Team Lead - AI Software Engineer - Java
Posted 1 week ago by Korn Ferry
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: Our client, a leader in the global automotive systems industry, seeks an AI Software Engineering Team Lead for an initial 6-month contract with potential for permanent employment. The role involves managing a team of developers on AI-focused projects, implementing AI solutions, and requires deep technical expertise in Java, Spring, and AWS. This position is remote with occasional site visits near London and operates inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a small team of developers on AI-forward projects.
- Implement AI solutions and technologies in daily work.
- Create agents and code that can run on production as AI agents.
- Lead customer-facing software/platform re-writes.
- Provide technical leadership and influence at the organizational level.
- Own end-to-end, scalable architectures, both cloud-native and on-premises.
- Ensure strategic alignment with product and business outcomes.
Key Skills:
- Deep expertise with Java, Spring, and AWS.
- Hands-on production-grade experience or PoC for LLMs.
- Experience in creating customer-facing software/platform re-writes.
- Deep technical expertise in modern and AI-driven systems.
- Exceptional problem-solving and engineering judgment.
- Ability to align technical work with product and business outcomes.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Our client - a global automotive systems industry leader - is looking to hire an AI Software Engineering Team Lead to join them on an initial 6-month contract, with a view to transition to permanent employment. This role will be managing a small team of high-performing developers, on AI-forward projects in which you will be implementing AI solutions and technologies, as well as incorporating AI into how your work on a daily basis (for example, Claude Code, Copilot). This role is remote-working (with some occasional visits to site, near London), and will be operating inside IR35.
Requirements:
- Deep expertise with Java / Spring / AWS
- Hands on production grade experience - or least PoC for LLM's
- They will be creating agents and creating code that can run on production as AI agents
- Customer facing software/platform re-write experience
- Deep technical expertise in modern and AI-driven systems (engineering and architecture levels)
- Ownership of end-to-end, scalable architectures (some cloud-native, some on-prem still)
- Org-level technical leadership and influence
- Exceptional problem-solving and engineering judgment
- Strategic alignment with product and business outcomes
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