Associate Director, AI Agents Lead Developer

Salary: £95,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements:

• Deep hands-on expertise in AI engineering and modern software delivery, including building and deploying LLM-based or agentic systems into production environments.
• Strong full-stack technical foundations across Python and/or TypeScript, APIs, and modern engineering practices, with the credibility to set technical direction for engineering teams.
• A track record of leading delivery teams and owning outcomes on complex technology programmes.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders on technology strategy, architecture decisions, and adoption road maps.
• Proven ability to mentor and grow engineers and consultants.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK), MCP-based integrations, or multi-agent architectures.
• Familiarity with evaluation and observability tooling for LLM systems (e.g., LangSmith).
• Exposure to SAP or large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
• Experience contributing to practice growth: proposals, business development, or capability building.
• Advocacy of AI-native engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) within team workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI agent solutions across engagements, from discovery and rapid prototyping through to production deployment and go-live.
• Architect, build, and deploy production-grade AI agent systems, leveraging modern agent SDKs and orchestration frameworks.
• Design agentic workflows with tool use, agent skill, MCP-based integrations, memory and state management, multi-agent orchestration, and human-in-the-loop controls for enterprise-safe autonomy.
• Lead enterprise context engineering by connecting agents to SAP and non-SAP systems of record, designing knowledge retrieval and grounding strategies, and managing context across long-running tasks.
• Establish evaluation, observability, and monitoring practices for agent systems, including eval suites, tracing, and quality gates.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders, shaping AI strategy, architecture decisions, and the roadmap from proof-of-value to scaled adoption.
• Lead, mentor, and grow multi-disciplinary engineering teams, setting technical direction and raising engineering standards.
• Contribute to the growth of the SAP+ Design & Innovation practice by developing reusable assets and accelerators, supporting business development and proposals, and representing the team across the firm.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Support
• LLM
• MCP
• Python
• SAP
• TypeScript
• Agentic AI
• AI Agents

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We are Deloittes SAP+ Design & Innovation team, based in London with hybrid working, operating at the forefront of how organisations use cutting-edge AI to transform SAP landscapes. We work in a forward-deployed model, partnering closely with clients to embed intelligent agents into core business processes and help accelerate transformation journeys. This role sits within Technology and Transformation and offers a senior leadership platform with clear progression toward Director and Partner. We support flexible working, development, wellbeing, inclusion, and a culture where people grow together and contribute measurable impact.

last updated 35 week of 2026