AI Team Leader (6 months contract)

Evoke mission 

Our mission is to delight players with world-class betting & gaming experiences. 

At evoke, we power global brands including William Hill, 888 and Mr Green.

We are building the next generation of intelligent gaming platforms—where AI enhances every layer of the customer journey. From real-time personalization and responsible gaming safeguards to automated operations and decision-making, our systems transform complex processes into intuitive, trusted experiences.

Our platforms are designed for reliability, compliance, and scale, operating across multiple jurisdictions where trust is paramount. By combining deep domain expertise with advanced AI capabilities, we empower our teams and partners to deliver faster, smarter, and more responsible gaming experiences worldwide.

About The Team

We're building the platform that enables AI across Evoke.

Our team is responsible for the core integration layer that allows AI engineering teams to safely and efficiently connect with Evoke's existing platforms and services. We develop the APIs, platform capabilities, and reusable components that expose legacy systems in a consistent, secure, and scalable way, enabling AI applications to consume business functionality without needing to understand the complexity of the underlying estate.

Rather than building AI models ourselves, we focus on creating the engineering foundations that accelerate AI delivery across the business. This includes modernizing integrations, expanding platform capabilities, defining standardized interfaces, supporting Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations where appropriate, and building reusable services that enable AI teams to develop production-ready solutions faster.

Our technology stack is primarily C#/.NET with supporting Node.js services, operating in a highly regulated environment where reliability, security, observability, and maintainability are critical.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and grow a cross-functional team of software engineers and QA engineers responsible for the AI Enablement Platform.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for the platform that exposes Evoke's legacy capabilities to AI engineering teams.
• Design, build and evolve scalable APIs, services and integration layers using C#/.NET and Node.js.
• Modernize existing platform capabilities to provide secure, reliable and well-documented interfaces for AI consumers.
• Build reusable platform components that accelerate AI development across multiple product teams.
• Define standards for API design, authentication, observability, versioning and platform governance.
• Collaborate closely with AI engineering teams to understand integration requirements and deliver platform capabilities that enable new AI use cases.
• Work with architects and domain teams to simplify access to legacy systems while maintaining security, compliance and operational resilience.
• Drive engineering excellence across software development, testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and operational support.
• Lead production support, incident management and root cause analysis, ensuring platform reliability and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and QA specialists, fostering technical excellence, collaboration and ownership.
• Evaluate emerging technologies—including AI integration standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent interoperability patterns and API technologies—to improve the platform while maintaining a pragmatic production-first mindset.

Requirements

Who we are looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience leading high-performing software engineering teams, including engineers working across multiple technology stacks and architectural domains.
• Demonstrated success managing engineering teams delivering complex platform or enterprise software in large-scale organizations.
• Strong software engineering background with experience designing distributed systems, APIs, microservices and platform services using C#/.NET. Experience with Node.js is beneficial.
• Proven experience delivering complex, production-grade systems end-to-end, ideally in distributed or high-scale environments.
• Understanding of how AI applications integrate with enterprise platforms, including API-driven architectures, secure access patterns and the challenges of exposing business capabilities to AI systems.
• Solid software engineering foundations, including system design, code quality, testing strategies, CI/CD, and observability.
• Experience working in regulated or high-trust environments is a strong advantage.
• Strong leadership skills, with a track record of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical audiences.

What we offer

Our roles offer more than just a job, you’ll become part of the evoke family! We have created an environment where our people can thrive. Check out some of the fantastic benefits on offer:

• Financial: Competitive salary
• Hybrid working: Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!
• Holiday entitlement: You’ll be entitled to 22 annual leave days, plus bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday.
• eLearning
• Family Support: Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
• Health & wellbeing: Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education. You will also have access to gym discounts.
• Healthcare: We prioritize your health and well-being, offering comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• ...and more

More about evoke

We’re a business that embraces change and progress. The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke.

At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you.

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At evoke, we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth.

Sound good? Then you belong at our place! The first step in the recruitment process is kickstarting your application, followed by an initial screening call and an interview stage.

Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family!