The Company
Sandhata is a global consultancy providing Next Gen Engineering Services dedicated to transforming businesses. Our services span all facets of Digital Transformation, DevOps & Cloud, Integration, Automation, Low Code Application Development and AI-enabled services. Sandhata is a privately held IT services company with bases in the UK and India operating worldwide to help clients deliver a ‘digital first’ strategy. Sandhata is currently working with clients across various industry sectors, helping them to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that streamline business processes and drive IT efficiency.
The Role
We are seeking a hands-on Head of AI Engineering & Innovation to lead Sandhata’s AI practice, shape our AI strategy, drive innovation initiatives and support the delivery of AI-enabled services, products and tools for both Sandhata and our clients. This role combines technical leadership, coding, solution design, pre-sales support and thought leadership, requiring someone who is equally comfortable building AI solutions as they are presenting them to clients and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead Sandhata’s AI Engineering and Innovation strategy.
- Lead the AI & Innovation Engineering practice.
- Deliver Sandhata’s AI-enabled client solutions, internal tools, platforms, products and innovation projects.
- Innovate and remain hands-on with coding, architecture, engineering and technical problem solving.
- Enable business development through proposals, pitches, workshops and client engagement.
- Role model as a thought leader on AI, innovation and emerging technologies.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leading AI engineering, innovation or AI product teams.
- Strong hands‑on software engineering background with production‑grade development experience.
- Strong Python skills, ideally including FastAPI.
- Strong AWS experience, including services such as Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway and S3.
- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, vector databases and multi‑agent systems.
- Experience building APIs, platforms, tools and AI‑enabled products.
- Familiarity with evaluation and observability tools such as Arize, Promptfoo, LangSmith or MLflow.
- Experience with red teaming, AI safety, testing and governance.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills and experience supporting pre‑sales and client engagements.
- Experience working in regulated sectors such as banking, telecoms or insurance.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Azure cloud and Azure AI services.
- Familiarity with AWS AgentCore.
- Experience with MLOps, monitoring and deployment tooling.
- Knowledge of knowledge graphs and graph databases.
- Experience with low code, automation and integration platforms.
- Familiarity with Front End technologies and product development practices.
- Experience building reusable accelerators and internal developer platforms.
- Exposure to enterprise architecture and solution design.
- Experience delivering innovation programmes or internal transformation initiatives.
Behavioural Competencies
- Strong communicator who can simplify complex technical concepts.
- Commercially aware with a strong business mindset.
- Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands‑on coding and technical delivery.
- Pragmatic, delivery‑focused and able to work through ambiguity.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
What Success Looks like
- Sandhata has a credible and growing AI Engineering and Innovation Practice.
- AI services are recognised and commercially successful part of Sandhata’s offering.
- Sandhata develops reusable AI tools, accelerators and internal capabilities.
- Clients see Sandhata as a trusted advisor for AI and innovation.
- Innovation initiatives deliver measurable value internally and for clients.
Sandhata is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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