AI CoE Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 6, 2026. Version 1 scores B on the Alion truth index.
Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:
- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.
About the role
Version 1 has 98% AI adoption across the business, live agentic deployments, and a governance framework that routes each use case to self-service AI or CoE-led transformation. The AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) takes the complex, high-value use cases and turns them into production systems. Demand is growing and the CoE is taking on more production work. We are adding two AI CoE Engineers to give the team stable, senior hands-on capability.
You will work with business teams to understand their problems, then design, build and prove solutions. You will also set technical standards and help others in the CoE, including interns and early-career engineers, to build well. This is a hands-on role with an architecture element: you will shape solution designs and write the code that proves them.
Key responsibilities
- Understand the problem. Work with business and delivery teams to turn challenges and requirements into clear, scoped AI use cases.
- Build proofs of concept. Design and build working prototypes quickly, test them with users, and take the strongest into production.
- Design solutions. Define the architecture for agentic and generative AI solutions, covering model choice, data, integration, security and cost.
- Engineer for production. Build reliable, observable and maintainable AI applications, and support them once live.
- Support and develop others. Coach CoE colleagues and interns, review code and designs, and run training sessions that raise AI skills across the business.
- Set standards. Contribute reusable patterns, tooling and guidance, and feed lessons back into the CoE's governance model.
- Stay current. Track new models, tools and techniques, test them, and bring forward those that earn a place in our work.
What we are looking for
Technical skills
- Strong software engineering in Python or similar, with experience delivering working systems.
- Hands-on experience building with large language models: prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use and agentic workflows.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and of data and integration patterns.
- Able to design a solution end to end and explain the trade-offs.
How you work
- Hands on who takes a problem and runs with it. Startup or fast-moving product experience is a strong advantage.
- Naturally curious and quick to learn as the technology changes.
- Clear communicator with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Patient, practical mentor who enjoys helping others improve.
Experience
- Typically 5 to 8 years in software or data engineering, with recent hands-on AI work. Evidence of what you have built matters more than years served.
Helpful extras
- Experience with AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI or Azure OpenAI models.
- Public work such as open-source contributions, published projects or talks.
Why Version 1?
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.
Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.
Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.
We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.
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