SVP, Software Development in US - Remote (JR01444)

SitusAMC is where the best and most passionate people come to transform our client’s businesses and their own careers. Whether you’re a real estate veteran, a passionate technologist, or looking to get your start, join us as we work together to realize opportunities for everyone, we proudly serve.

At SitusAMC, we are looking to match your unique experience with one of our amazing careers, so that we can help you realize your potential and career growth within the Real Estate Industry. If you are someone who can be yourself, advocate for others, stay nimble, dream big, own every outcome, and think global but act local – come join our team!

In this role you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision and direction of the team. You will work closely with cross functional teams, including Cybersecurity, AI as a Service, and Business teams to design and develop an enterprise-level solution for GenAI Knowledge Assets, including developing a business strategy, building knowledge management orchestration, and leading data product development to create value and boost SitusAMC’s GenAI applications.

Essential Job Functions:

• Evangelist and champion of strategic practice development across the Gen AI domain.
• Play a mentoring role in providing design and technical assistance to other members of the team.
• Build Gen AI capability among engineers including but not limited to Knowledge Engineering/prompt engineering/platform engineering.
• Knowledge Engineering: identifying and gathering relevant domain specific knowledge from various sources and structuring it in a structured way for LLM model to understand and utilize.
• Prompt Engineering: Building effective instructions for Gen AI models to generate more relevant, accurate and creative text formats.
• Optimize and Fine-tune Generative Models: Implement optimization strategies to fine-tune generative models for specific NLP use cases, ensuring high-quality outputs in summarization and text generation.
• Evaluate and Improve Model Performance: Conduct thorough evaluations of generative models, iterate on model architectures, and implement improvements to enhance overall performance in NLP applications.
• Platform engineering: Collaborate with other teams to integrate AI solutions into existing workflows and systems to get the platform running and available. They configure and manage the underlying infrastructure that supports the platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability.
• Staying up to date on advancements: The field of generative AI is constantly evolving, so staying informed about the latest research and developments, latest releases on different models and their performances are crucial.
• Ability to develop, suggest best practices of designing infrastructures that support fine-tuning of models to improve performance and efficiency, and troubleshoot any issues that arise during development or deployment.
• Creating and maintaining documentation: Ensure clear and comprehensive documentation of AI/ ML / LLM
• Analyze systems and applications and provide recommendations for design, enhancement and development, and play an active part in their execution.
• Security integration: GenAI platform engineers weave security best practices throughout the development lifecycle to safeguard the platform from vulnerabilities and data breaches.
• Monitoring and logging: Implementation of robust monitoring and logging systems, LLM Ops best practices that allows for proactive identification and resolution of potential issues.
• Responsible AI Guardrails: GenAI platform engineers are responsible for ensuring all Responsible AI metrics are governed through proper system infrastructure and monitoring.
• Data privacy and governance: Ensuring user data privacy and adhering to data governance regulations are paramount considerations for GenAI platform engineers.
• Other activities as may be assigned by your manager

Qualifications/ Requirements:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 12+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 2+ years in a VP level role or external equivalent.
• Additional 5+ years of experience in core technology organization or banking preferred
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to identify creative solutions to complex problems.
• Strong cross-cultural communication skills and the ability to effectively manage collaboration across time zones.
• Have tech delivery expertise (i.e. an expert in tech that can also get tech delivery done)
• High level of communication and negotiation skills, including the demonstrated ability to solicit opinions and accept feedback.
• Experience in operating effectively as part of cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in key capabilities – IT SDLC processes, written documentation/ specification skills
• Have experience in Prompt Engineering / Platform Engineering / Knowledge Engineering disciplines
• Exposure to tools/services/capabilities like:
• Cloud Solution Architecture/Development/Security/IaaC (AWS + Azure)
• AWS Bedrock services
• Proficiency in frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar
• Java, Python, C#
• Gen AI frameworks & tools (e.g. Lang chain)
• Vector/Graph/SQL Databases
• Non-deterministic automated testing
• Machine Learning, including LLM fine-tuning
• System Reliability Engineering
• Secure Coding
• Customer engagement systems
• Workflow platforms

Note: This job description is not intended to be all inclusive or exclusive. At any time, employees may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization and participate in additional trainings. SitusAMC does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms or any third parties. Any unsolicited resume submitted to SitusAMC in any manner will be considered SitusAMC property, and SitusAMC will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

The annual full time base salary range for this role is

$180,000.00 - $250,000.00

Specific compensation is determined through interviews and a review of relevant education, experience, training, skills, geographic location and alignment with market data. Additionally, certain positions may be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus as determined by bonus program guidelines, position eligibility and SitusAMC Senior Management approval. SitusAMC offers PTO and paid holidays, the terms of which are set forth in the program policies. All full time employees also are eligible to participate in various benefit plans, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance and 401K; in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

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SitusAMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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SitusAMC does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms or any third parties. Any unsolicited resume submitted to SitusAMC in any manner will be considered SitusAMC property, and SitusAMC will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.