# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Shanghai, Shanghai
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

**Principal Responsibilities:**

- Lead the architecture, design and delivery of enterprise-grade AI solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, security and production readiness.

- Design and develop complex AI agent systems, including agent orchestration, state management, tool integration, fault tolerance and workflow recovery.

- Establish reusable AI engineering capabilities and standards to support adoption across multiple business domains.

- Define AI evaluation and observability frameworks covering task accuracy, execution reliability, safety, latency, cost and operational performance.

- Drive data architecture and governance practices, ensuring data quality, consistency, traceability, security and regulatory compliance.

- Optimise AI application performance through model selection, context management, caching, parallel execution and resource efficiency.

- Design controlled AI execution architectures, balancing autonomous capabilities with deterministic workflows, human oversight and auditability.

- Provide technical leadership through architectural decisions, engineering standards, code reviews and mentoring, working closely with business, architecture and platform teams.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

- Advanced hands-on Python skills and strong software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, asynchronous programming, concurrency and automated testing.

- Proven experience architecting and delivering complex AI applications in production, including LLMs, RAG, tool calling and agent orchestration using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain or LlamaIndex.

- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, API design, event-driven integration and resilient application development.

- Demonstrated experience designing AI evaluation and observability frameworks, including quality assessment, performance monitoring, failure analysis and continuous improvement.

- Strong knowledge of data architecture and governance, including data quality management, metadata, data lineage, access controls and regulatory requirements.

- Experience optimising AI application performance, including model selection, context optimisation, caching, latency reduction and cost efficiency.

- Solid understanding of AI security, responsible AI, deterministic execution, human oversight and auditable decision-making.

- Strong experience with cloud platforms, containerised deployment, CI/CD, production monitoring, troubleshooting and recovery.

- Demonstrated technical leadership in driving architectural decisions, establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers and delivering complex technical solutions.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- distributed systems
- asynchronous programming
- concurrency
- automated testing
- enterprise architecture
- API design
- event-driven integration
- resilient application development
- AI evaluation
- observability frameworks
- data architecture
- governance
- data quality management
- metadata
- data lineage
- access controls
- regulatory requirements
- cloud platforms
- containerised deployment
- CI/CD
- production monitoring
- troubleshooting
- recovery

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