ABOUT IAG AI

IAG.ai is a new growing team within the International Airlines Group (British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, Aer Lingus, IAG Loyalty, IAG Cargo, IAG Tech), with a mission to accelerate time to value and our market position through the use of Artificial Intelligence, working with multiple Operating Companies across the IAG group.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Principal Engineer to join our IAG.ai team. As a Principal Engineer, you will play a crucial role in leveraging data and tools to uncover valuable insights, drive data-driven decision-making, and support our organization’s goals.
Job Description
As the AI Engineering Lead, you will be pivotal in driving material EBIT impact through application of AI across the Group. Reporting to the Group Head of Software Engineering and aligned to the Group’s Head of AI, you will be accountable for ensuring technical designs and overarching technology strategy provide an optimal balance between cost, risk, time to value, and all other considerations, for AI solutions and ML platform development.
Critically, you will provide significant input into product architecture for re-usable AI products that can be adopted by more than one part of the Group. In so doing you will maximise re-use potential whilst minimising any associated product premium. This will involve articulating and mitigating technical risks in a disciplined and data-driven manner and supporting development of technical blueprints that left-shift discovery and early value release, and subsequently evolve into fully industrialised enterprise AI products. And you will continuously monitor and reduce internal consumers’ effort required to discover and adopt these AI-powered products by treating colleagues as customers and optimizing the associated journeys.
You will also be accountable for the technical direction for AI / ML platforms, including lightweight generative AI abstraction and the route to live and runtime platform for ML development. And you will ensure that all teams operate a structured, agile technical governance process which supports rapid and auditable decision-making with appropriately devolved responsibilities, evidencing conformance to all standards and guardrails for re-usable technical components, design patterns, interfaces and machine learning models.
You will maintain an “always-on” view of the ever-changing external AI landscape, and lead on modelling the costs and benefits of individual generative models and associated implementation approaches (GraphRAG, RAG etc.)
You will also work with tech leads and technical architects in all IAG’s AI Labs (currently London and Barcelona) to build an aligned community of enthusiastic, forward-looking pragmatists who continuously challenge themselves to learn and improve as individuals whilst also driving incremental improvements to ROI for AI investments across the Group.
Qualifications
At least 10 years of experience working in the data science / AI / software domain, with a proven track record of delivery of tangible value (EBIT etc.)
Experience of successfully leading software products from the technical perspective, ensuring code is developed to high quality and security standards
Strong understanding of software development and DevSecOps best practices •Enthusiastic, optimistic, forward-looking
Airline industry experience (preferred)
Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse and cross-functional team.
Strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to translate business problems and opportunities into potential AI solutions and actions.
Ability to frame complex technical considerations for consumption by time-poor executives to support decision-making and education
Additional Information

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