Senior AI Platform Lead - ML Strategy & Team Leader

A&O Shearman; Holywood; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A&O Shearman is seeking a Senior AI Engineer (Manager) to lead the AI Platform team in Belfast or London. You will shape the strategy, design, and deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions across the firm, guiding a skilled IT team and external providers.

You will drive lifecycle management of AI capabilities, supervise stakeholder relationships, and align technical work with business outcomes, ensuring scalable architecture and best practices across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and AI model development.
• Proven leadership of large, global IT teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and business acumen.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, design, and implementation of AI/ML use cases across the firm.
• Manage and mentor AI engineering teams and external providers.
• Oversee full lifecycle of AI solutions: model development, validation, deployment, integration.

Skills

ML & DL

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Cloud platforms

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Azure

AWS

GCP

GitHub Copilot

Job description

A&O Shearman is seeking a Senior AI Engineer (Manager) to lead the AI Platform team in Belfast or London. You will shape the strategy, design, and deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions across the firm, guiding a skilled IT team and external providers.

You will drive lifecycle management of AI capabilities, supervise stakeholder relationships, and align technical work with business outcomes, ensuring scalable architecture and best practices across the enterprise.