About this role
About the Role Lead Data Engineer — AI Search to join Valtech and lead enterprise-scale AI, search, and conversational platform initiatives. The role focuses on translating architecture into scalable, production-ready solutions and coordinating across multidisciplinary teams to ensure delivery quality and long-term platform health. What You'll Do
- Define detailed technical design, components, interfaces, and integration patterns.
- Lead development teams and enforce engineering standards and best practices.
- Coordinate architecture, cloud/platform, data, QA, and business stakeholders.
- Ensure delivery quality through testing, observability, and application security practices.
- Guide teams on GCP and AI Search implementation patterns.
- Lead technical discovery, estimation, and solution design workshops.
- Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies early.
- Ensure scalable, reliable, and production-ready AI solutions.
- Contribute hands-on in complex and high-impact technical areas.
- Support industrialization and operationalization of AI and search use cases. What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AI ecosystems.
- Experience with AI Search, conversational AI, and generative AI integrations.
- Strong application architecture, API design, and enterprise integration experience.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Ability to own architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering maturity.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Compensation & Benefits
- (Details not specified in posting)