Technical Lead, Data & AI, UK
Description
The Technical Lead is a central, deeply hands-on role at vector8. You will write code, build solutions, and directly drive the delivery of enterprise-grade data and AI systems — while providing the technical direction and mentorship that helps the team around you excel.
This is not a primarily hands off, high level management position: you are expected to be in the codebase every day, solving hard problems, unblocking teammates, and setting the bar for engineering quality. You bring strong hands-on engineering skills across data and AI, combined with the breadth to make sound technical decisions, navigate complex system landscapes, and ensure everything delivered is secure, performant, and compliant.
Requirements
The Technical Lead is a central, deeply hands-on role at vector8. You will write code, build solutions, and directly drive the delivery of enterprise-grade data and AI systems — while providing the technical direction and mentorship that helps the team around you excel.
This is not a primarily hands off, high level management position: you are expected to be in the codebase every day, solving hard problems, unblocking teammates, and setting the bar for engineering quality. You bring strong hands-on engineering skills across data and AI, combined with the breadth to make sound technical decisions, navigate complex system landscapes, and ensure everything delivered is secure, performant, and compliant.
Requirements
- Extensive and demonstrable experience in ML &data engineering & AI solution architectures.
- Deep expertisein designing and building complex AI solutions (MLOps, streaming, APIs, orchestration).
- Strong hands-on engineering skills - comfortable coding in Python, SQL, or similar languages and working with modern data/AI toolchains.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP data/AI services; multi-cloud familiarity is astrongplus.
- Knowledge of data governance, responsible AI, security frameworks, and operational controls, ideally coupled with experience inhighly regulated industries with strict requirements for security, privacy, compliance, and data governance.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence both executives and engineering teams.
- Ability to convert complex challenges into clear architectural decisions and actionable delivery plans.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics ora related field.