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As our AI capability continues to grow, we're looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to design, develop and deliver intelligent AI solutions across complex customer environments.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role focused on building AI-powered applications, autonomous agents, orchestration frameworks and intelligent workflows using modern AI technologies and cloud platforms.\nYou'll work closely with Cloud Architects, Software Engineers, Data specialists and delivery teams to develop secure, scalable and production-ready AI solutions that help customers automate processes, improve decision-making and unlock the value of emerging technologies.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, develop and deploy AI-powered applications, agents and intelligent workflows.\nBuild agentic AI solutions capable of interacting with tools, systems and enterprise data.\nDevelop orchestration frameworks and multi-agent workflows to automate complex business processes.\nIntegrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI capabilities into applications and services.\nBuild Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions connecting AI models with enterprise data sources.\nDevelop APIs, integrations and supporting services for AI-powered applications.\nDesign and implement prompt engineering, context management and model evaluation approaches.\nDevelop and deploy AI solutions across cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and AWS.\nImplement automated testing, monitoring and evaluation processes for AI applications.\nApply appropriate security, governance and responsible AI principles.\nOptimise AI solutions for performance, reliability, scalability and cost.\nWork with Product, Engineering and Architecture teams to translate business requirements into practical AI solutions.\nContribute to technical design, engineering standards and AI development best practices.\nProvide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong experience in AI Engineering, Software Engineering or developing AI-powered applications.\nHands-on experience designing and building generative AI solutions, AI agents or intelligent automation.\nStrong development experience using Python and modern software engineering practices.\nExperience integrating LLMs and foundation models into applications using APIs and SDKs.\nUnderstanding of agentic AI concepts, tool calling, orchestration and workflow automation.\nExperience developing RAG solutions and integrating structured and unstructured data sources.\nExperience working with AI development frameworks and orchestration tooling.\nGood understanding of REST APIs, microservices and application integration.\nExperience developing and deploying applications within cloud environments such as Azure or AWS.\nExperience with CI/CD, automated testing, Git and modern DevOps practices.\nUnderstanding of AI security, governance, model evaluation and responsible AI principles.\nExperience working within Agile, multidisciplinary engineering teams.\nStrong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.\nDesirable Experience\nExperience across some of the following would be beneficial:\nMicrosoft Foundry, Azure AI services or Azure OpenAI.\nAWS Bedrock, SageMaker or other cloud-based AI services.\nAI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel or Microsoft Agent Framework.\nExperience with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude or other foundation models.\nVector databases, semantic search and embedding technologies.\nAzure AI Search, Amazon OpenSearch or equivalent technologies.\nMulti-agent architectures and complex workflow orchestration.\nModel evaluation, observability, tracing and AI performance monitoring.\nDocker, Kubernetes and containerised application deployments.\nInfrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep or similar.\nAI guardrails, content filtering and secure AI application design.\nExperience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, Microsoft 365 or Power Platform.\nExperience delivering AI solutions within Government, Defence or other regulated environments.\nRelevant cloud, software engineering or AI certifications.\nThe Opportunity\nThis role would suit an experienced AI Engineer who enjoys turning emerging AI technologies into practical, production-ready solutions.\nYou'll work on innovative AI projects, developing intelligent agents, automation capabilities and AI-powered applications that address real business challenges.\nWorking alongside experienced Cloud, Data, Software Engineering and Architecture specialists, you'll help shape UBDS's AI engineering capability and contribute to the delivery of secure, scalable and responsible AI solutions for our customers.\nBenefits\nWhy people choose to grow their careers at UBDS\nPeople are the most important aspect of our business, so adding the right people to the team and helping them grow is critical. This is why we’ve invested in a people-focused team to look after the entire employee experience.\nWith an impressive portfolio of customers in both the public and private sectors, we have a variety of exciting projects to be involved in. As a technology agnostic organisation, you’ll gain exposure to the world’s leading and latest technology.\nEmployee Benefits\n Training - All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development, whether it is technical led, business acumen or methodologies. We want you to grow with us and to help us achieve more \n Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality \n Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance \n Holiday - You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays\nElectric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice\n Contributed Pension Scheme \n Death in service cover\nHybrid Working - UBDS offers a flexible working environment to help enable you to operate at your maximum regardless of your location. With offices in London & Manchester we offer a culture that is focussed on outcomes and giving you a work life balance but at that same time creating and driving a culture of inclusivity and togetherness\nAbout UBDS\nUBDS was born out of a vision to build lasting relationships by delivering digital transformation solutions with unrivalled speed and efficiency. We have taken complex organisations to the frontier of innovation, transforming enterprise and public sector to be faster, leaner and more competitive.\nOrganisations turn to us for deep knowledge, specialist skills, years of on-the-job experience and our can-do and get-it done culture.\nProjects are personal. Our work is an extension of the values we embody, and we are always looking for ways to fill the gap for our clients. For us, it’s about top- and bottom-line growth, and equipping our clients with cutting-edge technology that empowers innovation.\nWe exist to deliver significant, measurable and sustainable digital transformation, and we achieve this by delivering value to our customers in the following ways:\n1. Accelerating change\n2. Ensuring frictionless high performance\n3. Mitigating risk and ensuring security\nFrom advisory, to design and execution, we implement the technology that aligns with our clients’ goals - to help them innovate and thrive. We have four key values that guide the way we work together, engage with our customers, make decisions, and ultimately succeed:\n Our reputation is everything\n We are passionate about technology and innovation\n We deliver value and make an impact\n We keep it simple and make it happen\nInterested in joining our innovative team?\nGet in touch. 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