Technical Lead – Dart (Data & AI Platform)Rate: €480 per dayExperience: 4-8 yearsLocation: Malaga or Madrid, Spain (Hybrid working)Languages: Spanish and EnglishMy client, an innovative accelerator company specializing in digital transformation, working with a diverse range of clients is looking for a strong Technical Lead (DART) with 4-8 years proven industry experience.Role Purpose:The Technical Lead (TL) provides end‐to‐end technical leadership and governance across the DART teams, ensuring engineering practices, cost transparency, and architectural consistency while enabling delivery at pace.The TL is fully dedicated to this role and acts as the primary technical authority connecting multiple organisations and delivery units (ACOE, AIDA, D&A, Local Markets), owning technical standards, cost governance, and platform integrity — without being accountable for defining long‐term technology roadmaps.Role CharacteristicsFull‐time, dedicated role (no split delivery responsibilities)Senior technical leadership position with enterprise‐wide influenceStrong collaboration focus across markets and central teamsHigh accountability with decision‐making authorityKey Responsibilities1. Role Ownership and Decision AccountabilityAct as the single point of ownership for technical problems and their resolution across Data & AI initiatives.Manage priorities and dependencies across four key actors (ACOE, AIDA, D&A, Local Markets), facilitating negotiations and resolving conflicts effectively.Ensure clarity of ownership for technical decisions, risks, and outcomes, avoiding ambiguity and duplicated accountability.2. Access, Authority, and GovernanceHold unrestricted access to all relevant GCP projects to enable architecture reviews, recommendations, innovation assessments, and cost analysis.Exercise authority to allocate resources,



enforce standards, and manage accountability across teams not directly reporting into the role.Chair and operate a Technical Assurance Board with the mandate to make binding decisions, including approval, rejection, or blocking of technical demands.3. Collaborative Technical LeadershipProvide technical guidance through collaboration, not command-and-control, working jointly with:Product OwnersPlatform EngineeringSolution DesignDelivery LeadsConnect teams, understand end‐to‐end complexity, and guide outcomes without needing to have all the answers personally.4. Stakeholder Representation and AlignmentShare formal accountability with D&A Group representative.Communicate through squad-level representatives to ensure scalable, efficient alignment and avoid unnecessary centralisation.Act as the escalation point for cross‐squad technical and cost conflicts.5. Cost Modelling and Input GovernanceEnsure accurate and reliable cost models by enforcing input ownership from source system owners, including:Data volumes and growthCompute patterns and run timesLineage and dependenciesSLAs and availability expectationsMake clear that without validated input data, GCP cost prediction, budgeting, and optimisation cannot be considered reliable.6. Innovation and RationalisationCreate a safe space for innovation,



enabling experimentation with new approaches and technologies.Drive platform rationalisation by:Reviewing legacy artefactsMigrating non‐standard solutionsPromoting standard, reusable templates and platformsBalance innovation with long‐term sustainability.7. Standardisation and Lessons LearnedTrack, document, and share lessons learned across programmes and markets.Actively balance delivery velocity vs reusability, avoiding inefficient copy‐paste solutions.Promote parametrised, reusable engineering patterns as default practice.8. Cost Monitoring and Platform GovernanceDefine and enforce cost monitoring strategies and tooling to control and reduce platform run costs.Standardise on approved technological platforms and patterns.Ensure governance decisions are supported by transparent data and enforced consistently through the Technical Assurance Board.9. Action Plan and Continuous ImprovementThe TL is accountable for defining and driving a clear improvement roadmap, including:Mandatory run‐cost estimation gates for all initiativesStandardised cost monitoring via Cloud SmartFreezing and retiring non‐standard data movement pathsEstablishing and operating a Technical Assurance Board with:Clear roles and responsibilitiesDecision rightsTransparent communication mechanismsDefined Accountability Areas (TL Owns)Engineering and architectural standardsApproval or rejection of technical demand based on cost and sustainabilityDefinition and maintenance of golden paths for data ingestion, transformation, and servingTelemetry, observability, and monitoring standardsPartnership with Finance on budgeting and forecastingChairing the Technical Assurance BoardPortfolio hygiene reviews and legacy rationalisationPublishing reference cost models and benchmarksEscalating risks that threaten platform standards, budgets, or long‐term sustainability

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