AI Platform Engineer

End Date Monday 28 September 2026

Salary Range £48,987 - £54,430

We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary .

Job Description AI Platform Engineer SALARY: £48,987 - £54,430

LOCATION:

Bristol

HOURS:

Full time WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

Join our Analytics & AI Platform, the hub for enabling Analytics & AI across the organisation. This role sits within our Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) Lab, an enablement function focused on delivering our vision for the future of Business Intelligence! As an AI Platform Engineer, you'll help design, build, implement, scale and support strategic BI and AI platform capabilities used by tens of thousands of colleagues.

Working within a feature team alongside Product Owners and multi-skilled engineers, you'll contribute to the evolution of our strategic analytics platforms, including Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Looker!

Designing, implementing and supporting BI and AI platform capabilities that enable trusted analytics across the organisation. Creating reusable patterns, blueprints, best practices, operating models and standards to support platform adoption and self-service. Delivering platform improvements that enhance connectivity between BI applications and cloud or on-premises data sources. Contributing to conversational analytics, AI-enabled insight capabilities and semantic data foundations that improve access to information.

Collaborating with architecture, security, networking and cloud teams to develop secure, scalable and resilient platform solutions. Supporting platform simplification and continuous improvement initiatives that improve the experience of BI developers and consumers.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're transforming the way we use technology, data and AI to create better outcomes for our customers and colleagues. We're investing in modern platforms and innovative capabilities that help unlock the value of data across the Group. Join us and you'll be part of a collaborative environment where innovation, learning and continuous improvement are encouraged.

You'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges while helping shape the future of analytics and AI enablement.

Experience administering and supporting enterprise BI platforms such as Power BI, Looker or similar technologies. Experience designing, implementing or supporting platform services, standards and operational practices within a technology environment. Ability to collaborate effectively with technical stakeholders across architecture, security, networking and cloud functions. Knowledge of software engineering principles and how they apply to platform development and service delivery. Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate issues and identify practical solutions.

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. And any experience of this would be really useful Experience with cloud platform tooling and automation capabilities such as infrastructure-as-code, identity and access management or deployment tooling. Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, AI-enabled analytics capabilities or conversational analytics solutions. Knowledge of semantic modelling, knowledge‑layer concepts or end-to-end BI data patterns.

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