Senior Tech Lead, AI & Machine Learning

Location: Barcelona & London (hybrid)

Travel: Regular UK - EU travel

Role Summary

We’re partnering with a large, international organisation to appoint a Senior Tech Lead who will guide the technical evolution of AI and machine learning capabilities across multiple business units.

This position suits a senior technologist who combines architectural depth, AI expertise, and commercial awareness, and who enjoys working across teams and leadership layers to turn emerging technologies into scalable, production-ready solutions.

What You’ll Do

You’ll act as a senior technical authority for AI initiatives, shaping how intelligent products are designed, built, governed, and rolled out across a complex enterprise environment.

Your remit will include:

- Setting architectural direction for shared AI services and platforms
- Designing solutions that can be deployed across multiple business entities without duplication or unnecessary cost
- Providing technical oversight of ML engineering, deployment pipelines, and operational readiness
- Establishing clear decision frameworks to support fast, transparent technical choices
- Evaluating new AI capabilities and vendors, with a strong focus on value, scalability, and sustainability
- Partnering with engineering leaders to build alignment across distributed teams
- Engaging senior stakeholders,



helping them understand technical options and trade-offs in plain language
- Contributing to internal capability building through communities of practice and learning initiatives

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the technical design of AI solutions from early exploration through to production use
- Ensure platforms and products are built to be robust, reusable, and cost-aware
- Identify and reduce technical risk through structured analysis and documentation
- Support early-stage experimentation while ensuring solutions can be industrialised
- Guide teams on best practices for cloud-based AI delivery and MLOps
- Maintain strong alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and data standards
- Keep abreast of developments in AI (including generative approaches) and advise on practical adoption

Experience & Background

- 10+ years’ experience in large-scale software or platform engineering roles
- Demonstrable experience delivering AI or data-driven systems in production
- Strong understanding of cloud architectures, ML lifecycles, and operational AI
- Experience working in complex, multi-team or multi-brand environments
- Confident operating at senior technical leadership level, influencing without direct authority
- Clear communicator able to support executive-level decision-making
- Willing and able to travel weekly between London and Barcelona

📌 Senior Tech Lead - Machine Learning, MLOps (Barcelona)
🏢 Talent
📍 Barcelona