AI Automation Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Experience designing and building intelligent automation or AI solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, or similar low-code/no-code platforms.
• Ability to integrate solutions with systems such as SharePoint, Azure services, and other enterprise platforms.
• Understanding of secure data handling, including governance, permissions, documentation, and compliant use of AI-ready datasets.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including data engineering, user research, design, cyber security, and business areas.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain AI agents and automation tools using Copilot Studio and Microsoft Power Platform, ensuring integration with SharePoint, Azure services, and other departmental systems.
• Develop intelligent solutions in partnership with external providers, contributing engineering expertise to more advanced AI capabilities across our department.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Management to ensure solutions use secure, well-documented, AI-ready datasets and that data pathways are safe, governed, and reusable.
• Work closely with user research, design, and UX specialists to ensure agents are intuitive, meet real-world user needs, and can be adopted at scale across business areas.
• Provide full service support for deployed tools, including documentation, monitoring, iterative improvement, troubleshooting, and long-term maintainability.
• Support alignment with governance, risk, and compliance requirements, ensuring solutions uphold standards for responsible AI, information assurance, cyber security, and ethical use.
• Contribute to cross-team collaboration with policy, product, data, cyber, and operational colleagues to ensure solutions work end to end in practice.
• Help develop reusable components that accelerate future delivery and enable consistent, scalable implementation of AI-enabled solutions.
• Support capability building across our department by sharing engineering best practices and helping business areas understand what is possible through agent-based automation.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• Azure
• Copilot
• Support
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Security
• SharePoint
• UX UI Design
• Cloud

More:

We are the Department of Health & Social Care. This is an initial temporary contract for 6 months with a view to extension or a permanent position for the right candidate, with a negotiable daily rate depending on experience. The role is remote with occasional office visits to SW1H 0EU. We offer the opportunity to work across policy, product, data, cyber, operational, user research, design, and engineering teams on AI-enabled solutions with a strong focus on responsible AI, governance, and secure delivery.

last updated 33 week of 2026