AI Techlead

At a glance

Our AI team builds GenAI applications that go into production at one of the Netherlands' largest banks. Voice agents handling thousands of contact center calls, AI lending assistants supporting lenders in writing credit proposals, and agentic workflows that actually make it to users. We don't stop at prototypes; we build, ship, measure, iterate, and do it fast. As an AI Tech Lead
, you set the technical direction across these initiatives while staying close enough to the code to keep that pace honest. If you have 7+ years of engineering experience, a serious track record of shipping AI in production, and want to lead at a scale most companies won't give you for years, read on.

You set the technical direction on GenAI initiatives that span the bank—from the first conversation with a business team through to production and beyond. You decide how things get built, you build with the team, and you make sure the right things actually get done in a complex organization. Your focus shifts with the use case: backend, frontend, leveraging LLMs to agentic.

You own outcomes, not just architecture diagrams. You work directly with the people whose problems you're solving and bring the rest of the team along.

Concretely, you'll:

• Set the technical direction for GenAI solutions across banking use cases:
  Voice AI, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, document intelligence.
• Drive initiatives end‑to‑end through a complex organization: align stakeholders, unblock teams, and make the essential calls.
• Co‑create use cases with business counterparts: you understand the problem, not just the technology, and shape what gets built.
• Stay hands‑on: design and write the hard parts when required.
• Own architecture and technical quality across multiple work streams—trade‑offs, patterns, what we standardize on, and what we do not.
• Work with agents, plain LLMs, code, Databricks, and whatever tool is right for the job.
• Raise the technical bar of the team through code reviews, design reviews, knowledge sharing, coaching, and mentoring.

You'll be part of a 25+ person AI team inside ABN AMRO's Innovation department. We operate with a startup mindset within a bank that serves millions of customers and employs thousands of individuals: fast feedback loops, direct lines to business leadership, and real deployment terdam, hybrid.

We don't hire on CV titles. We hire on what you've shipped and led. The team includes people from software engineering, data science, and infra—all sharing proven AI expertise and a bias for building over theorizing. As a tech lead, you bring the same plus the ability to take an ambiguous problem and a group of strong engineers and turn it into something running in production.

What you've done:

• Led the technical side of AI or software initiatives end‑to‑end: owned architecture, made hard calls, and shipped.
• Built and deployed AI applications using LLMs, RAG, agents, fine‑tuning, voice AI, or equivalent at production scale with real users.
• Written Python that runs in production; you are a developer, not a notebook user, and still enjoy writing code.
• Worked with cloud infrastructure:
  Azure preferred, AWS or GCP also fine.
• Operated inside a complex organization and got things done across teams, not just within one.

How you work:

• You take ambiguous problems, set a direction, and bring people with you without waiting for permission.
• You have strong technical opinions formed through experience and are willing to defend and adapt them.
• You're as interested in the business problem as in the technical solution.
• You explain decisions clearly to people who don't share your context—engineers, business, leadership.
• You follow the GenAI field closely because you’re genuinely curious.
• You’ve built something on the side—a tool, project, or contribution—that shows you don’t wait to be told what to learn.

We believe it is important to be a good employer. Joining us means stepping into a role with impact, supported by excellent employment conditions.

• An attractive gross monthly salary based on a 36‑hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget totaling €65,000 to…