We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead / Platform Architect to help build and scale a complex AI-driven platform. This role is ideal for someone who can combine strong technical architecture skills with practical delivery leadership.
The successful candidate will work closely with the AI/product lead to translate strategic vision into a scalable, secure, and well-governed engineering roadmap. They will provide technical oversight, guide implementation, define architecture standards, and coordinate multiple developers as the team grows.
This is not a pure management role. We need someone who can actively shape the platform, make sound engineering decisions, and lead by doing.
Requirements
- Own the technical architecture for a multi-module AI-driven platform
- Define and maintain service boundaries, integration patterns, APIs, schemas, and engineering standards
- Lead day-to-day technical execution across multiple developers
- Translate product and AI strategy into clear, buildable engineering plans
- Ensure the platform remains cohesive, scalable, secure, and maintainable as new modules are introduced
Establish best practices for:
- System design
- Code quality
- Documentation
- Testing
- Deployment
- Observability
- Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs
- Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring of engineers as the team expands
- Work closely with leadership to balance speed of delivery with oversight and governance
- Act as the technical bridge between innovation, architecture, and execution
What This Role Owns:
Engineering oversight, platform architecture, technical delivery structure, developer coordination and quality and scalability of implementation.
Required Experience:
- Proven experience as an Engineering Lead, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Solutions/Platform Architect
- Strong background designing and delivering scalable software platforms
- Experience leading developers in a fast-moving product or platform environment
- Deep understanding of: Distributed systems, API and integration design, event-driven or service-oriented architecture and cloud-based deployment patterns, ability to make practical architectural decisions while keeping delivery moving
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in an evolving environment where structure is still being defined:
Preferred Experience
- Experience working on AI-enabled products or data-intensive platforms
- Exposure to security, intelligence, risk, or decision-support systems
- Familiarity with governance, auditability, and operational controls in complex platforms
- Experience setting up engineering processes for a growing team
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is:
- Technically strong and credible with engineers
- Structured and disciplined in architecture
- Practical and delivery-oriented
- Comfortable taking ownership
- Capable of leading without creating bureaucracy
- Able to bring order, clarity, and momentum to a growing technical function
