AI & Automation Lead in Bolton

Bolton Full-Time No working from home possible

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We’re looking for an AI & Automation Lead to provide hands‑on technical leadership across an established AI engineering team.

This is a technical role for someone with strong AI engineering experience and hands‑on n8n expertise, who enjoys building solutions, solving complex engineering problems and helping other engineers deliver high‑quality work.

You’ll lead the technical delivery across a team of three AI Engineers while remaining hands‑on with coding and technically complex work yourself.

A key part of the role will be helping mature the existing AI and automation environment – establishing robust n8n engineering standards, improving monitoring and resilience, and ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and production‑ready.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll provide day‑to‑day technical leadership to the AI engineering team, helping determine how solutions are designed, built, deployed and supported.

You’ll:

Lead the technical design and delivery of AI, LLM and GenAI solutions
Remain hands‑on with coding and development, particularly on technically complex or novel work
Establish and embed a robust n8n design and implementation framework
Define appropriate monitoring and alerting across workflow automation services
Improve the resilience and reliability of existing AI solutions and processes
Support AI Engineers with solution design, technical challenges and engineering decisions
Set and maintain high standards around coding, development, testing and deployment
Review technical approaches and code, identifying potential issues before they reach production
Ensure AI and automation solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and production‑ready
Lead a team of three AI Engineers, managing priorities, workloads and technical delivery
Provide technical 1:1s, mentoring and support, helping remove blockers and develop the team
Set team objectives and identify where additional technical resource may be required
Develop reusable components, templates and engineering best practice
Work alongside wider internal and offshore technical teams
Support effective cost management across n8n and AI processes

What we’re looking for?

There are two key areas of experience we're looking for: hands‑on AI engineering and strong n8n experience.

You’ll have:

Hands‑on experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions into production, including production coding experience
Strong knowledge of LLMs, Generative AI and agentic system design
Strong hands‑on experience with n8n, building and implementing workflow automation solutions
Experience taking AI solutions from design through to production deployment
Experience designing reliable, scalable and maintainable technical solutions
An understanding of monitoring, alerting and resilience within production environments
The technical depth to guide other engineers and make sound engineering decisions
Experience setting or implementing engineering standards and best practice
Experience deploying AI/ML solutions using Azure, AWS or GCP
Experience leading and developing engineers, including mentoring, technical guidance and managing priorities
A good understanding of data management, security and compliance within AI delivery

Experience with RPA technologies such as Blue Prism would be useful, but isn't essential.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced AI Engineer who wants to combine hands‑on engineering with technical team leadership. You’ll inherit a team of three AI Engineers and play a key role in strengthening the technical foundations around both AI and n8n – improving how solutions are built, monitored, supported and scaled.

You might currently be a Lead AI Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, AI Technical Lead, AI Engineering Lead or an experienced AI/Automation Engineer already providing technical leadership to others.

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