AI Platform Lead - Production-Grade ML & Automation

Appcast Enterprise; Sunbury-on-Thames; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

bp is seeking an AI/Engineering Leader to design, build and scale production-grade AI solutions for People & Culture. You will own governance, partner with vendors, and drive automation across the AI lifecycle while leading a high-performing engineering and data science team.

You will collaborate with global stakeholders to ensure solutions meet security, compliance and operational robustness. The role requires strong programming, cloud, and MLOps skills, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Actively developing capabilities in line with the P&C capability framework with EQ, IQ and drive.
• Shown experience delivering enterprise-scale systems and AI-enabled solutions in production.
• Strong programming skills (Python preferred; Java or similar acceptable)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and modern DevOps practices
• Experience integrating ML/GenAI models into real-world systems
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, vector search, conversational AI, or unstructured data pipelines
• Familiarity with AI tooling/frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Hugging Face, CrewAI)
• Experience leading SaaS / cloud-based HR or enterprise platforms
• Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision making; e.g. process improvements and candidate experience improvements

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, development and deployment of enterprise AI-enabled solutions aligned to People & Culture priorities
• Own service integrity, governance across AI and digital people platforms
• Partner with external vendors / configuration centres to deliver scalable, compliant solutions globally
• Act as a link between engineering, product, data science ensuring solutions move beyond prototypes into production
• Design, develop and maintain production-grade AI applications and services using cloud-native design, CI/CD, testing and observability
• Define reusable AI platforms and capabilities (e.g. conversational assistants, AI search, unstructured data processing)
• Lead architectural decisions with responsible AI, explainability, security and operational robustness
• Champion automation across the AI lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment and run
• Be the point of accountability for system and solution integrity, incidents and governance
• Define and maintain service catalogues; ensure bp standards and compliance (incl. SoX)
• Chair governance and risk sessions with partners and vendors
• Ensure smooth transition of new solutions into run-state operations
• Lead external vendors ensuring capacity, capability and delivery quality
• Build partnerships with Global Solution Owners, P&C leadership and tech teams
• Embed agile ways of working and continuous improvement across delivery teams
• Translate complex AI concepts into clear business outcomes
• Develop a short & medium-term roadmap of technical change to support strategies
• Lead a portfolio of change projects across the roadmap
• Be a thought-leader in bp AI, VA and automation solutions
• Build strategic relationships with internal leaders and external partners
• Assist I&E in vendor oversight
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentorship across engineering and data science
• Inspire a high-performance, inclusive team and manage budgets

Skills

Python

Java

Cloud platforms

ML/GenAI

LLMs/RAG

AI tooling

SaaS/enterprise platforms

Data analytics

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Haystack

Hugging Face

CrewAI

Job description

bp is seeking an AI/Engineering Leader to design, build and scale production-grade AI solutions for People & Culture. You will own governance, partner with vendors, and drive automation across the AI lifecycle while leading a high-performing engineering and data science team.

You will collaborate with global stakeholders to ensure solutions meet security, compliance and operational robustness. The role requires strong programming, cloud, and MLOps skills, and a track record of delivering