AI Engineering Team Lead

Were looking for AI Engineering Team Lead to help shape the future of AI-first decisioning platforms within our Sofia engineering organization. This is a high-impact leadership role where youll combine deep technical expertise architectural ownership and people leadership to deliver intelligent systems at scale.

Youll play a pivotal role in transforming how we build software - embedding AI into the core of our platforms driving innovation and building teams that deliver meaningful business outcomes.

You will report to Software Engineering Director.

What youll do:

• Lead the design and delivery of AI-native production-grade systems integrated into core decisioning platforms
• Build and operate scalable secure high-performance AI services
• Define architecture system design and engineering standards across teams
• Embed AI capabilities into business-critical workflows
• Contribute hands-on to development using modern backend technologies and best engineering practices
• Champion clean code testing and engineering excellence across the SDLC
• Lead grow and manage a team of engineers with clear ownership and accountability
• Coach and develop team members in both software engineering and AI capabilities
• Drive performance feedback and career development processes
• Promote adoption of AI engineering practices including model integration and lifecycle management
• Strengthen AI capability across the Sofia engineering organization

Qualifications :

What youll bring:

• Strong background in software engineering particularly Java backend systems and distributed architectures
• Proven experience leading teams as a hands-on line manager
• Demonstrated success delivering scalable production-grade systems in enterprise environments
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML or Generative AI solutions in production
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into robust technical solutions
• Solid experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and modern engineering ecosystems (CI/CD containers)
• Understanding of AI system design evaluation and operational practices (e.g. LLMOps)
• Experience in regulated or data-intensive environments is a strong advantage

Additional Information :

You will get:

• Personal Development - career pathway for professional growth supported by learning and development programs and unlimited access to online educational training courses learning materials and books.
• Work environment - excellent work conditions with friendly environment recognized team spirit and fun and quality recreation time.
• Social benefit package including life insurance food vouchers additional health insurance monthly flex allowance and internet coverage corporate discounts marriage and childbirth / adoption allowance Multisport card Sharesave plan Employee assistance program а birthday gift and many other benefits!
• Work-life balance - 25 days paid vacation 1 additional day off for your birthday and extra 3 paid days for participation in Social responsibility event.
• Opportunity for Flexible working hours and Home Office.

Experian is an Equal opportunity employer. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work irrespective of their gender ethnicity religion colour sexuality physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time