Ai Engineering Lead

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

**AI Engineering Lead**:
**Role Overview**:
We are seeking an experienced and visionary **AI Engineering Lead** to drive the development and deployment of AI-powered systems and platforms. This role blends deep technical expertise in AI/ML with leadership and strategic delivery capabilities. You will lead a team of AI engineers and collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to build scalable, production-grade AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Leadership & Strategy**
- Lead and grow a high-performing AI engineering team.
- Define AI engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap aligned with business goals.
- Champion best practices in MLOps, model governance, and responsible AI.

- **Engineering & Delivery**
- Design and implement scalable AI systems including model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Translate prototypes into robust, production-ready solutions in collaboration with data scientists.
- Maintain high standards of code quality, testing, and documentation.

- **Platform & Infrastructure**
- Build and maintain AI/ML platforms and tooling to accelerate experimentation and deployment.
- Oversee and evolve Azure Foundry / Databricks-based AI environments.
- Integrate AI capabilities into products via APIs, microservices, or embedded intelligence.
- Drive automation, observability, and performance optimization across AI pipelines.

- **Collaboration & Communication**
- Work cross-functionally to identify and prioritize AI opportunities.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies and assess their business applicability.

**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in AI/ML engineering.
- Proven leadership experience in delivering AI solutions at scale.
- Strong Python skills and experience with frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face.
- Expertise in MLOps, CI/CD for ML, and cloud-native AI architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and ML workflow orchestration.
- Familiarity with agentic frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Microsoft Semantic Kernel).
- Experience with API management and microservices architecture.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience with LLMs, generative AI, or reinforcement learning.
- Knowledge of vector databases, RAG, and prompt engineering.
- Understanding of data privacy, model explainability, and ethical AI.
- Familiarity with communication protocols like MCP and Google’s A2A.
- Experience with frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript).
- Contributions to open-source AI projects or published research.

**What We Offer**:

- Access to cutting-edge AI tools and infrastructure.
- Opportunities to shape the future of AI in a fast-growing organisation.

**Ready to make an impact?**

**Application**

If this role is of interest to you please upload a recent copy of your CV and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

We believe that equal opportunities means inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.

As we have expanded recently into alcohol ready to drink Jack Daniel’s and Coca-Cola we recognise that some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you - please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.

We aim to make our recruitment process as comfortable and accessible as possible and would appreciate it if you would advise us of any particular requirements, adjustments or requests you may have to help us ensure that your experience is enjoyable.

**Job Information**:
Hiring Manager: Rajesh Mahajan
Recruiter: Tegan McColl
Grade: G2
Location: Pan EU : United Kingdom:CCEP Site Locations : Uxbridge || Pan EU : Portugal:Lisboa e Vale Do Tejo : Lisboa || Pan EU : Spain:Cataluna : Barcelona || Pan EU : Spain:Madrid : Madrid

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) - a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks. We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world.