Lead AI Engineer

Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence and excited by the opportunity to shape the future of Data and AI solutions? We're looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join our growing team, where you'll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You'll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering advanced AI solutions while also mentoring and developing junior team members, helping to create a collaborative and high-performing environment. We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams, applying innovative AI technologies to solve complex business challenges and deliver real impact. What you'll be doing: Leading the delivery of advanced AI and agent-based solutions. Coaching and mentoring junior engineers, fostering growth and best practice. Communicating complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Managing project delivery, ensuring outcomes are on time, within budget and to quality standards. Applying MLOps practices to address risk and technical debt. Staying up to date with advancements in AI, agent architectures, and emerging best practices. What you'll bring: Expertise in AI and Machine Learning, including agent-based AI, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), multi-agent systems and conversational agents. Strong programming skills in Python, Java or .NET. Experience with GenAI and LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, OpenAI), including prompt engineering, fine tuning and advanced search. Familiarity with AI agent frameworks (e.g. Autogen AI) and digital assistant solutions such as Microsoft Copilot. Knowledge of cloud-native engineering techniques for scalable AI deployment. If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: UK Wide Security Clearance Level: SC Eligible Internal Recruiter: Annecia Salary: up to £90,000 Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us? With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing - creating value for all. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Location: UK, GB

Posted Date: 11/22/2025