The client is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the engineering team for a cutting-edge AI and data platform. This role involves directing a multi-disciplinary team and establishing engineering and AI standards. The Head of Engineering will be responsible for executing the engineering roadmap, driving architectural decisions for distributed data processing, ML pipelines, and modern web systems, and ensuring systems scale to support large datasets and evolving GenAI workloads.
Key responsibilities include championing engineering excellence through testing, observability, documentation, and incident response while guiding teams on AI-assisted coding practices. The role requires balancing delivery speed, technical debt, and long-term stability in fast-moving product areas. Additionally, the Head of Engineering will have clear ownership of core products and is expected to make significant contributions to the overall engineering strategy of the client.
The ideal candidate will have experience operating across ML delivery, GenAI, and distributed data, with cloud experience ideally in AWS. A strong understanding of data technologies such as Spark or Databricks, as well as knowledge of modern web technologies like TypeScript, React, and .NET, is essential. A solid grounding in continuous integration and delivery, containerization, and monitoring is also required. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply through the appropriate channels.