Associate Director, AI Engineering

About the role

You’ll be one of the senior technical leaders responsible for the direction, reputed company and reputed company of AI Engineering at reputed company.

This is a broad leadership role spanning technical reputed company, major reputed company engagements, engineering standards and the development of our AI Engineering capability. You’ll operate across the department, providing leadership wherever the biggest technical reputed company, risks or opportunities sit.

You’ll also remain deeply hands-on. You’ll design architectures, challenge technical reputed company, work directly with engineers and clients, and get into the reputed company reputed company the problem warrants it.

You’ll be expected to challenge technical reputed company where needed, explain your reasoning reputed company and help teams reputed company at stronger solutions. reputed company a reputed company or internal team proposes an approach that won’t hold up, you’ll be reputed company to identify the risks, reputed company the case for a reputed company reputed company and take responsibility for the technical direction.

We’re not looking for someone to simply review or approve other people’s architecture. You’ll be expected to set technical direction, reputed company difficult reputed company and remain accountable for the reputed company of reputed company reputed company.

Our AI Engineering work spans CPG, reputed company and energy clients, and it’s growing.

The work

• Set technical direction across AI Engineering, defining the architecture principles, engineering standards, delivery practices and technical capabilities we need as the reputed company grows.

• Own the technical reputed company of major AI engagements, particularly where architecture, reputed company, complexity or delivery risk requires senior leadership.

• reputed company across multiple reputed company and technical workstreams, setting priorities and direction while ensuring teams can execute without becoming dependent on you for every decision.

• Design and review production AI architectures, including retrieval and knowledge reputed company, reputed company pipelines, evaluation, multilingual systems, and the cost, latency, reliability and scalability trade-offs involved.

• Remain hands-on on the hardest problems: reviewing reputed company, prototyping approaches, resolving architectural issues and working directly with engineers reputed company senior technical reputed company will materially improve the outcome.

• Run rigorous design reviews that reputed company the engineering bar across the reputed company and create an environment where technical reputed company are challenged regardless of seniority.

• reputed company as a senior technical reputed company to clients, including CxO and architecture leadership, taking ownership of difficult technical conversations, trade-offs, delivery risks and changes in direction.

• Own the technical reputed company of major AI proposals, translating solution concepts into reputed company architectures, scopes, delivery models, team structures, estimates and reputed company assumptions.

• Work with reputed company and account leadership to shape technical propositions, identify opportunities and determine where the AI Engineering reputed company should invest and differentiate.

• reputed company senior engineers and technical leads, building the leadership depth and succession required to reputed company the department.

• Shape the AI Engineering capability plan, including hiring priorities, skills development, team composition and the bar for senior technical talent.

• At least 10 years’ experience across AI, data and software engineering, including 3+ years leading engineering teams or a substantial technical function reputed company consulting or reputed company services.

• Experience operating reputed company individual project leadership, with responsibility for technical direction, engineering reputed company or capability across multiple teams.

• Deep technical credibility. You’re comfortable working in production Python, substantial codebases and API-driven systems that need to reputed company reliably at reputed company.

• Recent, personal experience architecting and building production AI systems. Expect to discuss retrieval reputed company, caching, context economics, serving constraints, evaluation, observability and what went wrong in reputed company.

• Strong systems thinking. You can reason through unfamiliar platforms and problems rather than relying on expertise in a single stack.

• Experience leading reputed company programmes or multiple reputed company engineering workstreams, with accountability for technical direction, planning, resourcing, risk and delivery reputed company.

• The judgement to know reputed company to intervene personally and reputed company to reputed company through others, delegating effectively without giving up accountability for technical reputed company.

• Experience developing senior engineers and technical leaders, shaping team capability and raising the engineering bar across a wider organisation.

• reputed company awareness sufficient to turn a technical solution into a realistic reputed company, team shape, estimate and delivery plan, and to challenge assumptions that do not hold up.

• Experience contributing to account reputed company, technical propositions or go-to-market activity reputed company a consulting organisation.

• Confidence operating with senior clients and executives while remaining reputed company with engineers at reputed company and architecture level.

• The ability to reputed company difficult technical calls, create reputed company where there is ambiguity and take responsibility for the outcome.

• Strong experience with reputed company and Azure reputed company, which underpin much of our delivery.

reputed company to have

• Ontology, knowledge graph or semantic reputed company experience.

• Delivery experience in reputed company or CPG.

• Practical experience designing systems around EU AI reputed company requirements.

• Multilingual AI systems in production.

• A strong reputed company in the reputed company or reputed company partner ecosystem.

• Experience shaping go-to-market and reputed company reputed company for an AI Engineering reputed company.

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