MLOps Tech Lead: End-to-End ML Platform & Team

Uniting Ambition; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Uniting Ambition is recruiting on behalf of a major, well-established organisation in West London for an MLOps Technical Manager. You will lead a growing ML engineering function, delivering scalable ML systems including predictive maintenance and fault detection.

You'll own end-to-end technical delivery from backend infrastructure to frontend integration, mentoring a team of engineers in a hands-on leadership role (approximately 40% hands-on) with strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Software, Data, or ML Eng roles.
• Tech Lead experience managing 5+ engineers.
• Proven end-to-end ML/AI systems delivery.
• Hands-on Python expertise.
• Experience with MLflow & AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of ML systems from backend to frontend.
• Lead architectural decisions across the ML stack.
• Migrate from MLflow to AWS SageMaker.
• Define MLOps best practices across training, serving, monitoring, deployment.
• Design scalable ML infrastructure for batch and real-time.
• Oversee ETL/ELT pipelines and data processing at scale.
• Develop React-based frontend interfaces to surface insights.
• Champion CI/CD and engineering excellence.
• Mentor a team of engineers.

Skills

Python

MLOps

Team Lead

AWS

React

Data Pipelines

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

MLflow

Docker

Spark

Kafka

React

Job description

Uniting Ambition is recruiting on behalf of a major, well-established organisation in West London for an MLOps Technical Manager. You will lead a growing ML engineering function, delivering scalable ML systems including predictive maintenance and fault detection.

You'll own end-to-end technical delivery from backend infrastructure to frontend integration, mentoring a team of engineers in a hands-on leadership role (approximately 40% hands-on) with strong stakeholder engagement.