AI & Automation Lead

Noux Talent; Bolton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Noux Talent in Bolton seeks an AI & Automation Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership across an established AI engineering team. You will lead the technical delivery across a team of three AI Engineers while remaining hands-on with coding and complex work yourself.

A key part of the role is maturing the AI and automation environment, establishing robust n8n standards, improving monitoring and resilience, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and production-ready.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions into production
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, GenAI and agentic system design
• Hands-on experience with n8n for workflow automation
• Experience taking AI solutions from design through to production deployment
• Experience designing reliable, scalable and maintainable technical solutions
• Understanding of monitoring, alerting and resilience in production environments
• Technical depth to guide other engineers and make sound engineering decisions
• Experience deploying AI/ML solutions using major cloud providers
• Leadership experience mentoring and prioritizing work

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of AI, LLM and GenAI solutions
• Remain hands-on with coding on complex work
• Establish and embed an n8n design and implementation framework
• Define monitoring and alerting across workflow automation services
• Improve resilience and reliability of AI solutions and processes
• Support AI Engineers with solution design and engineering decisions
• Set and maintain high coding, testing and deployment standards
• Review approaches and code to catch issues before production
• Ensure AI/automation solutions are scalable and production-ready
• Lead a team of three AI Engineers and manage priorities and delivery
• Provide technical 1:1s, mentoring and blockers removal
• Develop reusable components and best practices
• Collaborate with wider internal and offshore teams
• Support cost management across n8n and AI processes

Skills

AI Engineering

n8n

Team Leadership

Production ML

Cloud Platforms

Tools

n8n

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

AI Engineering | LLMs | GenAI | Agentic AI | n8n | Technical Leadership | Cloud

We’re looking for an AI & Automation Lead to provide hands‑on technical leadership across an established AI engineering team.

This is a technical role for someone with strong AI engineering experience and hands‑on n8n expertise, who enjoys building solutions, solving complex engineering problems and helping other engineers deliver high‑quality work.

You’ll lead the technical delivery across a team of three AI Engineers while remaining hands‑on with coding and technically complex work yourself.

A key part of the role will be helping mature the existing AI and automation environment – establishing robust n8n engineering standards, improving monitoring and resilience, and ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and production‑ready.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll provide day‑to‑day technical leadership to the AI engineering team, helping determine how solutions are designed, built, deployed and supported.

You’ll:

• Lead the technical design and delivery of AI, LLM and GenAI solutions
• Remain hands‑on with coding and development, particularly on technically complex or novel work
• Establish and embed a robust n8n design and implementation framework
• Define appropriate monitoring and alerting across workflow automation services
• Improve the resilience and reliability of existing AI solutions and processes
• Support AI Engineers with solution design, technical challenges and engineering decisions
• Set and maintain high standards around coding, development, testing and deployment
• Review technical approaches and code, identifying potential issues before they reach production
• Ensure AI and automation solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and production‑ready
• Lead a team of three AI Engineers, managing priorities, workloads and technical delivery
• Provide technical 1:1s, mentoring and support, helping remove blockers and develop the team
• Set team objectives and identify where additional technical resource may be required
• Develop reusable components, templates and engineering best practice
• Work alongside wider internal and offshore technical teams
• Support effective cost management across n8n and AI processes

What we’re looking for?

There are two key areas of experience we're looking for: hands‑on AI engineering and strong n8n experience.

You’ll have:

• Hands‑on experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions into production, including production coding experience
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, Generative AI and agentic system design
• Strong hands‑on experience with n8n, building and implementing workflow automation solutions
• Experience taking AI solutions from design through to production deployment
• Experience designing reliable, scalable and maintainable technical solutions
• An understanding of monitoring, alerting and resilience within production environments
• The technical depth to guide other engineers and make sound engineering decisions
• Experience setting or implementing engineering standards and best practice
• Experience deploying AI/ML solutions using Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience leading and developing engineers, including mentoring, technical guidance and managing priorities
• A good understanding of data management, security and compliance within AI delivery

Experience with RPA technologies such as Blue Prism would be useful, but isn't essential.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced AI Engineer who wants to combine hands‑on engineering with technical team leadership. You’ll inherit a team of three AI Engineers and play a key role in strengthening the technical foundations around both AI and n8n – improving how solutions are built, monitored, supported and scaled.

You might currently be a Lead AI Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, AI Technical Lead, AI Engineering Lead or an experienced AI/Automation Engineer already providing technical leadership to others.