Forward Deployed Data and AI Tech Lead

Technologies we use

Operating system

• Windows

About the project

Join our Applied AI Engineering team and help design and build solutions that create measurable business value for our clients. You will work across data engineering, AI/ML workflows and agentic AI solutions, often within complex and regulated environments. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will collaborate directly with client teams, rapidly prototype innovative solutions and shape the future of AI-powered transformation.

EY.AI is an environment where AI agents are part of the team and everyday project delivery. You will use solutions tailored to specific business domains, helping analyse data, generate recommendations and design impactful solutions that enable faster decision-making and greater value creation.

Your responsibilities

• Embed directly with client business teams to identify, frame and prioritise high-value data and AI opportunities.
• Design, prototype and demonstrate working solutions spanning data processing, data products, AI/ML workflows and agentic AI solutions using cloud-native technologies.
• Lead a pod of forward-deployed engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing work and removing delivery obstacles while remaining hands-on in development.
• Make pragmatic build, pivot or stop decisions based on business value and validated learning.
• Translate validated prototypes and requirements into scalable, production-ready delivery opportunities.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and bridge business and technical perspectives.
• Promote responsible AI and compliance-by-design principles from the earliest stages of solution development.
• Mentor and develop engineers while contributing to reusable assets, accelerators and engineering best practices.

Our requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field with approximately 8+ years of hands-on software, data or AI engineering experience, including technical or team leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience delivering data or AI solutions from prototype to real-world adoption.
• Strong Python programming skills and solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience across multiple areas including data processing and pipelines, AI/ML workflows, LLM and agentic AI frameworks, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
• Hands-on experience with cloud engineering, preferably Microsoft Azure, as well as AWS and/or Google Cloud, including infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders in consulting, product or forward-deployed environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both business and technical audiences.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, demonstrate strong business acumen and take ownership of outcomes.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work at the forefront of Applied AI Engineering, delivering real business impact for leading organisations.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies across data, AI/ML, agentic AI and cloud platforms.
• Opportunity to lead high-performing engineering teams and influence technical strategy.
• Professional and financial support in obtaining recognised qualifications and certificates.
• EY Badges - global certification of your competencies and the opportunity to earn an MBA title from the prestigious Hult International School of Business.
• Career Counselor - professional, one-to-one guidance on career building and development.
• Psycho-educational platform - a package of free consultations with specialists in the broad field of mental health and personal development and access to educational activities.
• Benefit programme offering private healthcare with additional preventive examinations, life insurance, tickets, team sports, language learning platform, sports cards and much more (available online and offline).
• Convenient hybrid working model.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• fruits
• integration events
• corporate sports team
• mobile phone available for private use
• video games at work
• coffee / tea
• drinks
• sharing the costs of tickets to the movies, theater
• holiday funds
• christmas gifts
• employee referral program
• opportunity to obtain permits and licenses
• charity initiatives
• family picnics

Recruitment stages

• Apply.
• Let's talk.

EY (dawniej Ernst & Young)

We are a global consulting firm - helping businesses, organisations and communities make the most of their potential. Our audit, consulting, legal, strategy, tax and transaction teams ask the non-obvious questions to find new answers to the complex challenges facing the world today.

We employ more than 390,000 exceptional people in over 150 countries around the world. In Poland there are over 7,000 of us, working in: Warsaw, Gdansk, Katowice, Krakow, Lodz, Poznan, Rzeszow and Wroclaw. We create amazing things together every day. We have the people, the development path and the training to help you grow fast, gaining experience on successive projects.

We care about the environment - not just the business. As part of our plan, we have reduced our global greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2023 by 43% from a 2019 baseline.

EY is an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity in the knowledge and experience of our community. We operate the 'Level Up Without Barriers' programme, which supports employees with disabilities to achieve their career ambitions and dreams.

EY provides all applicants with equal opportunities in the recruitment process, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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