Lead AI Engineer

An exciting opportunity is available for a passionate, engaging and expert Lead AI Engineer to complement our Data, Digital, and Artificial Intelligence (DDAI) team.

The role works within delivery squads focusing on building and operationalising AI applications and ML models that will further enhance our service and product offerings.

Additionally, the role is responsible for engineering design, development, and deployment of machine learning (ML) models and Gen-AI agentic applications that solve complex problems and enhance our products and services. This role will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to integrate machine learning solutions into production systems.

Highly established people leadership experience whilst also being able to balance a hands-on senior AI Engineering workload.

Expert programming skills in Python and strong familiarity with ML libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.

Advanced experience building solutions leveraging frameworks such as LlamaIndex, LangChain, AutoGen, DSPy, etc.

Deep experience building CI/CD pipelines and automation in Jenkins, GitHub and Bamboo, plus IaaC & configuration management tools such Terraform and Chef.

Advanced experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, or similar for data processing and feature engineering, and implementing solutions on Azure ML, Synapse and Azure AI Services.

Highly experienced in dealing with diverse stakeholders at all levels within a complex enterprise setting.

Strong familiarity with Graph databases and their usage pattern, with hands-on experience in backend & frontend development using Nodejs and React.

Advanced familiarity with scripting languages such as bash, PowerShell.

Possess certification on Azure & AWS for solution design.