AI Engineering Team Lead

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Job Description

We're 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 you'll combine deep technical expertise, architectural ownership, and people leadership to deliver intelligent systems at scale.

You'll 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 you'll 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 you'll 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
• 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

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.

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