AI Technology Lead · Senior Data Engineer
Hi, I'm Vijay Anand.
Senior Data Engineer · M&S Sparks · London, UK
Open to AI leadership opportunities
Expertise
Build LLM-powered systems that solve real business problems — RAG pipelines, AI agents, and governed automation at enterprise scale.
Real-time event streaming, scalable lakehouse architecture, and analytics pipelines that business teams can trust and act on.
Translate business pain into system design. Mentor engineers. Ship AI products that are governed, auditable, and built to scale.
Portfolio
M&S Sparks
AI-powered loyalty mission management platform eliminating manual errors that previously affected millions of customers.
M&S Sparks
Real-time event streaming and lakehouse architecture powering Sparks loyalty analytics at enterprise scale.
M&S / POC
Production-ready retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with AI governance hooks, PII masking, and audit logging.
Writing
Any engineer can get an LLM to produce an answer. The skill that defines senior AI engineers is building systems that are safe, auditable, and trustworthy — especially when they are wrong. Here is the full governance playbook.
Leadership is not a title. It is a set of behaviours, instincts, and disciplines that you can learn, practise, and demonstrate before you have the role. Here are the core characteristics that define a great tech lead — with practical examples from real engineering work.
Getting AI to work in a notebook is easy. Keeping it working in production — with monitoring, drift detection, versioning, and cost control — is the actual engineering challenge. Here is the operational playbook.
I hear the business pain. I build the AI solution. I govern it so it scales.
AI Tech Lead & leadership roles · London, UK
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