AI Platform Lead

Job Description

AI Platform Lead / Up to 90K Approx. 29% Pension / London OR Newcastle / 2 Days in Office

We are seeking an experienced AI Platform Lead to help design build and operate secure AI development and production environments supporting a growing portfolio of machine learning and generative AI solutions. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership including support for a small team of AI engineers.

You will work across infrastructure deployment model integration and experimentation to deliver scalable reliable and secure AI capabilities that improve efficiency decision-making and service delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Build operate and maintain AI development and production environments using Azure services including AI ML and GenAI workloads.
• Design and manage CI/CD and MLOps pipelines to support model development deployment monitoring and lifecycle management.
• Provision and secure cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code with a strong focus on automation compliance and best practice.
• Develop and integrate AI applications and services including classical ML NLP RAG and generative AI solutions.
• Support experimentation and proof-of-concept work through secure AI sandboxes and evaluation of emerging tools and platforms.
• Monitor optimise and retrain models in production ensuring strong performance reliability safety and cost effectiveness.
• Apply cloud security identity and access controls data governance and Responsible AI principles across all solutions.
• Provide technical leadership mentoring and workload coordination for a small team of AI engineers.
• Produce clear documentation covering architecture workflows data flows and operational procedures.

What we are looking for

• Proven experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions in production.
• Strong background in AI infrastructure cloud platforms CI/CD containerisation and MLOps.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and related services.
• Ability to work with data scientists engineers and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading or mentoring technical team members.
• Strong understanding of Responsible AI data privacy and ethical considerations.

Location: Hybrid with regular attendance required at an office in London or Newcastle.

If you are interested in the role then please apply or reach out!