AI Platform & Control Tower Lead

Client of Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt is seeking an AI Platforms Lead to oversee the engineering and operation of the bank's AI estate. You will own the architecture, scaling, and integration of AI access across models, agents, APIs and enterprise services, driving standardisation, automation and secure adoption at scale.

You will lead capacity planning, telemetry, incident management, and governance, while mentoring teams to deliver resilient AI-enabled solutions for enterprise needs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in platform engineering, enterprise integration or AI/ML ops.
• Experience leading production AI platforms and model/agent operations.
• Strong design, scaling and governance of shared technology services.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for AI access, integration, and operations.
• Lead API/LLM gateway design, MCP services, and enterprise integrations.
• Set routing, authentication, throttling, versioning, and integration patterns.
• Establish onboarding, configuration, release and retirement processes for models and services.
• Drive capacity planning, telemetry, tracing and cost attribution across services.
• Mentor engineers and drive reliability, automation, and performance improvements.
• Coordinate incident resolution, post-mortems, and disaster-recovery readiness.

Skills

Platform engineering

Enterprise integration

Cloud architecture

DevSecOps

AI/ML operations

Leadership

Banking domain

APIs & gateways

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Client of Salt is seeking an AI Platforms Lead to oversee the engineering and operation of the bank's AI estate. You will own the architecture, scaling, and integration of AI access across models, agents, APIs and enterprise services, driving standardisation, automation and secure adoption at scale.

You will lead capacity planning, telemetry, incident management, and governance, while mentoring teams to deliver resilient AI-enabled solutions for enterprise needs.