60% Malaga: Technical Lead (TL) (m/f/d) – Data & AI

Technical Lead (TL) / (m/f/d) – Data & AI

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead (TL) to provide end-to-end technical leadership and governance across the DART teams (Data & AI). The TL acts as the primary technical authority connecting multiple organisations and delivery units (ACOE, AIDA, D&A, Local Markets), owning technical standards, cost governance, and platform integrity. This is a full-time, dedicated role with no split delivery responsibilities.

- Act as the single point of ownership for technical problems and their resolution across all Data & AI initiatives

- Manage priorities and dependencies across four key actors (ACOE, AIDA, D&A, Local Markets), facilitating negotiations and resolving conflicts

- Own engineering and architectural standards across the organisation

- Approve or reject technical demand based on cost and sustainability

- Define and maintain golden paths for data ingestion, transformation, and serving

- Establish and chair a Technical Assurance Board with clear roles, decision rights, and transparent communication

- Partner with Finance on budgeting and forecasting

- Lead platform rationalisation: reviewing legacy artefacts, freezing non-standard data movement paths, migrating non-standard solutions

- Define and enforce telemetry, observability, and monitoring standards

- Create a safe space for innovation and experimentation while balancing long-term sustainability

- Track, document, and share lessons learned across programmes and markets

- Promote parametrised, reusable engineering patterns as default practice

- Escalate risks that threaten platform standards, budgets, or long-term sustainability

Required Skills & Experience

- Senior/Principal-level experience in Data & AI engineering or architecture

- Strong hands-on background with GCP (including cost optimisation and Cloud Smart tooling)

- Deep expertise in data engineering: ingestion, transformation, serving, data pipelines

- Proven experience in technical governance at enterprise scale (standards, architecture boards, cost control)

- Strong stakeholder management skills – ability to align and influence across multiple business units and markets

- Experience with platform rationalisation and legacy migration

- Solid understanding of telemetry, observability, and monitoring frameworks

- Track record of defining and enforcing engineering standards and best practices

- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and cost modelling in a technical context

- Excellent communication and decision-making skills with high accountability