Lead AI Data Engineer Full-time

Are you passionate about AI and data innovation? As a Lead AI Data Engineer within our AI & Data Practice, you’ll spearhead engineering teams, design cutting-edge AI solutions, and ensure our projects meet time, budget, and quality goals.

Join us to lead the future of AI and drive innovation in technology and data! Apply now and be part of our dynamic team shaping the next generation of AI solutions.

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.
What you’ll be doing:

• Drive AI innovation and deliver advanced solutions for optimal business outcomes.
• Maintain high standards of professionalism, client satisfaction, and service quality.
• Be responsible for technical project delivery, ensuring alignment with time and budget constraints.
• Partner with data science leads to create end-to-end AI solutions.
• Propose optimal solutions and lead the design and delivery across pre-sales, projects and as repeatable blueprints.
• Make day to day decisions regarding the setup and priorities for the engineering community along with their required leadership team to govern and direct resources within it.
• Collaborate with fellow leads and steering groups to ensure the right skills are maintained within the engineering function

What you’ll bring:

• Intelligent document processing using AI including OCR, handwriting character recognition and computer vision.
• Digital assistant solutions enhanced by AI to interact with users across a number of channels including chat, voice and application native integration such as Microsoft Copilot.
• Knowledge of data architectures, Microsoft365 Copilot, AI, and DevSecOps pipeline development.
• AI assisted software development and testing using tools such as GitHub Copilot or AWS CodeWhisperer.
• Cloud native delivery engineering such as Containers / Kubernetes, event driven architecture and microservices.
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools and techniques. Knowledge of GenAI and LLM’s such as ChatGPT, Claude, Llama and OpenAI.

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

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: up to £65,000

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.

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We support the UK Government to tackle today’s biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We’ve been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.