Data Scientist / BI Specialist
BDO Unibank ·
- Category
- Data science
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Company size
- 1000+
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A full-stack AI engineer at BDO Unibank who designs, builds, and maintains production GenAI applications (LLM/RAG chatbots, AI agents) end to end — React.js frontends, Python REST APIs, vector databases, and Azure/AWS deployment. Onsite role based in Makati/Ortigas, Philippines.
About BDO
BDO Unibank, Inc. is the Philippines’ leading full-service bank, offering a wide range of financial and digital banking services. Guided by our brand promise “We Find Ways,” we are committed to delivering easy, reliable, and customer-focused services. Build your career with a trusted industry leader.
Job Summary
The AI Specialist/Data Scientist is a full stack AI engineer responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-grade AI applications, Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, Agentic AI systems, and intelligent digital experiences that deliver measurable business value.
The role combines software engineering, AI engineering, and product development capabilities, encompassing front-end development, backend services, AI orchestration, model integration, and cloud deployment. The incumbent will build and support scalable, secure, and production-ready AI solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Agents, workflow orchestration frameworks, APIs, and cloud-native technologies. He/she is expected to work closely with business stakeholders, data scientists, AI architects, UX designers, platform engineers, and DevOps teams to transform business requirements into robust AI products and reusable AI services that accelerate the Bank's AI transformation journey.
Key Responsibilities:
AI Application Development and Support
Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade AI-powered applications using RAG architecture, agenticAI
Build end-to-end GenAI applications utilizing LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and agent orchestration frameworks
Develop customer-facing and employee-facing AI solutions across web, mobile, and conversational channels
Translate business requirements into scalable AI application architectures
Develop reusable AI application components and reference patterns
Develop data pipelines to ingest and store data to vector database or relational database
Front-End Development
Develop responsive, secure, and intuitive user interfaces using React.js
Build AI chat interfaces, agent dashboards, workflow management portals, and AI-assisted user experiences
Implement state management, authentication, authorization, and application security controls
Optimize user experience, accessibility, and application performance
Backend Services and API Engineering
Build and deploy backend services and APIs in Python, including data-driven and AI-powered features
Design and develop RESTful APIs to facilitate communication between front-end applications and backend services
Ensure robust error handling, authentication, and authorization mechanisms in API interactions
Collaborate with backend engineers to define API specifications and ensure seamless integration
Optimize API calls for performance and reliability, implementing strategies like pagination, batching, and caching
AI Solution Integration
Integrate OpenAI models and other LLM services into production applications
Embed and interact with generative AI models (e.g., via OpenAI or custom APIs) in the front‑end, ensuring low latency and responsive UIs
Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise platforms and business processes
Connect AI solutions with APIs, databases, document repositories, workflow systems, and third-party application
Collaboration and Documentation
Translate business requirements into technical implementation
Participate in design reviews, sprint planning, and code reviews, providing constructive feedback
Communicate with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate the requests to a technical design
Execute testing
Document component libraries, data schemas, and integration patterns to adhere to SDLC policy
AI Governance and Compliance
Ensure compliance with Responsible AI policies, security standards, data privacy requirements
Implement guardrails against any Responsible AI risk
Qualifications:
Preferred Experience
BDO Unibank, Inc. provides equal opportunity to all qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are based on job requirements and candidate qualifications, and shall not be influenced by any consideration of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national or ethnic origin, or disability.
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