AI Engineering Manager

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong, visible people leader who role models, cares, connects and coaches to drive performance, change, positive engagement and deliver against challenging objectives.
• A strong record of delivering AI, machine-learning or data-intensive solutions into production in an enterprise environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Foundry, Copilot and the wider Azure AI stack, with the technical depth to set standards and assure quality.
• Experience establishing engineering and operational standards, reusable patterns and consistent ways of working across multiple teams.
• A strong understanding of the end-to-end AI, software and data lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, live service and continual improvement.
• Clear communication and influencing skills, with the ability to connect technical and non-technical audiences at every level.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of AI Engineers and AI Platform & Operations Engineers.
• Deliver AI solutions from proof of concept into production, primarily using Microsoft AI capabilities and related technologies.
• Work closely with the AI Lead and colleagues across architecture, security, risk, data and platform teams.
• Balance pace with control and ensure our AI estate operates within risk appetite and to consistently high professional standards.
• Preserve and elevate our inclusive culture through authentic role modelling of our behaviours.
• Drive high performance by coaching and nurturing talent.

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• Copilot
• Support
• Security
• Cloud
• Embedded

More:

We have been helping our members save for their future and buy their own home since 1875, with a purpose focused on putting home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation. We are looking for an AI Engineering Manager to join our dedicated team. We offer hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office, an annual bonus of up to 12%, matched pension contributions up to 10%, 26 days of holiday plus bank holidays and a holiday purchase scheme, colleague mortgage and saver products, and 2 days of volunteering per year. Our business is centred around our people, and our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, supported by Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We are committed to equal opportunities and a truly purpose-focused culture, and we were recognised with the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023 Business Culture Awards. We want to create a workplace representative of the communities we serve and support our people to be at their best.

last updated 38 week of 2026