Job description

The Group Lead Engineer (Frontend) for the Retail Banking Group’s Digital DBC Transformation is responsible for delivering and maintaining IT applications and services that enable next-generation digital experiences, driving the design, development, and delivery of intelligent, scalable, and secure user interfaces that integrate with AI and LLM-powered backend systems. The role governs engineers across countries within the squad’s scope, maintains a helicopter view to set priorities, creates and maintains the squad’s technical knowledge base, sets and enhances coding rules, writes tutorials and provides training, and continuously improves their own and the team’s code. Core duties include consulting on functional and non-functional requirements; designing, building, and testing IT products (functional, performance, resilience, and security tests) with automation; unit testing; improving Continuous Delivery; setting up environments; deploying on infrastructure; implementing required changes; and setting up monitoring of product usage. The Lead Engineer designs and delivers intuitive, responsive, and intelligent UIs that leverage Large Language Models for dynamic content generation, contextual assistance, and real-time interactions; collaborates with backend and AI teams to integrate LLM APIs and inference pipelines; implements UI-level guardrails for responsible AI (user consent flows, moderation alerts, fallback messaging, transparency indicators); ensures compliance with AI governance and regulatory standards via explainable and trustworthy UX patterns; leads development of conversational interfaces (chat, voice, visual prompts) and supports multimodal input/output for accessibility; optimizes performance for AI-heavy applications (low latency, efficient rendering) using caching, streaming, and progressive rendering strategies; ensures secure handling of user inputs and AI outputs (masking sensitive data, preventing prompt injection and misuse) while collaborating with security to uphold data protection and privacy; translates complex AI functionalities into user-friendly interfaces; mentors global frontend teams, establishes coding standards, and leads code reviews focused on scalable AI integration; and works in agile/scrum with grooming, planning, TDD, test automation, debugging, profiling, configuration management, version control, and full CD (compile, build, package, deploy) while maintaining traceability of testing activities.