AI Engineering Lead

As the AI Engineering Lead you will be pivotal in driving material EBIT impact through application of AI across the Group. Reporting to the Group Head of Software Engineering and aligned to the Groups Head of AI 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.

Critically you will provide significant input into product architecture for reusable AI products that can be adopted by more than one part of the Group. In so doing you will maximise reuse potential whilst minimising any associated product premium. This will involve articulating and mitigating technical risks in a disciplined and datadriven manner and supporting development of technical blueprints that leftshift discovery and early value release and subsequently evolve into fully industrialised enterprise AI products. And you will continuously monitor and reduce internal consumers effort required to discover and adopt these AIpowered products by treating colleagues as customers and optimizing the associated journeys.

You will also be accountable for the technical direction for AI / ML platforms including lightweight generative AI abstraction and the route to live and runtime platform for ML development. And you will ensure that all teams operate a structured agile technical governance process which supports rapid and auditable decisionmaking with appropriately devolved responsibilities evidencing conformance to all standards and guardrails for reusable technical components design patterns interfaces and machine learning models.
You will maintain an alwayson view of the everchanging external AI landscape and lead on modelling the costs and benefits of individual generative models and associated implementation approaches (GraphRAG RAG etc.

You will also work with tech leads and technical architects in all IAGs AI Labs (currently London and Barcelona) to build an aligned community of enthusiastic forwardlooking pragmatists who continuously challenge themselves to learn and improve as individuals whilst also driving incremental improvements to ROI for AI investments across the Group.

Qualifications :

At least 10 years of experience working in the data science / AI / software domain with a proven track record of delivery of tangible value (EBIT etc.

Experience of successfully leading software products from the technical perspective ensuring code is developed to high quality and security standards

Strong understanding of software development and DevSecOps best practices Enthusiastic optimistic forwardlooking

Airline industry experience (preferred)

Strong leadership communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse and crossfunctional team.

Strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to translate business problems and opportunities into potential AI solutions and actions.

Ability to frame complex technical considerations for consumption by timepoor executives to support decisionmaking and education

Additional Information :

Benefits
The chance to enjoy a challenging career in an exciting fastmoving environment in a dynamic industry working in a multicultural environment with great offices in many locations. We aim to provide all our people with a work/life balance as well as the many benefits offered by a global organisation including health insurance pension and performance bonuses

Diversity and Inclusion
IAG Tech is part of the IAG GBS organisation and our people are at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that we can only deliver the required business outcomes if we have a thriving community of technology professionals. Together we strive to become the very best at what we do.

We focus on making Tech a great place to work with a community that we feel proud to belong to. To help make this a reality our people strategy focuses on six key domains: Engagement Talent Management Reward and Recognition Performance Management Learning and Development and Culture. 

We understand the importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace to deliver this strategy everyone should feel part of our team. We want to foster an inclusive workplace celebrate individuality and embrace differences so that everyone in IAG Tech can achieve their goals and ambitions regardless of their personal circumstances or background. 

As a Group IAG has an ambition that 40 of senior management roles are held by women by 2025. IAG Tech fully supports that ambition and we are working to help make it a reality. With this in mind we have set ourselves the challenging target of recruiting 50 female colleagues by 2030.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime