Senior & Lead AI Engineer
This is an opportunity to join a growing AI function at a business investing heavily in artificial intelligence, automation, and digital transformation. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, delivering production-grade AI solutions, and influencing how AI is embedded across a large, commercially focused organisation.
The Role
You will take ownership of AI initiatives from concept through to production, helping design and deliver solutions that solve real business challenges.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading the design and delivery of production-grade Generative AI and AI-powered solutions
- Owning architecture decisions across AI products and platforms
- Building and deploying LLM, RAG, and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale
- Evaluating build versus buy approaches and making pragmatic technology recommendations
- Working closely with engineering, security, governance, and business stakeholders
- Driving technical standards, best practices, and reusable AI frameworks
- Supporting and mentoring engineers across multiple workstreams
- Contributing to AI strategy and helping prioritise high-value use cases
- Ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready
Your Skills & Experience
You will bring:
- Strong commercial experience delivering Generative AI solutions into production
- Proven capability leading end-to-end AI projects from discovery through deployment
- Deep understanding of LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic AI, orchestration, prompting, and evaluation
- Strong software engineering foundations, including APIs, cloud architectures, and system design
- Experience making architecture and technology decisions within complex environments
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly evolving problem spaces
- Experience collaborating with security, governance, compliance, and data protection teams
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience within enterprise-scale organisations, ideally in regulated environments
- Exposure to AWS and modern AI engineering practices is highly desirable
Senior AI Engineer in Slough employer: Harnham
As a leading specialist data consultancy, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that empowers our Analytics Engineering Consultants to thrive. With a focus on professional development, we offer extensive growth opportunities and the chance to work on high-impact projects across diverse industries, all while enjoying the flexibility of remote work in the UK. Join us to be part of a team that values your expertise and encourages you to influence strategy and drive meaningful change for our clients.
