About The Role
Lead Machine Learning Engineer responsible for technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. Act as a technical expert across projects from AI strategy to client-side deployments, ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable.
Balance deep technical expertise with strong leadership, driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Setting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade‑offs, and guiding team priorities.
* Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions.
* Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple workstreams in often ill‑defined, high‑risk environments.
* Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them.
* Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth.
* Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing ways of working to stay ahead of the competition.
* Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work‑streams and defending rationale to stakeholders.
Who We’re Looking For
* Technical expert among peers, capable of deep expertise and demonstrating breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem.
* Strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks such as Scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
* Expertise in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and experience building full‑stack web applications.
* Hands‑on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
* Ability to manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team‑wide development goals to improve client delivery.
* Creative problem‑solving and ownership of successful project outcomes.
* Excellent communication skills, guiding technical teams and non‑technical stakeholders to achieve customer goals.
Interview Process
* Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
* Introduction to the role (45 minutes)
* Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes)
* System Design Interview (90 minutes)
* Commercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes)
Benefits
* Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
* Private healthcare and dental
* Enhanced parental leave
* Family‑Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
* Sanctus Coaching
* Hybrid Working
We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.
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