highly visible leadership role combining
deep hands-on technical expertise with platform ownership and team leadership
.
You will play a central role in designing the infrastructure, frameworks, and best practices that power conversational AI, agentic AI systems, and enterprise-scale machine learning platforms.
Discover the Role:
Senior Ai Engineering Manager
- , you will lead the development of the organisation’s
- GenAI and MLOps platform
- , ensuring that AI solutions can be built, deployed, and operated at scale.
- Working as part of a rapidly expanding AI CoE, you will oversee a team of engineers and contractors responsible for building the foundational platforms that support AI product development across multiple business lines.
- This role requires a leader who is
- highly technical and hands-on
- , capable of guiding architecture decisions while also contributing directly to engineering and platform development.
- Discover the Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of the organisation’s
- Generative AI and MLOps platform
- , enabling scalable AI deployment across the business
- Build and manage
- modern AI infrastructure
- , including Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks
- Develop and maintain
- platform capabilities for GenAI applications
- , including RAG architectures, model deployment, monitoring, and governance
- Establish
- engineering best practices, tooling, and platform standards
- to support AI engineers building and deploying AI solutions
- Collaborate with
- data scientists, AI engineers, and product teams
- to support the delivery of conversational AI, chatbots, and agentic AI applications
- Lead and mentor a
- team of engineers and contractors
- , ensuring strong technical direction and delivery quality across AI platform initiatives
- Contribute to the
- scaling and evolution of enterprise AI platform capabilities
- as part of the wider AI transformation programme
- Discover the Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in
- AI engineering, machine learning engineering, or data platform engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience building
- MLOps platforms and AI infrastructure
- using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD frameworks
- Experience building and deploying
- Generative AI applications
- , including RAG architectures, conversational AI, or agentic workflows
- Strong cloud experience with
- AWS or Azure
- , including infrastructure-as-code and scalable ML deployment environments
- Proven experience leading technical teams while remaining
- hands-on with architecture and code
- Strong understanding of
- ML lifecycle management, model deployment, monitoring, and governance
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to operate in
- fast-paced, high-impact AI environments
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