Technical Lead - AI and Data · Bristol ·

Our benefits include:

• Share Options (EMI) scheme
• 25 days annual leave, plus flexible bank holidays and the opportunity to buy additional days
• Enhanced workplace Pension scheme - opt in salary sacrifice scheme
• Life Insurance (3x annual salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and workplace wellbeing initiatives
• Private Healthcare cash-back scheme
• Flexible working hours and location, open to part-time/condensed hours
• Flexible benefits, such as: Cycle to Work, volunteer days/opportunities and charity events
• Enhanced parental leave packages and enhanced sick pay
• Training and development opportunities
• Engagement and celebration activities – anniversaries, birthdays, team building, company-wide events

Role specifics:

• Salary range: up to £100,000
• Reporting to: Application Development Director
• Key stakeholders: Tech and Product teams
• Organisational Framework Level: Level 4

About you/Job Summary:

Be the catalyst for change—drive intelligent automation that helps investigators use AI-enabled workflows to prioritise investigations, surface insights, and allow teams to work collaboratively at pace to achieve successful, measurable outcomes. As a Technical Leader for AI and Data at Clue, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating automation and efficiency improvements across investigation workflows supported by our SaaS product. You will lead by example, acting as a senior technical contributor while coordinating the work of a high-performing team. Your deep expertise in AI, data engineering, and cloud-native development will help shape the future of our platform.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the technical development of our AI and data initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and product strategy.
• Act as a senior hands-on contributor (approx. 90% of your time), designing and developing scalable AI and data solutions.
• Mentor and support the growth of team members through technical guidance, code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Coordinate and oversee the technical work of the team, ensuring high-quality delivery and adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering and QA to deliver impactful features and improvements.
• Drive the automation of intelligent workflows across the platform.
• Ensure solutions are secure, maintainable and performant, with a strong focus on data privacy and compliance.

Key role measures:

• Delivery of high-impact features delivered by AI and data engineering aligned with product goals and schedules.
• Demonstrated leadership through mentorship, technical direction, and team coordination.
• Code and solutions that are secure, scalable, and maintainable.
• Positive collaboration and communication across teams.

Experience and skills:

Our ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:

• Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering AI and data projects in a cloud environment (preferably Azure).
• Strong hands-on development skills. Our main application stack is based on .Net and C#.
• Deep understanding of machine learning, data pipelines, and MLOps practices.
• Experience with Azure services such as Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Azure Functions.
• Implementing modern retrieval techniques such as vector search, semantic search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using tools like Azure Cognitive Search, FAISS, Pinecone, or Weaviate.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and ethical AI principles.
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and monitoring.
• Applied knowledge of secure coding standards and data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR).
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and working in cross-functional teams.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us more about yourself. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. We believe that seeing the world from all sorts of angles makes life better for all. We want you to know that the things that make you an individual, like your identity, age, ethnicity, religion, ability and background, are things that we choose to celebrate and support. We are a scale-up company, and as we continue to grow, we are passionate that having a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace will remain at our core. We are creating an inclusive environment where our people can thrive. Our values are aligned and at the heart of everything we do. We are respectful, united, rigorous, relentless and ethical.