Team Lead Operations Automation & AI

About the role

The Team Lead Operations Automation & AI will build the automation and AI capability for operations from the ground up, covering both production and back-office functions. You will identify high-ROI opportunities, own the end-to-end technical delivery of solutions, and lead a team to ship working automations into production. This role involves working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to drive process efficiency and scale operations.

Responsibilities

• Map and prioritise automation opportunities across production and back-office — ranked by feasibility, ROI, and implementation risk
• Own end-to-end delivery of automation projects: scoping, design, build, test, production deployment, and monitoring
• Build, mentor, and manage the Automation Engineer and Data/ML Engineer
• Define the team's technical architecture and toolchain — RPA, LLM-based tools, ML models, API integrations
• Work with operational and back-office stakeholders to translate process pain points into deployable solutions
• Own the collaboration boundary with IT and Production Engineering
• Track and report on automation impact: manual hours reduced, error rates, throughput, cost savings

Required skills

• Operations Excellence
• RPA
• UiPath
• Power Automate
• ML/AI deployment
• Systems integration
• API design
• ERP
• MES
• People management
• Technical mentorship

Nice to have

• OT
• IT/business process
• Industry 4.0
• Smart factory
• MES integration
• LLM-based tooling
• Prompt engineering
• Agent design
• Document processing

Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or Industrial Engineering

About the Company

Stark is a premier defence technology company that develops AI-driven technology and autonomous defence platforms for NATO Allies and their partners. The company focuses on relentless innovation, combining elite engineering talent with agile technology to solve complex defence challenges.