MLOps Technical Lead

Tech Lead - MLOps | 6-Month Contract (Extension Likely)

Hybrid: Two days on-site every other week
Day Rate: Competitive, inside IR35

We're supporting a major organisation investing heavily in AI and Machine Learning, looking for an experienced Tech Lead to lead the delivery of production ML platforms.

This is a leadership role, owning a product area and leading multidisciplinary teams across Software Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps and Data Science while driving MLOps best practice.

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  6+ years in a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager or similar leadership role.

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  Experience leading engineering teams of 15+.

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  Strong Python and TypeScript experience.

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  Recent hands-on MLOps experience across the full ML life cycle.

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  AWS experience.

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  Knowledge of ML platforms such as SageMaker, MLflow or similar.

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  Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills.

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This role is suited to someone with recent end-to-end MLOps experience, from model training and deployment through to monitoring and operational management, rather than a purely GenAI or LLM-focused background.