Tech Lead, Platform (Data & AI)

About the role

A hands-on technical leadership role guiding a company's shift toward data-driven and AI-enabled operations. The person owns platform architecture, mentors a small engineering team, and builds scalable data infrastructure for future AI products and customer insights.

What you will do

• Lead engineering work hands-on across software, data, AI/ML and cloud while managing and mentoring three to five engineers
• Own the platform's technical architecture and set pragmatic engineering frameworks and practices
• Drive build versus buy choices, weighing internal development against third-party platforms and emerging AI services
• Shape data architecture covering pipelines, integrations, models, warehousing and lake systems that keep data reliable and accessible
• Find and pursue AI/ML opportunities, moving promising ideas into production with product and business partners
• Run cloud systems on AWS and Google Cloud, deciding on scalability, cost, security, deployment, monitoring and reliability

What they look for

• Seven or more years in engineering, including at least two to three years in senior technical leadership or people management
• Strong software engineering background
• Ability to stay deeply hands-on, writing code and solving complex engineering problems
• Forward thinking about how growth in products, data volumes and team size will affect technical decisions