Senior AI Engineer

Lead AI Engineer

This is an opportunity to join a growing AI function at a business investing heavily in artificial intelligence, automation, and digital transformation. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, delivering production-grade AI solutions, and influencing how AI is embedded across a large, commercially focused organisation.

The Role

You will take ownership of AI initiatives from concept through to production, helping design and deliver solutions that solve real business challenges.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the design and delivery of production-grade Generative AI and AI-powered solutions


• Owning architecture decisions across AI products and platforms


• Building and deploying LLM, RAG, and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale


• Evaluating build versus buy approaches and making pragmatic technology recommendations


• Working closely with engineering, security, governance, and business stakeholders


• Driving technical standards, best practices, and reusable AI frameworks


• Supporting and mentoring engineers across multiple workstreams


• Contributing to AI strategy and helping prioritise high-value use cases


• Ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready

You will bring:

• Strong commercial experience delivering Generative AI solutions into production


• Proven capability leading end-to-end AI projects from discovery through deployment


• Deep understanding of LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic AI, orchestration, prompting, and evaluation


• Strong software engineering foundations, including APIs, cloud architectures, and system design


• Experience making architecture and technology decisions within complex environments


• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly evolving problem spaces


• Experience collaborating with security, governance, compliance, and data protection teams


• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders


• Experience within enterprise-scale organisations, ideally in regulated environments


• Exposure to AWS and modern AI engineering practices is highly desirable

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