Senior Software Engineer

Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad is seeking a Delivery & Platform Architect within the Innovation Lab to drive the enterprise AI platform transformation. You will own integration patterns, API specs, and secure interfaces, ensuring scalable onboarding for internal and vendor-built solutions.

You will lead governance readiness, risk oversight, and production handover from pilot to scale, while shaping investment cases with accuracy in technical scope and costs.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years spanning delivery leadership, digital transformation, or technical program management.
• Experience owning technical solutions from MVP/pilot to production-scale deployment in regulated environments.
• Experience coordinating vendor relationships and RFI/RFP processes for fintech or AI/automation solutions.
• Connective role between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and governance bodies in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform's integration strategy end-to-end, translating objectives into patterns, APIs, and interfaces.
• Shape AI adoption across the bank by defining onboarding for agents, bots, and AI services.
• Lead technical evaluations in market scans and RFI/RFPs with governance and cost considerations.
• Translate policy into practice with risk/compliance to embed controls and audit readiness.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Platform architecture

Vendor coordination

RFI/RFP process

Cloud-native architecture

DevSecOps

Governance & risk

Communication

Agile / Lean

Tools

REST APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Job description

Drive the enterprise AI platform's transformation agenda — turning strategic intent into a platform that internal teams and vendors can build on with confidence.

Delivery & Stakeholder Management

Act as the technical owner inside the Innovation Lab — the person business stakeholders, vendors, and engineers all rely on to keep MVPs moving from idea to working prototype.

• Own the platform's integration strategy end-to-end — translate business and regulatory objectives into integration patterns, API specifications, and service interfaces that let internal and vendor-built solutions plug into the platform consistently and securely.
• Shape how AI capability gets adopted across the bank — define the onboarding pathway for new agents, bots, and AI services, whether built internally or delivered by external vendors, so adoption scales without creating fragmentation.
• Lead technical evaluation within market scans and RFI/RFP processes — assess vendor and fintech solutions for integration complexity, scalability, and fit against the transformation roadmap, partnering with the Innovation/AIC team on business and cost evaluation.
• Translate policy into practice — work with Risk/Compliance to convert enterprise AI governance policy into enforceable technical controls embedded in the platform, keeping the platform audit-ready as regulation evolves.

Governance & Risk Oversight

Keep leadership and governance bodies ahead of delivery risk — no surprises at checkpoints, no last‑minute scrambles before scale-up.

• Maintain a live view of progress across all active MVPs — track delivery status, integration blockers, and technical risk against timelines, and elevate early to the CTO and relevant stakeholders.
• Own governance checkpoint readiness — ensure MVPs arrive at AIC governance reviews with the architecture, documentation, and controls already in place, so checkpoints move at the pace of the business, not the paperwork.
• Push back where the plan doesn't hold — flag technical or delivery risk candidly, and challenge scope or timelines when the underlying design won't support them.

Production Readiness & Business Case Ownership

Own the handover from pilot to production, and make sure the business case that follows is built on accurate technical ground.

• Prepare MVPs for enterprise rollout — produce the documentation, integration specifications, and runbooks needed for a clean handover from pilot to production‑scale deployment.
• Inform the investment case — supply accurate technical scope, infrastructure, and integration cost estimates to support post‑MVP business cases led by the Innovation Hub.

Architecture Oversight (Technical Foundation)

The credibility behind the role: enough hands‑on architecture depth to earn trust from engineers and challenge vendors, even though the day‑to‑day is business‑and delivery‑facing.

• Cloud‑native architecture and integration patterns — REST, event‑driven, and protocol‑based integrations (e.g. MCP/function‑calling equivalents), applied well enough to sanity‑check designs, not necessarily to build them personally.
• AI/ML system literacy — working knowledge of where LLMs, smaller/specialized models, RPA, and agentic workflows fit architecturally, enough to evaluate vendor claims critically.
• Regulated‑industry data governance — understanding of data governance, access control, and audit requirements, enough to know what 'good' looks like when reviewing vendor and internal designs.
• DevSecOps fluency — familiarity with embedding security and compliance controls within CI/CD and platform pipelines, sufficient to hold delivery teams to the standard.

Qualifications

Experience

• 5–8 years spanning delivery leadership, digital transformation, or technical program management, with a solution architecture or platform engineering background — someone who has moved from hands‑on technical work into a broader delivery/transformation remit.
• Demonstrated ownership of getting a technical solution from MVP/pilot through to production‑scale deployment, in a regulated or enterprise environment.
• Experience managing or coordinating vendor relationships and RFI/RFP processes, including technical evaluation of fintech or AI/automation solutions.
• Track record operating as the connective layer between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and governance bodies in a fast‑moving innovation or Agile Lab environment.

Skills & Attributes

• Strong program and stakeholder management instincts — comfortable driving a delivery cadence, managing competing priorities, and keeping multiple workstreams visible without close supervision.
• Credible technical foundation — able to speak architecture fluently with engineers and vendors, even if not writing the specifications personally day‑to‑day.
• Strong written and verbal communicator — able to produce governance‑ready documentation and translate technical risk into business language for leadership.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and pace — able to act as technical/delivery owner inside an innovation environment without requiring detailed direction.
• Effective across functions — works well with Risk/Compliance, Innovation/AIC, external vendors, and engineering, and can flex communication style across all four.