Lead AI Engineer

• Hybrid working – Central London (2-3 days per week)

I'm partnering with a market‑leading fintech business to hire a Lead AI Engineer into a high‑impact AI Engineering team. This is an opportunity to lead the design and delivery of production‑grade AI systems that are embedded into core business operations, helping shape how AI is adopted across the organisation.

If you're passionate about LLMs, AI agents and building enterprise‑scale AI solutions, this is a chance to own the technical direction and deliver AI products that create genuine business value.

• Leading fintech organisation with AI at the heart of its technology strategy.
• Significant investment into Generative AI, Machine Learning and cloud technologies.
• Collaborative engineering culture with a strong focus on innovation and technical excellence.
• Opportunity to influence AI strategy and shape the future of enterprise AI delivery.
• Modern technology environment with ambitious plans for AI adoption.

• Own the end‑to‑end architecture, design and delivery of enterprise AI systems.
• Build production‑grade applications using LLMs and AI agents.
• Lead AI projects from concept through to deployment and adoption.
• Define engineering standards, reusable frameworks and best practices for AI development.
• Make key technical decisions across models, tooling, infrastructure and system design.
• Ensure AI solutions are scalable, secure, observable and production‑ready.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers across AI initiatives.

• Proven experience delivering production AI systems from design through to deployment.
• Strong expertise with Generative AI, LLMs and agentic AI architectures.
• Excellent software engineering skills across APIs, cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical direction.
  
  Ability to influence engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Experience with AI platforms, LLMOps or MLOps would be highly beneficial.
• Background delivering AI solutions within enterprise or regulated environments is desirable.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a business making significant investment in AI, where you'll play a pivotal role in defining technical strategy, building enterprise‑scale AI solutions and driving innovation across the organisation.

If you feel like you would be a good match, please apply with your CV to find out more.