AI Engineering Tech Lead

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Technical Skills

• Languages: Proficiency in Python and Terraform is mandatory. Beyond syntax the candidate must demonstrate mastery of best practices clean code principles and the ability to build maintainable modular systems. Experience with TypeScript and SQL is highly desirable.

• Cloud Services: Must possess a deep understanding of the AWS ecosystem including account navigation and resource management. Prior experience or understanding of Azure and GCP is considered a plus.

• Strategic Architecture: Design and oversee data pipelines based on robust infrastructure foundations and an understanding of complex model chaining using common open source frameworks.

• Platform Leadership: Expert-level management of LLM and Foundational models across AWS and Azure ensuring scalable and cost-effective deployments.

• Standards & Quality: Define and enforce engineering standards for software practices model serving and lifetime management (accuracy drift and rigorous testing).

• Development Excellence: Drive best practices in Python and asynchronous programming ensuring high-performance software architecture and design patterns.

• CI/CD & DevOps: Architect robust deployment pipelines and distributed computing environments to ensure seamless production cycles.

• Technical Oversight: Lead code and design reviews identifying quality issues and refactoring complex systems to maintain technical debt.

• Solution Implementation: Provide high-level recommendations for AI developments and translate client specifications into actionable engineering roadmaps.

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• Experience: At least 4 years in a specialized AI/Gen AI practitioner role.

• Leadership & Mentoring: Proven ability to coach and mentor engineers serving as a primary route of escalation for complex technical issues.

• Stakeholder Management: Experience chairing meetings and communicating complex technical concepts to both internal leadership and external clients.

• Strategic Thinking: Strong business awareness to align AI initiatives with organisational drivers structures and priorities.

• Project Governance: Ability to organise prioritise and monitor team workloads ensuring projects stay on schedule and meet service standards.

• Ethical Oversight: Deep understanding of Engineering and AI ethics ensuring all team outputs adhere to responsible AI standards.

• Continuous Innovation: A passion for emerging technologies staying up-to-date with certifications and industry advancements to keep the teams skills at the forefront.

Join Capita Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Capita is a dynamic leader in consulting and digital services helping some of the UKs most recognized organizations transform and thrive. We use cutting-edge technology and fearless innovation to create smarter more efficient solutions that make a real difference. Our work spans diverse sectorsgovernment healthcare education and financeoffering you the chance to contribute to projects that impact millions of lives. At Capita youll be part of a collaborative forward-thinking team that values creativity growth and inclusion.

Were committed to your development and success providing opportunities to learn progress and shape better outcomes for customers and communities. If youre ready to make an impact and grow your career Capita is the place for you. Check out our website

Whats in it for you

• A competitive basic salary

• 23 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave

• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice

• Company matched pension life assurance a cycle2work scheme 15 weeks fully paid maternity adoption and shared parental leave paternity pay of two plenty more

• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising to health & wellbeing travel and technology Access to our Employee Network Groups which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open inclusive platform

What we hope youll do next:

Choose Apply now to fill out our short application so that we can find out more about you.

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. As part of our strategic goals we are focused on accelerating gender and ethnic representation in leadership roles. We warmly encourage applications from women and individuals from Black Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

Were an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. Were committed to providing an inclusive barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio) or if youd like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward please email and well get back to you.For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments please visit the Capita Careers website.

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