AI Technical Lead

Salary: £52,000 - 92,000 per year

Requirements:

• Software engineering experience while leading engineering teams
• Strong hands-on experience building and deploying AI applications in production
• Deep knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and conversational AI patterns
• Experience with agentic frameworks and autonomous agent architectures
• Proficiency in Python and modern software development practices, including testing, code review, and CI/CD
• Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time with high quality
• Strong project management skills with experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and build cohesive, productive teams
• Experience leading teams in fast-growing startups or enterprise software companies
• Knowledge of financial planning, analytics, or business intelligence domains
• Experience with RAG systems, vector databases, and semantic search
• Familiarity with model fine-tuning, evaluation, and continuous improvement workflows
• Background in distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native architectures

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-8 AI engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and delivery
• Drive end-to-end execution of conversational AI features that enable users to interact with our models through natural language
• Oversee the development of agentic AI systems that can autonomously analyse data, generate insights, and execute planning workflows
• Own the teams delivery roadmap, working closely with product management to prioritise features and manage technical trade-offs
• Establish engineering best practices for AI development, including testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and deployment patterns
• Lead sprint planning, technical design reviews, and retrospectives to ensure consistent delivery velocity and quality
• Collaborate with AI Solutions Architects to translate architectural vision into executable engineering plans
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI applications, including automated testing and prompt regression suites
• Partner with platform teams to ensure AI features integrate seamlessly with our core infrastructure
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Business Intelligence
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Fine-tuning
• LLM
• Python
• RAG
• microservices

More:

We are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. We serve more than 2,400 global companies, including well-known Fortune 50 brands, and our Winning Culture is built on diversity of thought, ambitious goals, and celebrating wins big and small. We offer a strategy-led, values-based, and disciplined environment where people are inspired, connected, developed, and rewarded. We are building an Enterprise Grade AI Platform and are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to drive our conversational AI, generative AI, and agentic AI roadmap while remaining deeply involved in technical problem-solving.

last updated 35 week of 2026