Engineering Leader/AI LEAD/Architect

Experience & Background

• 1517 years in software engineering with a significant portion in leadership roles managing multi-team, multi-million-dollar programmes.
• Hands-on track record of delivering platform build, legacy modernisation, and greenfield application programmes on cloud — not just oversight, but technical depth you can draw on in client conversations.

Technical Stack & Architecture

• .NET Full-Stack (C#, ASP.NET Core, Azure-native services) and/or Java Distributed Systems (Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes) — you can assess architecture quality, not just read status reports.
• Python stack experience (FastAPI, Django/Flask, pandas, NumPy) particularly for data pipelines, AI/ML integrations, and automation scripts.
• Cloud-native delivery on Azure, AWS, or GCP; Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and observability are second nature.
• Practical experience designing and deploying agentic AI systems — LLM orchestration, tool-use patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent workflows in an enterprise context.

AI & Automation Fluency

• Hands-on experience with enterprise AI coding and productivity tools — GitHub Copilot / Claude (Anthropic), and / or Cursor — applied meaningfully across design, development, review, and documentation phases of the SDLC.
• Understands where AI drives automation, acceleration, and efficiency within IT application landscapes — and equally where it introduces risk that must be managed, especially in regulated domains.
• Ability to differentiate between AI hype and production-ready tooling; pragmatic evaluator of what to adopt, when, and how.

Leadership & Commercial Acumen

• Proven P&L ownership at $10M+ scale — comfortable with revenue forecasting, margin management, SOW negotiations, and change order governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management with both internal leaders and senior client executives; able to hold a room, manage difficult conversations, and build long-term advisory relationships.
• Growth mindset — actively invests in own learning and models the same for the team.