Senior AI/ML Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

8th Light is seeking a seasoned technologist to lead architecture and AI/ML integrations across diverse client engagements. You will drive production-grade coding and mentor teams while aligning with client leadership on roadmaps and risks.

You will guide the full ML lifecycle, ensure reliable deployments, and foster a culture of learning and collaboration. This role emphasizes stakeholder empathy, high-quality delivery, and strategic thinking in complex environments.

Qualifications

• Typically 7+ years of long-term, repeated success across a variety of projects.
• Successfully led high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production.
• Production-quality coding experience across Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Lead as a technologist across varied client projects and technologies.
• Make immediate project contributions and rapidly build client trust.
• Balance technology choices pragmatically while delivering high-quality work within deadlines.
• Lead architecture and software design discussions.
• Collaborate on systems spanning the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing through model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
• Generate technical and non-technical solutions with team members and clients.
• Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations through retrospectives.
• Document outcomes and drive action items forward.
• Model 8th Light's Values and contribute to team and company culture.
• Ensure a healthy, prioritized, and estimated team backlog.
• Manage high-level project roadmaps for large engagements.
• Maintain relationships with client technical leaders.
• Conduct regular client status and risk-review syncs and present potential solutions.
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress.
• Mentor, lead or design internal/client workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Ambiguity navigation

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Java

C#/.NET

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Go

Ruby

Scala

SQL

Databricks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

CrewAI

N8n

RAG Pipelines

Git

CI/CD

MacOS

Linux

Job description

8th Light is seeking a seasoned technologist to lead architecture and AI/ML integrations across diverse client engagements. You will drive production-grade coding and mentor teams while aligning with client leadership on roadmaps and risks.

You will guide the full ML lifecycle, ensure reliable deployments, and foster a culture of learning and collaboration. This role emphasizes stakeholder empathy, high-quality delivery, and strategic thinking in complex environments.