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Senior AI Engineer

UKFull-timeSenior

Lead teams and ship production-grade AI systems across complex enterprise programmes — hands-on, collaborative and close to the build.

The role

We're partnering with a global organisation investing heavily in AI to transform how it operates at scale. As part of that journey, they are building a strategic capability focused on selecting, shaping and governing the tools that enable AI adoption across the business.

This role helps define how AI tools are evaluated, selected and deployed across a complex, enterprise environment. It's a highly strategic role suited to someone who sits comfortably between product, technology and business — someone who can understand where the AI landscape is heading, translate that into clear recommendations, and influence decision-making at a senior level. Alongside the strategy, it carries senior technical leadership: setting standards and growing the AI engineering team.

Location: UK.

Shaping the AI tooling strategy

  • Define and continuously refine the approach to selecting and deploying AI tools across the organisation.
  • Translate business needs into clear tooling strategies and value-driven use cases.
  • Support the development of a cohesive AI tooling ecosystem aligned to the broader AI strategy.
  • Stay close to the rapidly evolving AI and Generative AI landscape, identifying key trends and implications.
  • Assess emerging tools and vendors, forming clear views on suitability and long-term value.
  • Evaluate 'build vs buy vs partner' decisions across the tooling landscape.
  • Review and assess new AI tools and solutions being proposed across the organisation.
  • Identify overlaps, gaps and opportunities to consolidate or scale existing tooling.
  • Provide structured recommendations on tool selection, integration and strategic fit.
  • Work closely with business units, product teams and technology stakeholders to understand priorities and constraints, and align the organisation around a shared AI tooling direction.
  • Communicate recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders, balancing technical and commercial considerations.
  • Define and track key metrics for adoption, value and effectiveness, and maintain clear documentation of tooling decisions and strategic direction.
  • Support governance processes to ensure consistency, control and responsible AI adoption.

Technical leadership

  • Set technical standards for architecture, coding, deployment and performance across AI projects.
  • Mentor and coach AI Engineers and junior team members, helping them grow in skill and confidence.
  • Review and guide technical work to ensure solutions are secure, ethical, maintainable and scalable.
  • Help shape and evolve our AI engineering best practices, documentation and delivery frameworks.
  • Support hiring, onboarding and growing the AI engineering team as the business scales.
  • Act as a senior technical contact, explaining AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Partner with consultants, data engineers and delivery leads to turn business challenges into effective AI solutions, and contribute to strategic conversations about how AI creates long-term value.

What you bring

  • Experience in product strategy, technology strategy or programme roles, ideally within large or complex organisations.
  • Strong understanding of the AI / Generative AI landscape and how tooling is evolving.
  • Experience evaluating or selecting enterprise tools, platforms or products.
  • Ability to translate market trends and business needs into clear, actionable strategies.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior decision-makers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, including some or all of: Azure Machine Learning, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure DevOps, Power BI and Azure OpenAI Service.

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