Senior Technical Lead
About the role
As a Senior Technical Lead- Agentic AI, you will be an enterprise-level senior leader who is pivotal in driving value through the application of AI technology across the Group. Reporting to the client AI Engineering Lead and aligned to the Group Head of Software Engineering, you will be accountable for ensuring technical designs and overarching technology strategy provide an optimal balance between cost, risk, time to value, and all other considerations, for AI solutions and ML platform development.
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Our client is currently looking for a new recruit in joining their team, please read on!
You can also ask our friendly recruitment team any questions you may have about the role, between 8:30am-5:30pm Monday to Friday.
Shifts: Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week)
Experience and Skills Required:
- At least 10 years of experience working in Enterprise Engineering, working in complex environments, with a proven track record of delivering tangible value through technology
- Demonstrated ability to provide deep, hands-on technical leadership across multiple squads, setting technical direction and ensuring the delivery of consistent, enterprise-grade solutions with robust architecture
- Experience delivering AI tools and capabilities
- Willingness and ability to be on-site and travel weekly (or as needed) between Barcelona and London
- Enthusiastic, optimistic, forward-looking
- Outstanding leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse and cross-functional team
- Strategic and analytical thinker, with the ability to translate business problems and opportunities into potential AI solutions and actions.
- Ability to frame complex technical considerations for consumption by time-poor executives to support decision-making and education
- Airline industry experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Regular travel to work hands-on with technical leads across squads
- Assessing the feasibility of new AI initiatives, use cases, and adoption of existing propositions, and identifying low-cost, quick-start technical approaches to support left-shifted value
- Operating a structured and data-driven approach to articulating and burning down technical risk
- Modelling adoption cost
- Technical governance, including the KDD (Key Design Decision) process for IMS products, supporting rapid auditable decision-making and conformance to Group standards for reusable components, design patterns, and ML models
- Experience and knowledge of technical approach to model development and contemporary ML engineering, including 3rd party platforms, routes to live and CICD pipelines for MLOps and data science
- Maintaining a disciplined, auditable approach to architectural decision making aligned to agile principles
- Working with other teams to ensure smooth operational introduction of new services in accordance with all required procedures and guardrails, whilst identifying and sponsoring improvements to the existing processes
- Continuously assessing and disseminating new 3'd party AI capabilities to ensure client and the operating companies have access to the most cost-effective options
- Architectural consensus building with client CTO, CDIO, cloud platform and data platform teams
- You will also foster an engaged community of technology practitioners and interested parties across the Group, and partner with the People and Culture team to ensure AI Academy learning path content/ curricula are created and consumed by colleagues across the Group.
What's in it for you? –
Our client loves to reward their people for doing a great job.
- This is a 6 months contract.
- A day rate, £700-750 on PAYEE via Hays or £800-890 on Hays approved Umbrella company-in-scope IR35
- This role provides a hybrid working access from the comforts of your own home and only going to our state-of-the-art office in London (2/3) days per week.
- May involve international travel
Next Steps
Once you've applied, one of our friendly recruitment consultants will give you a call and talk you through the screening process.
If your application is successful, you'll be involved in a live virtual interview with one of our client's hiring managers to get to know you better.
We look forward to speaking to you!