International consulting group founded in 2019, Ekkiden fosters an ecosystem of passionate and committed consultants who lead organizational, operational, and technological transformation projects in IT/Digital, Industry/R&D, and Sustainability, for large enterprises and SMEs in France, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany.
We are looking for an AI Engineer with AI Tech Lead capabilities to join the AI team of one of the leading retail companies in Europe. In this role, you'll help drive the technical direction of AI projects, support the data science team, and lead the AI Architecture and MLOps backlog to deliver scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AI professional who enjoys combining hands-on development with technical leadership, architecture design and close collaboration with MLOps teams.
Location: Alcobendas, Madrid (Hybrid – 1 day onsite per week)
Start date: 01/09/2026
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Artificial Intelligence.
• Strong experience developing Generative AI solutions, including full-code AI agents.
• Proven experience designing and defining AI Architecture for production environments.
• Solid experience working with MLOps and collaborating with DevOps teams.
• Experience acting as an AI Tech Lead, providing technical guidance and supporting AI and Data Science teams.
• Ability to define technical solutions and make architectural decisions for AI projects.
• Technical degree in Mathematics, Engineering or Telecommunications.
• Professional level of English.
• Experience leading end-to-end AI projects from design to deployment.
• Experience working in cloud-based AI environments.
• Knowledge of scalable AI solution design and deployment best practices.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in Agile environments.
• Passion for mentoring, knowledge sharing and driving technical excellence within AI teams.
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Ekkiden is a new generation consulting firm, which believes that its growth is linked to the development and well-being of its teams.
The evolution and development of our teams are at the heart of our mission that we try our best to achieve every day.
Founded in 2019, the group is rapidly expanding to several countries. Our team of over 200+ people is spread across 7 offices in France, Spain, Germany and Switzerland and everywhere in Europe at our clients.
As an impactful company, we want to offer our teams an international and modern working environment. Our offers are organized around three pillars: digital transformation, industrial innovation and sustainability.
We work with some of Europe's most successful companies and organizations: the United Nations, Carrefour and LVMH are few examples of companies that trust us.
We believe in community, technology and human values. Joining Ekkiden means joining an ambitious entrepreneurial project that leaves a lot of space for initiative and autonomy.
