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

Your Skills & Experience

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