Team Lead - AI Software Engineer - Java

Our client - a global automotive systems industry leader - is looking to hire an AI Software Engineering Team Lead to join them on an initial 6-month contract, with a view to transition to permanent employment.

This role will be managing a small team of high-performing developers, on AI-forward projects in which you will be implementing AI solutions and technologies, as well as incorporating AI into how your work on a daily basis (for example, Claude Code, Copilot).

This role is remote-working (with some occasional visits to site, near London), and will be operating inside IR35.

• Deep expertise with Java / Spring / AWS
• Hands on production grade experience - or least PoC for LLMs
  • They will be creating agents and creating code that can run on production as AI agents
• Customer facing software/platform re-write experience
• Deep technical expertise in modern and AI-driven systems (engineering and architecture levels)
• Ownership of end-to-end, scalable architectures (some cloud-native, some on-prem still)
• Org-level technical leadership and influence
• Exceptional problem-solving and engineering judgment
• Strategic alignment with product and business outcomes