AI Project Lead - 55k
We’re hiring an experienced AI Project Lead to lead the delivery of innovative technology solutions, including chatbot and AI voice bot projects. This role is ideal for someone with a strong application development background and proven experience managing end-to-end project delivery. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, drive project success, and ensure high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead application architecture design and modernization initiatives to improve scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Manage the full project lifecycle from discovery, planning, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and post-production support, ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and timelines.
- Drive the implementation of application, chatbot, and AI voicebot solutions, coordinating cross-functional teams including developers, architects, QA, business users, and external vendors where applicable.
- Translate business requirements into technical architectures, project plans, and delivery roadmaps, ensuring alignment between business goals and technology solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance across frontend and backend technologies, including React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, APIs, and system integrations.
- Establish architecture standards, integration patterns, data models, and development best practices while ensuring compliance with organizational and technical governance requirements.
- Manage project risks, dependencies, architectural trade-offs, and technical challenges proactively, providing recommendations and mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
- Ensure quality, security, and delivery excellence through architecture reviews, secure-by-design practices, testing governance, non-functional requirement validation, and user acceptance processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience in IT Architecture, Solution Design, or Technical Leadership, including designing or revamping enterprise application architectures.
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end IT project delivery, preferably involving application development, digital transformation, chatbot, AI, or voicebot initiatives.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, and modern application architecture patterns, with the ability to guide technical teams effectively.
- Solid understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, maintainability, reliability, and integration architecture.
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or other project delivery methodologies, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience in application security, architecture governance, risk management, compliance reviews, and secure-by-design practices is highly preferred.
About the job
Contract Type: Perm
Specialism: Tech & Transformation
Focus: AI, Data & Analytics
Industry: IT
Salary: HKD50,000 - HKD55,000 per month
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Mid Management
Location: Hong Kong
FULL_TIMEJob Reference: 8SMFKX-736B4DA7
Date posted: 23 July 2026
Consultant: Connie Cheung
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