Senior Technical Lead – AI & Product Engineering

As a Senior Technical Lead, you'll provide architectural leadership across multiple engineering teams while working closely with product, data, AI, and business stakeholders.

This is primarily a technical leadership and architecture role rather than a hands-on development position. You'll be responsible for shaping technical strategy, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring scalable, reliable solutions are delivered across a rapidly expanding product portfolio.

• Lead architecture and technical direction across multiple product teams
• Own solution design and engineering standards
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Drive delivery across AI, software engineering, and data teams
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and production-ready
• Lead technical workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and architectural reviews
• Work closely with stakeholders to define product roadmaps and priorities
• Balance rapid product delivery with long-term platform sustainability

Rate: £800/day Outside IR35
Duration: Initial 6-Month Contract
Location: London (Hybrid)
Office Attendance: 3 days per week onsite (West London)
Interview Process: 2 Stages

We're supporting a major international organisation undergoing a significant digital transformation across its operations and supply chain functions.

This is a greenfield opportunity to join a newly formed engineering organisation responsible for building a suite of AI-powered internal products designed to replace manual processes, spreadsheets, and legacy workflows. The programme has strong executive backing, a growing engineering team, and a roadmap of multiple products with significant business impact.

The first product focuses on leveraging Generative AI and LLMs to automate document analysis, extract structured insights, identify commercial risks, and improve operational efficiency across critical business functions.

Suitable candidates may come from:

• Product-led technology organisations
• Large-scale enterprise engineering environments
• AI-first startups
• Logistics and supply chain businesses
• Retail and e-commerce
• Insurance or other complex operational industries

We're looking for someone who combines strong architectural thinking with a pragmatic product mindset and is comfortable building systems from the ground up.

Beyond technical capability, the team values individuals who are:

• Strategic and commercially minded
• Strong communicators
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Collaborative leaders
• Passionate about AI and modern software engineering
• Able to challenge assumptions and influence senior stakeholders