Agentic AI Specialist in Sherborne St John

Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related STEM field.
• Substantial experience designing, building, and deploying enterprise AI/ML solutions, including technical leadership on complex projects.
• Track record of delivering secure, scalable software or data systems, with experience leading a small engineering team and/or delivery partners.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to guide technical teams and work effectively with stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of modern AI/ML architectures, including practical experience developing or integrating machine learning models or AI agents.
• Strong software engineering capability, including Python, cloud platforms, and MLOps/DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, automated testing, and model deployment and monitoring.
• Ability to meet security clearance requirements and work within a high-security environment.
• Experience in a highly regulated or secure industry, such as defence, government, or nuclear, would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI delivery, turning prototypes into secure, scalable AI solutions that drive innovation and efficiency across the organisation.
• Lead a cross-functional AI engineering team, providing technical and team leadership for enterprise AI development.
• Own the end-to-end AI architecture across agents, models, data flows, and integrations, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to a coherent enterprise ecosystem.
• Oversee the design, build, and production deployment of AI services, ensuring security, compliance, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Establish the infrastructure, tooling, and automated pipelines needed for efficient development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI models and agents.
• Deliver secure APIs, data pipelines, and connectors so AI solutions integrate effectively with enterprise systems and business processes.
• Implement monitoring, incident management, and continuous optimisation to ensure dependable, cost-efficient AI services in production.
• Provide architectural leadership, uphold engineering and security standards, and mentor engineers to grow internal capability.
• Work closely with AI Adoption, AI Platform & Capability Development, Governance, and business teams to move solutions from prototype to enterprise scale.
• Foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on rapid delivery, continuous improvement, and realisation of AI value.
• Maintain architecture standards, service metrics, and support models to ensure AI services remain accurate, efficient, and sustainable.
• Operate effectively within a high-security environment, following strict safety, security, and assurance protocols.

Technologies

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Python
• Security

We are AWE, based at RG7 4PR between Reading and Basingstoke with free onsite parking. We offer a salary package of £61,460 to £95,000 depending on suitability, qualifications, and experience, along with a 9-day working fortnight, flexible working requests, and hybrid working available on an informal, non-contractual basis. We provide award-winning benefits including generous annual leave, a contributory pension scheme, family-friendly leave, professional development support, an employee assistance programme, occupational health services, life assurance, discounts, and special leave for volunteering, public service, and caring. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe, and we operate in a high-security environment with strict safety, security, and assurance standards.