Hybrid Principal Engineering Lead, AI Enabled Solutions

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About the role

  • Principal Engineering Lead at Kantar guiding AI-enabled enterprise platform development. Leading cross-functional collaboration and ensuring engineering excellence in ML and AI systems.

Responsibilities

  • Leading the design and delivery of AI‑enabled enterprise platforms, from early architecture through to production
  • Building and improving applied AI solutions (including LLM-based patterns such as embeddings, retrieval approaches, and model tuning where appropriate)
  • Setting engineering standards for MLOps: CI/CD, model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and operational reliability
  • Architecting secure, cloud-native services (microservices, APIs, messaging/event-driven patterns) that support AI workloads at scale
  • Coaching engineers and collaborating across Engineering, Data Science, and Product to turn complex AI concepts into practical delivery plans

Requirements

  • Experience building, deploying, and maintaining machine learning and generative AI solutions (e.g., LLMs, embeddings, retrieval patterns, vector search, model fine‑tuning)
  • Strong MLOps knowledge across continuous integration, deployment, monitoring, and evaluation of AI/ML models
  • Experience with AI infrastructure (orchestration pipelines, GPU compute, model hosting services) and scalable AI data structures (including vector databases/semantic search)
  • Deep software engineering capability in .NET Core/C# and modern back-end engineering, with flexibility to work across languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native patterns, and modern data stores (SQL and NoSQL)
  • Secure coding mindset with awareness of cybersecurity risks, particularly around AI and data privacy
  • Proven technical leadership (principal engineer/tech lead/architect level), with a track record of mentoring and influencing engineering direction

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid working
  • 25 days leave, 2 days paid for volunteering and life event leave
  • Competitive salary and bonus (bonus dependent on role)
  • Company pension
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Healthcare options
  • Wide range of flexible benefits

Job title

Principal Engineering Lead, AI Enabled Solutions

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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