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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.\nWe’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:\nUK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner\n\n3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business\n\n10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK\n\nBest Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW\n\nBest Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW\n\nWe’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!.\n Role Summary\nThis role is for an experienced AI Technical Lead. The role requires experience designing, developing, and delivering AI solutions for large-scale organisations. We are seeking a hands-on technical leader with strong AI engineering capabilities to lead proof-of-concept development and production implementation while providing technical leadership across the delivery lifecycle.\nResponsibilities\nLead the design, development, testing, and deployment of secure, scalable, and reusable AI solutions using approved enterprise platforms and technologies.\n\nBuild and integrate LLM, RAG, and multi-agent solutions using frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain, or similar.\n\nDevelop and maintain AI-powered applications, APIs, and backend services.\n\nLead the development of proof-of-concepts and pilot solutions, validating technical feasibility and supporting the transition into production solutions.\n\nWork with Business Analysts, SMEs, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into production-ready AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.\n\nCollaborate with architects, data engineers, product owners, and QA teams to deliver end-to-end AI solutions.\n\nProvide technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, and guidance to development teams.\n\nAssess technical feasibility, integration requirements, data readiness, and solution constraints when defining AI solutions.\n\nApply engineering best practices for AI deployment, monitoring, optimisation, security, and lifecycle management.\n\nEnsure AI solutions comply with architecture, security, DevSecOps, Responsible AI, and regulatory standards.\n\nMaintain technical documentation and support knowledge sharing across delivery teams.\n\n Essential Experience\n8+ years' experience in the application development lifecycle.\n\nExperience leading development teams and providing technical leadership.\n\nProven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.\n\nStrong hands-on experience developing AI-powered applications and services.\n\nExperience in backend development for AI applications and orchestration of LLMs or multi-agent systems.\n\nExperience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar AI platforms.\n\nExperience in prompt engineering and working with multiple AI models.\n\nExperience developing proof-of-concepts and successfully scaling them into production solutions.\n\nProficiency in Python and modern AI development frameworks.\n\nExperience working with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.\n\nExperience integrating enterprise systems through APIs, services, and data platforms.\n\nStrong and effective communication skills with experience engaging directly with business stakeholders.\n\nDesirable Experience\nExperience with Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar frameworks.\n\nExperience with vector databases, RAG architectures, and enterprise search solutions.\n\nExperience with MLOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and model lifecycle management.\n\nUnderstanding of data governance, Responsible AI, GDPR, and AI regulatory requirements.\n\nExperience working in regulated or complex enterprise environments.\n\nFamiliarity with Agile methodologies, Scrum practices, and application lifecycle management.\n\n Why Version 1?\nAt Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.\nShare in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits\n\nStrong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme\n\nFlexible/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\n\nFinancial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme\n\nEmployee 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\n\nEducational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat\n\nReward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.\n\nEnvironment, 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.\n\nAnd many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.\nVersion 1 is an equal opportunities employer.\nWe 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.\nWe 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. 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