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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Relocation friendly

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AI/ML

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BCM Industry

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20/10/2026

Req. VR-125646

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Project description

The project focuses on developing and productionizing advanced Generative AI solutions for investment and financial-services use cases, with a strong emphasis on LLM fine-tuning, model adaptation, evaluation, and deployment. The role will also contribute to RAG and agentic AI platforms, integrating enterprise data and cloud-based AI services to support front-office investment teams and improve automation, decision-making, and productivity.

Responsibilities
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Development of existing and new modules within core applications supporting the front office investment teams

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Delivering new functionality, data capabilities and modules as well as smaller enhancements and fixes to existing modules

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Engagement with IT and business stakeholders and take ownership of deliverables.

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Understand business problems and offer technical solutions.

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Contribute to continuous improvement with respect to coding standards, practices and SDLC maturity.

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Work in partnership with quants and traders to help building, supporting and maintaining a quantitative trading and risk optimization platform.

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Engage with stakeholders and take ownership of deliverables.

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Improve productivity by using automation (where applicable).

Skills

Must have

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Minimum of 8 years' experience in enterprise-grade developer roles.

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Minimum of 3 years' relevant experience in AI-specific applications in an enterprise context, including some experience guiding, reviewing or coordinating the work of other engineers.

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Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent combined education and experience.

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Technical experience in financial domain AI: Track record in building and leading the delivery of generative AI applications for financial services (trading, compliance, customer support). Experience in fixed income — bonds, FX, credit — would be preferred.

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AI and LLM Integration: Python expertise, leveraging large language models (GPT-4, Claude) within AI pipelines. Experience with LangChain and LangGraph for orchestrating generative workflows and agentic

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Generative AI Pipelines: Ability to design and own multi-step, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines using Azure Cognitive Search to integrate structured/unstructured company data effectively, and to set the patterns the wider team re-uses behaviours, and for guiding other engineers' use of these frameworks.

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Agentic System Design: Experience developing autonomous AI agents that handle context-aware interactions, leveraging recent advancements from OpenAI's Agents SDK.

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Fine-Tuning and Customization (Optional): Practical experience fine-tuning or adapting LLMs to specific business tasks using modern techniques (LoRA, PEFT).

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DevOps and Deployment: Familiar with CI/CD practices, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and observability tools for deployment in regulated environments.

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Excellent interpersonal skills, including collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation.

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Excellent planning and organizational skills, including the ability to plan and sequence a workstream's deliverables and coordinate the effort of other engineers contributing to it.

Nice to have

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Knowledge of the finance industry

Other
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Languages

English: C1 Advanced

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Seniority

Lead

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Req. VR-125646

AI/ML

BCM Industry

20/10/2026

Req. VR-125646

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