Associate Director, AI Engineer

Why Join Sun Life Vietnam?

At Sun Life, we cultivate a High-Performance, Caring Culture that empowers our people to achieve outstanding results, embrace continuous growth, and create meaningful impact. We succeed together by fostering an inclusive environment where wellbeing, collaboration, and accountability are equally valued.

About the Role

The AI Team Lead will lead the AI function within the Data & AI team at Sun Life Vietnam. This role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying high-impact Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions on AWS. The primary mission is to build and deliver an intelligent Knowledge Virtual Assistant (using advanced RAG, Multi-Agent systems), while driving LLM fine-tuning, Computer Vision, and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) initiatives. The role ensures close collaboration with the Regional GenAI Team to maintain alignment with global architecture standards, strategic direction, and best practices, delivering production-grade, compliant, and scalable AI capabilities that create measurable business value.

Responsibilities

Execution:

• Define and execute the AI/ML technical roadmap in alignment with both local business priorities and Sun Life Regional/Global GenAI strategy.
• Architect and deliver the Knowledge Virtual Assistant using advanced RAG and Multi-Agent systems tailored to each business block. Lead LLM fine-tuning initiatives for insurance-specific and Vietnamese-language models.
• Drive Computer Vision and ASR initiatives (document processing, claims image analysis, voice-enabled compliance recording).
• Oversee other strategic AI/ML initiatives: customer personalization, claims automation, fraud detection, predictive underwriting, and analytics.
• Establish robust end-to-end MLOps practices and production pipelines on AWS.

Governance and Technical Leadership :

• Champion new AWS AI technologies while maintaining alignment with Regional GenAI architecture guidelines.
• Actively collaborate with the Regional GenAI Team to ensure all solutions comply with global architecture standards, security & governance frameworks, and strategic direction.
• Ensure all AI/ML solutions meet security, governance, model risk, and regulatory requirements (including PDPA, Vietnamese insurance laws on call recording, and Sun Life global standards).

Lead and Manage AI Team :

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data engineers.
• Champion the adoption of structured AI development methodologies, including Vibe Coding combined with BMAD across the team.

Ensure all activities, decisions and deliverables comply with fair treatment of Clients principles, proactively identifying and mitigating risks of unfair client outcomes in line with Company conduct expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related fields. 7–10 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML Engineering.
• At least 4 years in a technical leadership or Team Lead role, with proven success leading AI projects from concept to production.
• Demonstrated delivery of at least 2+ Enterprise Knowledge Assistant / Multi-Agent RAG projects in a production environment. Strong production AI experience on AWS is mandatory.

Required Skills

• Expert proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks.
• Deep expertise in LangChain, LangGraph for building complex stateful multi-agent workflows, supervisor agents, cyclic graphs, and human-in-the-loop systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock (Claude, Llama, Titan, etc.) and Amazon SageMaker (Pipelines, Model Registry, Monitoring, Feature Store).
• Advanced RAG implementation including vector stores, hybrid search, reranking, citation, and evaluation frameworks.
• Solid MLOps and Data Engineering skills on AWS: Glue, OpenSearch/Kendra, Lambda, Step Functions, EKS, S3, DocumentDB, EventBridge.
• Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CDK).
• Understanding of Generative AI architecture, agentic systems, and production deployment best practices.
• Production-grade rollouts, governance frameworks, control plane design, monitoring, drift detection, and automated rollback strategies.
• Demonstrate the Curiosity to effectively leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, decision-making, and quality of outcomes within the role.

Preferred Skills

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