Lead AI Engineer

2 months ago


GB, UK Sopra Steria Full time
Are you someone who excels in the field of Artificial Intelligence, ready to take the lead in developing innovative AI solutions? Join our dynamic AI & Data Practice as a Lead AI Engineer, where you'll spearhead engineering teams, design innovative solutions, and make sure our AI projects triumph in terms of time, budget, and quality.

As a senior AI expert, your role goes beyond just delivering solutions - you will be at the forefront of shaping the future of AI. Engage with clients to craft innovative proposals and bids, showcasing the exceptional value our AI solutions bring to their businesses.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:
  • Lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence.
  • Propose optimal solutions and lead the design and delivery across pre-sales, projects and as repeatable blueprints.
  • Make day to day decisions about the setup and priorities for the engineering community and make sure the right skills are maintained within the engineering function.
  • Lead teams, and support team members and junior colleagues in the performance of their respective roles.
  • Build and the support the development of compelling propositions to take to market in the AI & Data field.
  • Focused on delivery excellence to ensure projects succeed against time, budget and quality, with a focus on reducing risk and technical debt.

What you'll bring:
  • Proven leadership and team development skills.
  • Expertise in AI tools and techniques, including GenAI, LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Llama), and advanced features (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG).
  • Knowledge of data and AI standards (GDPR, Information Security, ethical AI).
  • Experience with leading tools i.e. AWS Sagemaker, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Platform / Machine Learning and Jupyter.
  • Skills in AI document processing (OCR, handwriting recognition, computer vision).
  • Development of AI-enhanced digital assistants (Microsoft Copilot).
  • Data architectures including data integration, management, reporting and analytics, simulation and digital twins.
  • AI assisted software development and testing using tools such as GitHub Copilot or AWS CodeWhisperer.
  • Cloud native delivery engineering such as Containers / Kubernetes, event driven architecture and microservices.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: United Kingdom

Security Clearance Level: SC Eligible

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: Dependent on experience

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

We support the UK Government to tackle today's biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We've been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
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