Principal Lead, API & AI Enterprise Integration Services

First Abu Dhabi Bank
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Engineering leadership","Collaboration","Accountability","Continuous improvement","Mentorship"]

Define and lead the enterprise strategy for API, AI, and domain service engineering across value streams. Decompose legacy systems into modular, reusable, discoverable services and provide engineering leadership to build scalable, secure platforms that enable digital transformation. Partner with product owners, architects, and engineering leads to align shared capabilities with business outcomes, maintain delivery roadmaps and capacity plans, ensure IT governance and compliance, and track KPIs including audit and risk metrics.

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First Abu Dhabi Bank
First Abu Dhabi Bank
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Principal Lead, API & AI Enterprise Integration Services

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Job Summary

Define and lead the enterprise strategy for API, AI, and domain service engineering across value streams. Decompose legacy systems into modular, reusable, discoverable services and provide engineering leadership to build scalable, secure platforms that enable digital transformation. Partner with product owners, architects, and engineering leads to align shared capabilities with business outcomes, maintain delivery roadmaps and capacity plans, ensure IT governance and compliance, and track KPIs including audit and risk metrics.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve the enterprise API, AI, and domain services strategy across value streams.
  • •Lead engineering teams to build robust domain services and shared services for multiple domains.
  • •Ensure platform services are extensible, discoverable, and well-documented, enabling developer reuse.
  • •Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering leads to align services with business outcomes.
  • •Maintain delivery roadmaps, capacity plans, and resource forecasts; ensure governance, risk, and regulatory compliance and track KPIs.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of overall experience, with 10+ years in banking.
  • •Implement an API-first approach and translate enterprise goals into platform engineering strategies.
  • •Ensure platform components have architectural integrity, scalability, and performance.
  • •Promote engineering best practices including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and test automation.
  • •Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams while championing platform modernization and domain-driven design.
Experience:15+ yearsBanking
Skills:Engineering leadershipCollaborationAccountabilityContinuous improvementMentorship
Tech Stack:API-firstCI/CDDevSecOpsTest automationGenAI AgenticDomain-driven designEnterprise integration

Company Brief

First Abu Dhabi Bank
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the UAE’s largest bank, offering retail, corporate, investment banking, wealth and Islamic banking services across multiple continents, formed by the 2017 merger of First Gulf Bank and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 2017
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