Senior AI Engineer with Italian- EY GDS Spain - Hybrid
Location: Malaga
Other locations: Primary Location Only
Date: 4 Mar 2026
Requisition ID: 1689520
The opportunity
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will lead the architecture, design, and delivery of advanced AI and Generative AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to shape end-to-end AI strategies, deliver scalable implementations, guide junior resources, and ensure the quality, security, and robustness of AI systems deployed in production environments.
Your key responsibilities
- Leading the analysis of business requirements and translating them into technical roadmaps.
- Designing and developing enterprise-grade components such as inference services, ML/LLM pipelines, APIs, and microservices.
- Defining and implementing MLOps/LLMOps pipelines: model registry, versioning, CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, and rollback strategies.
- Implementing advanced GenAI solutions (RAG, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, retrieval strategies, secure orchestration, agentic workflows).
- Ensuring non-functional requirements such as security, resilience, privacy‐by‐design, observability, and auditability.
- Mentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and contributing to internal AI community assets, accelerators, and best practices.
- Managing stakeholders, aligning on KPIs, and supporting proposal/presales activities when required.
Skills and attributes for success
You bring deep technical expertise, architectural vision, strong leadership, and the ability to operate effectively in complex enterprise environments. Collaboration, communication, and a strategic mindset are key to succeeding in this role.
To qualify for the role, you must have
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in STEM fields (Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics).
- 4–6+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering and enterprise delivery.
- Advanced proficiency in Python, including production‐grade coding (APIs, services, testing, CI/CD).
- Proven experience in deploying AI/ML solutions to production (monitoring, retraining, lifecycle management).
- Concrete experience with GenAI/LLM frameworks and architectures (RAG, evaluation, prompt strategy, integration).
- Strong knowledge of cloud architectures (Azure preferred) and security/compliance principles.
- Technical leadership experience and mentoring ability.
- Professional proficiency in English.
- Professional proficiency in Italian (mandatory).
Ideally, you'll also have
- Experience with Kubernetes, event‐driven architectures, or large‐scale distributed systems.
- Knowledge of data engineering tools (Spark/Databricks).
- Experience in regulated industries or auditing contexts.
- Open‐source contributions, publications, certifications.
What we look for
Professionals who combine deep technical skills with leadership, ownership, and a passion for shaping impactful AI solutions in enterprise environments.
What we offer
In EY GDS Spain, you will collaborate with our teams on exciting projects and work with well‐known brands from across the globe. We'll introduce you to an ever‐expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills, and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
Transformative leadership: We'll give you insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
About EY GDS
EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network of over 75,000 people working across the world, to provide innovative and strategic business solutions to our clients worldwide. We play a vital role in growth strategy, helping our clients become agile and efficient, and helping fulfill our purpose to build a better working world.
From accountants to coders, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. We look for skills that are evergreen and our roles evolve with industry trends. We also work across Finance, Business Development, Technology, Talent, Procurement and Risk Management functions to help our teams operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Across our 10 locations and 21 cities, we work with teams from all service lines, geographies, and sectors. We operate in Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Our EY GDS Spain office is located at Malaga Technology Park and currently employs over 850 people.
If you are interested in being part of our team, we kindly invite you to submit your CV in English to apply for this position.
The exceptional EY GDS experience. It's yours to build.
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