Technical Product Lead - MLOps

Technical Product Lead - MLOps Platform

6-month contract | £650/day INSIDE IR35 | Remote (occasional London travel)

We're looking for a Technical Product Lead to help shape and mature a growing machine learning platform capability. This role is focused on moving beyond short-term delivery into a well-structured, scalable MLOps environment that can be leveraged across the wider organisation.

Sitting between product, engineering, and architecture, you will play a key role in driving technical direction, ensuring consistency across teams, and embedding a long-term platform approach.

• Take ownership of the MLOps capability, guiding its development into a robust, enterprise-grade platform
• Define the strategic direction, standards, and operating model for how MLOps is delivered across the business
• Design and promote reusable components and frameworks, including:
  • Environment/workspace structures
  • Pipeline templates and orchestration patterns
  • Deployment approaches
  • Governance and control mechanisms
• Act as a central design authority, providing oversight and direction across multiple delivery teams
• Ensure alignment across programmes, avoiding fragmented or inconsistent solutions
• Work closely with engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders to guide technical decision-making
• Translate business needs into scalable and reusable platform capabilities
• Embed governance principles directly into platform design rather than relying on post-delivery controls
• Drive best practice around maintainability, scalability, and reduction of technical debt
• Influence key decisions relating to deployment models, integrations, and platform controls

• Proven experience leading MLOps or machine learning platform initiatives at an enterprise level
• Strong background in defining platform strategies, standards, and operating models
• Solid understanding of the ML lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and governance
• Experience working within modern cloud-based data and ML environments
• A background that spans product, architecture, and engineering disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to design reusable frameworks and scalable platform patterns
• Experience working in complex environments with multiple parallel delivery streams
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience operating in a design authority or governance-focused role

• Experience working in regulated or highly governed environments
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as:
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • DevOps approaches
  • Cloud-native platform architectures
• Exposure to large-scale transformation programmes

• MLOps & Machine Learning Platforms
• Enterprise Architecture & Platform Design
• Technical Product Ownership
• Governance & Design Authority
• DevOps / CI/CD
• Stakeholder Management

Additional Information

My client has limited interview slots and they are looking to fill this vacancy by the end of the month. I have limited slots for 1st stage interviews next week, so if you're interested, get in touch ASAP with a copy of your most up-to-date CV and contact me directly via email.

Please Note: This is a contract role for UK residents only. This role does not offer sponsorship. You must have the right to work in the UK with no restrictions. Some of our roles may be subject to successful background checks including a DBS and credit check.

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