AI Engineer - Octave: Data and Advanced Analytics Centre of Excellence
John Keells Holdings PLC3 months ago
Colombo, Sri LankaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality AI and agentic AI applications.
- Build AI services integrating model APIs such as Google Vertex, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face, including session and state management, rate limiting, caching, and privacy controls.
- Implement document ingestion, embedding generation, vector database selection, and retrieval-augmented generation orchestration.
- Create prompt and context engineering patterns, templates, and safety filters to manage hallucination, cost, and user intent.
- Develop scalable backend systems and optimized user interfaces using modern technologies.
- Deploy and operate systems using containerization, orchestration, serverless options, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute ideas, conduct code reviews, and communicate effectively.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Proven track record designing, developing, and maintaining complex responsive AI applications as a full-stack AI engineer.
- Thorough understanding of generative AI and agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph and LlamaIndex.
- Strong proficiency in backend technologies such as FastAPI and Node.js.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
- Experience with frontend technologies such as React and Next.js.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ability to analyze and solve complex technical problems independently.
- Leadership qualities and a proactive approach to fostering a positive, collaborative team environment.
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About John Keells Holdings PLC
John Keells Holdings PLC is a Sri Lankan public conglomerate that owns and operates businesses in retail, hospitality, logistics, real estate, financial services, IT/BPO, and food and beverages. The group runs the Keells supermarket chain and Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts, and provides port, marine fuel, and integrated logistics services. Founded in 1870 and headquartered in Colombo, it is the largest company listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, with operations in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.