Freelance Senior Technical Advisor (Spanish or Portuguese Speaking)

The role

You will act as a senior technical advisor to city governments in North, Central and South America. You will help design, build, and launch small scale pilots of new services by prototyping digital products and services that harness data and AI.

What you will do

• Advise city governments on designing, building, and launching small scale pilots of new services.
• Help multidisciplinary city teams build in-house product development capability.
• Prototype and deliver digital products and services using data and AI.
• Guide cities through the full product development lifecycle.
• Help weigh strategic and technical trade-offs regarding system and data architecture.
• Prototype and test possible solutions to validate assumptions.
• Determine when AI approaches like machine learning or large language models are appropriate.
• Set technical direction for projects or small teams.
• Influence technical decisions through guidance rather than authority.

Required qualifications

• Extensive hands-on technical experience.
• Strong knowledge of system and data architecture, data pipelines, DevOps and infrastructure.
• Track record of delivering and deploying solutions across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning approaches, including large language models.
• Experience taking products from early concept to first release.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to explain technical ideas and trade-offs to all technical levels.
• Experience setting technical direction for a project or small team.
• Experience influencing technical decisions you do not directly control.
• Curiosity and flexibility in problem solving.
• Professional working proficiency in English.
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese.

Nice to have

• Experience working with multicultural teams and on international projects.
• Experience working with government or other public-sector organisations, or on services for residents and citizens.
• Familiarity with responsible AI practices, such as data privacy, bias and fairness, transparency, and the governance considerations specific to public-sector use of AI.
• Experience supporting organisations to build their own technical capability, for example through coaching, mentoring or setting up new teams and practices.

Before you apply

• Record a short video (1–3 minutes) describing a technical project in Spanish or Portuguese.

About the company

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