Freelance Senior Technical Advisor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Act as a senior technical consultant for municipal governments throughout North, Central, and South America.

• Assist cities in designing, developing, and launching pilot programs for new resident services.

• Create and provide digital products and services, including solutions powered by data and AI.

• Lead city teams through the entire product development process.

• Provide guidance on system and data architecture that is appropriate for pilots and can support scalable growth.

• Develop and evaluate potential solutions to confirm assumptions.

• Determine the appropriateness of machine learning and large language models.

• Create and present solutions while articulating the rationale to clients.

• Work in collaboration with product managers, data scientists, AI engineers, designers, and diverse city teams.

• Influence technical decisions and trade-offs without having final decision-making authority.

• Foster in-house product development capabilities within city teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive practical technical experience.

• Strong understanding of system and data architecture, data pipelines, DevOps, and infrastructure.

• Proven history of delivering and deploying comprehensive end-to-end solutions in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid settings.

• Experience with legacy systems and environments with limited resources.

• Familiarity with AI and machine learning methodologies, including large language models.

• Experience in deploying AI/ML solutions or collaborating with ML engineers to integrate them into products.

• Experience in taking products from initial concept to the first release while establishing foundations for scalability.

• Proven capability in rapid prototyping and assumption validation.

• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including product managers, designers, and other fields.

• Ability to convey technical concepts and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in setting the technical direction for a project or small team and mentoring other engineers as a tech lead or senior engineer.

• Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.

• Curiosity and adaptability in tackling problems, with comfort in dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty.

• Professional working proficiency in English and Spanish and/or Portuguese.

• Fluency in English and at least one of either Spanish or Portuguese.

• Nice to have: experience with multicultural teams and international projects.

• Nice to have: experience with government or public sector organizations or services for residents and citizens.

• Nice to have: familiarity with responsible AI practices, including data privacy, bias and fairness, transparency, and governance in the public sector.

• Nice to have: experience in supporting organizations to enhance technical capability through coaching, mentoring, or establishing teams and practices.

• Ability to produce a 1–3 minute application video in Spanish or Portuguese.

• Availability to work in GMT/BST or CET-friendly time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• 6-month freelance engagement.

• Remote work opportunities across Europe.

• Flexible weekly schedule of 3–4 days per week.

• Chance to collaborate with seasoned product managers, data scientists, AI engineers, and designers.

• Opportunity to aid city teams in developing in-house product development capabilities.

• Opportunity to work on digital products and services leveraging data and AI.