APAC AI Engineering SVP — Hands-on Tech Leader

Bny Mellon; Singapore; On-site; SGD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Wellbeing programs

Generous paid leave

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, AI Engineer to join its APAC AI Hub in Singapore. The role combines hands‑on AI engineering with leadership to design, build, and operate complex enterprise AI platforms and services.

You will guide solution design, implement scalable architectures, and ensure production readiness while collaborating with regional and global teams across banking and financial services domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Advanced experience (10+) in applied AI/ML, software engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong experience leading technical delivery of complex, production‑grade AI applications, services, or enterprise platform capabilities.
• Deep knowledge of LLM‑based application development, retrieval‑augmented generation, agents, model evaluation, prompt engineering, session context management, fine‑tuning approaches, and MLOps/LLMOps.
• Extensive experience developing backend services, APIs, integrations, distributed systems, cloud‑based applications, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of full‑lifecycle software development, including requirements analysis, architecture, coding, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across multiple AI engineering initiatives, guiding solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
• Design and build complex AI applications and reusable capabilities using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, model integrations, and related technologies.
• Develop and integrate backend services, APIs, context pipelines, platform components, and developer tools that support our enterprise AI platform and other AI Hub products.
• Translate business and product requirements into clear technical designs, implementation plans, and scalable software architectures.
• Establish strong engineering practices across code quality, automated testing, model evaluation, CI/CD, security, privacy, observability, resilience, and technical‑debt management.
• Evaluate model and technology options, conduct technical studies and prototypes, and provide recommendations that support informed architecture and product decisions.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, AI Governance, Risk, Compliance, and regional engineering teams to ensure AI capabilities meet enterprise and regional requirements.
• Resolve complex engineering and production issues, identify systemic improvements, and support the ongoing reliability and performance of deployed AI services.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and promote reusable patterns and consistent engineering standards across teams.

Skills

AI leadership

ML engineering

Backend services

LLMOps

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Info Systems

Tools

LLMs

APAC collaboration

Job description

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, AI Engineer to join its APAC AI Hub in Singapore. The role combines hands‑on AI engineering with leadership to design, build, and operate complex enterprise AI platforms and services.

You will guide solution design, implement scalable architectures, and ensure production readiness while collaborating with regional and global teams across banking and financial services domains.