APAC AI Lead Engineer

About the company

Our client, a leading global financial services organisation, is looking for a hands-on APAC AI Lead Engineer to drive AI-powered innovation and productivity improvements across its Global Broking business.

Your tasks

This is a business-facing technology role where you will work directly with brokers, trading desks and senior stakeholders to develop practical AI solutions, automate workflows and improve operational efficiency across APAC.

• Design, develop and deploy AI-powered applications, intelligent agents and workflow automation solutions.
• Build solutions leveraging Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents and API integrations.
• Partner with brokers and desk heads to identify opportunities for automation, information retrieval and productivity improvements.
• Develop AI tools supporting market information aggregation, research, document processing and front-office workflows.
• Develop Voice AI and surveillance solutions, including cleaning, transcribing and translating voice recordings using multilingual semantic analysis and translation technologies.
• Explore Speech-to-Speech AI, speech recognition and emerging voice-based AI technologies to enhance front-office workflows.
• Build and enhance Voice Surveillance systems using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper and AWS Transcribe, supporting classification, predictive analytics and compliance monitoring.
• Lead AI initiatives from proof of concept through to production deployment and adoption.
• Collaborate with global AI engineering, technology, architecture, risk and compliance teams to ensure secure and scalable delivery.
• Drive AI adoption across APAC and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in AI engineering, software development or technology delivery, preferably within financial services.
• Proven experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, AI agents, RAG and workflow automation solutions.
• Experience with Voice AI, Speech-to-Text, ASR, multilingual NLP, speech analytics or voice surveillance technologies.
• Proficiency in Python, APIs, cloud platforms, Git and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with Whisper, AWS Transcribe, AWS Bedrock, AWS Quick, Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform or similar AI platforms would be advantageous.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture, security, governance and production deployment.
• Ability to engage directly with front-office stakeholders and translate business needs into practical technical solutions.
• Exposure to capital markets, trading environments, communications surveillance or interdealer broking would be an advantage.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

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What we offer

An opportunity to lead high-impact AI initiatives, work directly with front-office business leaders and shape AI adoption across a global capital markets organisation.

How to apply

Share your resume with manisha@kstalentsolutions.com for further discussion.