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You will build and run applications for the IFS M&A Group and deliver production AI solutions to acquired companies. You will work with their business and technical stakeholders to understand the problem, prototype quickly, connect to existing systems, and deliver implementations that work at scale.\nYou work independently with limited guidance on assigned projects, within the group's approved architecture, security and data standards. You escalate decisions that fall outside those guidelines to your manager.\nKey Responsibilities\nDeliver assigned AI projects and workstreams, from discovery through design, build, deployment, verification, training and support. Priorities and scope are agreed with your manager.\n\nSupport discovery with business and technical stakeholders to understand workflows, systems and desired outcomes, and help identify suitable AI use cases.\n\nAnalyse non-routine requirements, recommend practical solution designs, and implement them as tested code. Prototype quickly to validate a use case.\n\nBuild integrations that connect AI platforms to existing applications, APIs and data sources, using service identities with the narrowest scopes and following approved security and data governance policies.\n\nShip AI features that are scoped to the user, name sources and models on every answer, and are tested before release.\n\nBuild agentic systems that automate processes and use enterprise tools within defined guardrails.\n\nTake solutions from prototype to production and run them: jobs, backups, monitoring, access and incident write-ups.\n\nTrain users and support adoption. Measure results against the objectives agreed at the start of each project.\n\nRecommend models and platforms within the group's approved standards. 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