Director of AI Engineering & Platform Lead

The Bank of New York Mellon; Singapore; On-site; SGD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bank of New York Mellon in Singapore seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead APAC AI initiatives and partner with regional teams. This senior role combines technical leadership with hands-on AI engineering to deliver secure, scalable enterprise solutions.

You will set technical direction, drive production-grade AI capabilities, and align regional efforts with global platforms, architecture, governance, and control standards.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in applied AI/ML, software/platform engineering or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience establishing technical direction and building scalable, production-grade AI products, platforms, or shared enterprise capabilities.
• Deep understanding of modern AI engineering, including LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, session context management, fine-tuning approaches, model evaluation, guardrails, and MLOps/LLMOps.
• Extensive software and platform engineering experience across backend services, APIs, distributed systems, integrations, cloud-native architectures, containers, and automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, security, privacy, operational resilience, software quality, technical-debt management, and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and influence the architecture, design, and implementation of complex AI products, platform capabilities, and reusable engineering components across APAC.
• Lead the end‑to‑end development of production‑grade solutions using large language models, retrieval‑augmented generation, agentic systems, model integrations, and related applied AI technologies.
• Advance our enterprise AI platform and other AI Hub capabilities by developing scalable services, APIs, integrations, context pipelines, developer tools, and enterprise application components.
• Translate complex regional business requirements and technical opportunities into sustainable architectures that align with global AI Hub strategy and enterprise standards.
• Establish and promote engineering practices for AI evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD, automated testing, security, privacy, observability, reliability, and responsible AI adoption.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for highly complex architecture, integration, performance, and production issues that may affect critical business services.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, AI Governance, Risk, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and regional business teams to ensure AI solutions are valuable, controlled, resilient, and appropriate for enterprise use.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and define practical implementation strategies that improve engineering productivity, accelerate delivery, and support reusable capabilities across the firm.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen technical standards, and help grow AI engineering capability across the APAC AI Hub and partner teams.

Skills

LLMs

Agentic systems

Retrieval-augmented generation

MLOps/LLMOps

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Reliability

Responsible AI

Backend services

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

Containers

APIs

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline

Advanced degree beneficial

Tools

Containers

APIs

CI/CD

Job description

The Bank of New York Mellon in Singapore seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead APAC AI initiatives and partner with regional teams. This senior role combines technical leadership with hands-on AI engineering to deliver secure, scalable enterprise solutions.

You will set technical direction, drive production-grade AI capabilities, and align regional efforts with global platforms, architecture, governance, and control standards.