Senior AI Technical Lead

Capgemini; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Life insurance

Career Acceleration Programs

Flexible work environment

Referral program with bonuses

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in Portugal is seeking a Senior AI Technical Lead to guide AI initiatives and lead teams in delivering innovative solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of AI, strong leadership experience, and the ability to engage with stakeholders effectively. The successful candidate will have over 5 years of experience in AI projects and the opportunity to work within a flexible hybrid work environment. An attractive compensation package and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AI projects with strong technical leadership.
• Deep knowledge of predictive, prescriptive AI, and GenAI patterns.
• Solid Responsible AI foundation and understanding of modern Data Platforms.
• Strong governance, privacy and responsible AI basics.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AI initiatives from ideation to production.
• Define solution architectures and engineering standards.
• Guide delivery teams through technical challenges.
• Support go-to-market: workshops, proposals, estimates and storytelling.
• Mentor peers, build reusable accelerators, collaborate with hyperscalers.

Skills

AI project leadership

Predictive and prescriptive AI

Cloud integration

Stakeholder management

Fluency in Portuguese and English

Cloud integration

Stakeholder management

Portuguese and English fluency

Tools

Azure ML

SageMaker

Vertex AI

CI/CD

Job description

Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Select your locationSelect your locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Lisboa# Senior AI Techinal Lead## Senior AI Technical LeadChoosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.## YOUR ROLEWe are looking for a Senior AI Technical Manager to strengthen Capgemini Portugal's Data & AI team. This professional will be responsible for technically leading the development and delivery of AI solutions, shaping and evolving our AI offering and acting as a trusted technical advisor for both clients and internal stakeholders. The role combines hands-on architecture leadership, delivery oversight and contribution to commercial initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure and aligned with business outcomes.In this role you will be responsible for:* Lead end-to-end AI initiatives (predictive/prescriptive AI and GenAI) from ideation to production;* Define solution architectures and engineering standarts (MLOps/LLMOps, monitoring, CI/CD, scalability, security);* Guide delivery teams through technical challenges, ensuring quality, performance and cost efficiency;* Support go-to-market and pre-sales: workshops, solutioning, proposals/RFPs, estimates, and technical storytelling;* Build reusable assets/accelerators and promote best practices and mentoring across the community;* Collaborate with hyperscalers and partners (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging services such as Azure ML, SageMaker, Vertex AI.We are looking for a Senior AI Technical Manager to strengthen Capgemini Portugal's Data & AI team. This professional will be responsible for technically leading the development and delivery of AI solutions, shaping and evolving our AI offering and acting as a trusted technical advisor for both clients and internal stakeholders. The role combines hands-on architecture leadership, delivery oversight and contribution to commercial initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure and aligned with business outcomes.In this role you will be responsible for:* Lead end-to-end AI initiatives (predictive/prescriptive AI and GenAI) from ideation to production;* Define solution architectures and engineering standarts (MLOps/LLMOps, monitoring, CI/CD, scalability, security);* Guide delivery teams through technical challenges, ensuring quality, performance and cost efficiency;* Support go-to-market and pre-sales: workshops, solutioning, proposals/RFPs, estimates, and technical storytelling;* Build reusable assets/accelerators and promote best practices and mentoring across the community;* Collaborate with hyperscalers and partners (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging services such as Azure ML, SageMaker, Vertex AI.## YOUR PROFILE* 5+ years of experience in AI projects with strong technical leadership (architecture/tech lead roles);* Deep knowledge of predictive and prescriptive AI, GenAI patterns (e.g., RAG/agents), and LLMOps/MLOps;* Strong understanding of modern Data Platforms (lakehouse/warehouse), data pipelines, and cloud integration;* Solid Responsible AI foundation (privacy, fairness, transparency, governance, risk management);* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; structured problem solving and ownership mindset;* Fluency in Portuguese and English (spoken and written).* At Capgemini Portugal we have a flexible and dynamic work environment. Flexibility enables a better work-life balance and gives more flexibility to the employee to manage the working hours, as well if he works at the office or remotely, according with the company’s hybrid work policy;* We have local programs that promote people growth, reskill and new skills development (Career Acceleration Programs);* We promote an empowering environment with autonomy and peers' relationships among the top scores of our Monthly Employees' feedback; Next to this, we also offer an attractive compensation package and benefits such as Health and Life insurance, as well as Referral program with bonuses for talent recommendations and other fringe benefits according with our partnerships in force.* Capgemini Portugal is an equal opportunity employer. We promote equality and dignity in all aspects of recruitment and employment, as well as employment offers and promotions made according with competence and ability or performance, respectively.Experience levelExperienced ProfessionalsLocationLisboa