Head of Platform Engineering (AI) - Senior Technology Leader - £250,000

Mondrian Alpha

Greater London

On-site

GBP 80,000 - 110,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a highly skilled AI platform engineer to lead and scale a proprietary enterprise AI-first platform. This role offers complete autonomy over development, architecture, and decision-making while transitioning from a third-party team to in-house operations. The engineer will build engineering capabilities, shape offshore models, and has the potential to progress to a CTO position. The ideal candidate has strong experience with Neo4j, LLM/AI capabilities, Kafka, and API-first architecture.

Qualifications

Experience with Neo4j and AI capabilities.
Proficient in Kafka and Java / JVM.
Strong background in API-first architecture.

Responsibilities

Build a global engineering capability.
Stand up and shape offshore delivery model.
Hire and define the internal engineering bar.
Lead strategy, design and architecture.
Remain hands-on with engineering throughout scaling.

Skills

Neo4j

Production grade LLM / AI capabilities

Kafka

Java / JVM

API-first architecture

Job description

A leading consultancy firm are seeking a highly skilled AI platform engineer to join the business and take ownership of a global, large scale, proprietary enterprise AI-first platform. The role offers complete autonomy over the build, architecture and scaling of the platform globally.

The right engineer should bring experience with Neo4j, production grade LLM / AI capabilities (RAG, embeddings, inference pipelines), Kafka, Java / JVM and API-first architecture.

The position offers a rare modernisation opportunity, you'd be transitioning from a third-party engineering team to inhouse - asses, rationalise and rebuild governance, make decisions on build vs buy. The environment is real AI production and scaling.

Responsibilities