Lead Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Engineer

Paris

Lead Data Engineer - AI Search (all genders)

Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company – a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values‑driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.

The opportunity

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact and professional growth. Whether you’re pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer—AI Search (all genders) to join Valtech and lead enterprise‑scale AI, search and conversational platform initiatives. The Tech Lead is responsible for mature study and translating architecture into scalable and production‑ready solutions. This role drives detailed technical design choices, secures delivery quality and coordinates development and integration activities across multidisciplinary teams.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Are comfortable owning architectural decisions and long‑term technical strategy
• Enjoy mentoring engineers and raising overall engineering maturity
• Can clearly communicate technical trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies and scalability concerns
• Balance delivery needs with long‑term platform health

Key responsibilities

• Define detailed technical design, components, interfaces and integration patterns
• Lead development teams and enforce engineering standards and best practices
• Coordinate architecture, cloud/platform, data, QA and business stakeholders
• Ensure delivery quality through testing, observability and application security practices
• Guide teams on GCP and AI Search implementation patterns
• Lead technical discovery, estimation and solution design workshops
• Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies early
• Ensure scalable, reliable and production‑ready AI solutions
• Contribute hands‑on in complex and high‑impact technical areas
• Support industrialisation and operationalisation of AI and search use cases

Must have qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in enterprise environments
• Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AI ecosystems
• Experience with AI Search, conversational AI and generative AI integrations
• Strong application architecture, API design and enterprise integration experience
• Solid understanding of cloud‑native, microservices and event‑driven architectures
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, software quality, observability and cloud security best practices
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
• Technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and guiding technical decisions
• Ability to collaborate across architecture, engineering, cloud and data teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Backend development experience with Java and/or Python
• Advanced level of French and English

We recognise that talent comes in many forms and encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and a willingness to learn.

Commitment to reaching all kinds of people

We design experiences that work for all kinds of people – and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals.

The benefits

This is a permanent position based in Paris, France with at least 3 days at the client office (Paris). Beyond a competitive compensation package, we offer:

• Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country‑dependent)
• Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs
• Learning and development, with access to cutting‑edge tools, training and industry experts

As per the AGG (General Equal Treatment Act) in Germany and equivalent in France, jobs must be advertised in a gender‑neutral manner. We use the statement (all genders) to make it clear that this position is open to all genders in these countries, even if the job title itself can be translated or interpreted as masculine in the French or German language.