Lead AI Engineer in Eastleigh

Step into a role where your work shapes the future of insurance. At Ageas/esure, we’re building on an exciting foundation of 20 live AI use cases already empowering over 900 frontline colleagues — and we’re just getting started!

As a Lead AI Engineer, you’ll take a central role in driving and delivering the next generation of AI‑powered solutions across our business. You’ll lead a team of AI Engineers of all levels, setting technical direction, owning end‑to‑end project delivery and ensuring our solutions generate real, measurable impact. Alongside your hands‑on technical work, you’ll mentor and develop the team, guide requirement‑gathering with stakeholders, and play a key part in defining our future AI strategy.

If you’re motivated by technical leadership, large‑scale impact and building high‑performing AI capability, this is a chance to truly shape our AI future.

• Support and develop a small team, helping them grow and progress.
• Work with leaders to set and improve engineering and R&D standards.
• Shape the AI roadmap across both use cases and technology.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to understand processes and data, identifying high‑value GenAI opportunities.
• Drive scalable AI delivery as part of the DataScience & AI team, contributing to innovation across the enterprise.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, supporting the growth of a high‑performing team.
• Proven experience delivering AI into production, solving real commercial problems and measuring impact.
• A self‑starter with a track record of taking research and models through to production to drive tangible business and customer value.
• Comfortable working both autonomously and collaboratively in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional environment.
• Strong experience with advanced NLP, including developing models, prompt engineering and fine‑tuning LLMs in a commercial setting.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK.

• Flexible Working - Smart Working at Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments.
• Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth - 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work - Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Get some Tech - Deals on gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas - We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive.

We have a zero‑tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism. Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working arrangements.