Tech Lead: AI‑Driven Cloud‑Native Systems

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge

Hybrid

GBP 53,000 - 71,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Discretionary annual bonus

Group personal pension scheme

Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary

Green travel schemes

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive AI-enabled software delivery in a hybrid Cambridge setting. You will lead a cross-functional squad, architect systems, write or review code, and ensure secure, auditable outputs for assessments using hosted language models.

You will mentor engineers, align with enterprise direction, and maintain strong collaboration with subject-matter experts to balance technical excellence with exam integrity and user-centric

Qualifications

Hands-on tech lead with cloud-native architecture and LLM-based products.
Experience delivering AI-enabled solutions into production.
Ability to mentor teams and work with domain experts.

Responsibilities

Lead AI-enabled solution delivery for AI-assisted assessment content and workflows.
Architect, review code and drive end-to-end delivery from idea to live use.
Collaborate with examiners and assessment experts to ensure quality and auditable decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Language models

Cloud-native architecture

CI/CD

Observability

Microservices

Serverless

Containerisation

Infrastructure as Code

Security awareness

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Tools

AWS

Job description

You will mentor engineers, align with enterprise direction, and maintain strong collaboration with subject-matter experts to balance technical excellence with exam integrity and user-centric

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