Head of Applied AI & SaaS Platform Engineering

loveholidays; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company pension contributions at 5%

Individualised training budget

Discounted holidays for you and family

25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8)

Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Zusammenfassung

loveholidays is seeking a leader to head the Applied AI team within the AI Centre of Excellence. You’ll set technical direction, manage engineers, and drive AI-enabled SaaS platforms used by customers and colleagues.

You’ll work with business verticals, security and senior stakeholders to shape roadmaps and measurable outcomes. You’ll combine people management with hands-on technical leadership across AI workflows, SaaS services, integrations and data pipelines.

Qualifikationen

• Experience line-managing engineers and delivering outcomes.
• Strong experience with SaaS supplier management and budgeting.
• Proven ability to lead cloud-based platform ownership.
• Applied AI workflows incl. retrieval-augmented generation and evaluation.
• Experience with REST API integrations and event-driven systems.

Aufgaben

• Lead Applied AI engineers and set technical direction.
• Oversee relationships with third-party SaaS suppliers and governance.
• Own spend management and cost forecasting for team’s SaaS & AI services.
• Define standards for safe tool access, change management and governance.
• Guide architecture and build-versus-buy decisions; mentor team.

Kenntnisse

People leadership

Delivery leadership

SaaS supplier mgmt

SaaS platform ownership

Applied AI direction

Engineering & integration

Tools

Google ADK

REST APIs

Jobbeschreibung

loveholidays is seeking a leader to head the Applied AI team within the AI Centre of Excellence. You’ll set technical direction, manage engineers, and drive AI-enabled SaaS platforms used by customers and colleagues.

You’ll work with business verticals, security and senior stakeholders to shape roadmaps and measurable outcomes. You’ll combine people management with hands-on technical leadership across AI workflows, SaaS services, integrations and data pipelines.