# Sr. Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**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.

**Business: Digital Platforms**

Principal responsibilities:

- Applied AI for Engineering Productivity (Design/Coding/Testing)

- Identify high-impact opportunities to use AI to improve mobile engineering outcomes across design, coding, testing, release readiness, and incident response.

- Build and operationalise AI-assisted workflows for engineers, ensuring strong governance and quality controls.

- Develop AI-powered accelerators and reusable components that teams can adopt with minimal friction.

- Establish practical guidance for “how we use AI here” for common engineering tasks.

- Data Engineering & Mobile Data Products

- Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines and curated datasets using mobile-related data sources.

- Define data models that enable consistent, trusted reporting and AI use cases.

- Implement data quality checks, lineage, monitoring, and documentation.

- Collaborate with security and risk partners to ensure compliant data handling.

- Dashboards & Decision Intelligence (Data-Driven Mobile)

- Build dashboards and decision tools that make excellent use of mobile-related data.

- Create “single pane of glass” views for mobile engineering health.

- Enable proactive management through leading indicators and alerting.

- Partner with mobile leadership to define KPIs that matter.

- AI Evangelism & Engineering Community Enablement

- Evangelise practical AI usage across the engineering community.

- Build a culture of experimentation with discipline.

- Act as a trusted advisor to squads.

- Create internal documentation, FAQs, and troubleshooting guides.

- AI-Native Operating Model Support (Partnering with Mobile CTO)

- Support the Mobile CTO in shaping an AI-native engineering strategy.

- Define lightweight governance that enables innovation while ensuring safe use.

- Establish measurement frameworks to quantify impact.

- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure AI adoption aligns with architecture, security, compliance, and broader technology strategy.

**Requirements**

Essential:

- Proven ability to use AI effectively to solve real engineering problems.

- Strong problem-solving abilities.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Strong experience building production-grade data pipelines and datasets.

- Proven ability to build dashboards/analytics products that drive action.

- Strong understanding of secure data handling and engineering practices.

- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

**Strong Technical Skills (AI/Data Engineering)**

- Proficiency in Python and SQL.

- Hands-on experience with AI tooling.

- Experience with analytics and visualisation tools.

- Familiarity with CI/CD and developer toolchains.

- Understanding of experimentation and measurement.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- AI
- Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines
- Dashboards
- Analytics
- Mobile Engineering
- Agile Delivery

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