Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

At UBDS, we help organisations transform through cloud, cyber security, AI and digital innovation. 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.

This 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.

You'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.

What You'll Do

- Design, develop and deploy AI-powered applications, agents and intelligent workflows.
- Build agentic AI solutions capable of interacting with tools, systems and enterprise data.
- Develop orchestration frameworks and multi-agent workflows to automate complex business processes.
- Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI capabilities into applications and services.
- Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions connecting AI models with enterprise data sources.
- Develop APIs, integrations and supporting services for AI-powered applications.
- Design and implement prompt engineering, context management and model evaluation approaches.
- Develop and deploy AI solutions across cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and AWS.
- Implement automated testing, monitoring and evaluation processes for AI applications.
- Apply appropriate security, governance and responsible AI principles.
- Optimise AI solutions for performance, reliability, scalability and cost.
- Work with Product, Engineering and Architecture teams to translate business requirements into practical AI solutions.
- Contribute to technical design, engineering standards and AI development best practices.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.

What We're Looking For

- Strong experience in AI Engineering, Software Engineering or developing AI-powered applications.
- Hands-on experience designing and building generative AI solutions, AI agents or intelligent automation.
- Strong development experience using Python and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience integrating LLMs and foundation models into applications using APIs and SDKs.
- Understanding of agentic AI concepts, tool calling, orchestration and workflow automation.
- Experience developing RAG solutions and integrating structured and unstructured data sources.
- Experience working with AI development frameworks and orchestration tooling.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, microservices and application integration.
- Experience developing and deploying applications within cloud environments such as Azure or AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, Git and modern DevOps practices.
- Understanding of AI security, governance, model evaluation and responsible AI principles.
- Experience working within Agile, multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable Experience

Experience across some of the following would be beneficial:

- Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI services or Azure OpenAI.
- AWS Bedrock, SageMaker or other cloud-based AI services.
- AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel or Microsoft Agent Framework.
- Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude or other foundation models.
- Vector databases, semantic search and embedding technologies.
- Azure AI Search, Amazon OpenSearch or equivalent technologies.
- Multi-agent architectures and complex workflow orchestration.
- Model evaluation, observability, tracing and AI performance monitoring.
- Docker, Kubernetes and containerised application deployments.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep or similar.
- AI guardrails, content filtering and secure AI application design.
- Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, Microsoft 365 or Power Platform.
- Experience delivering AI solutions within Government, Defence or other regulated environments.
- Relevant cloud, software engineering or AI certifications.

The Opportunity

This role would suit an experienced AI Engineer who enjoys turning emerging AI technologies into practical, production-ready solutions.

You'll work on innovative AI projects, developing intelligent agents, automation capabilities and AI-powered applications that address real business challenges.

Working 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.

Benefits

Why people choose to grow their careers at UBDS

People 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.

With 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.

Employee Benefits

- 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
- Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality
- Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance
- 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
- Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice
- Contributed Pension Scheme
- Death in service cover
- Hybrid 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
About UBDS

UBDS 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.

Organisations turn to us for deep knowledge, specialist skills, years of on-the-job experience and our can-do and get-it done culture.

Projects 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.

We exist to deliver significant, measurable and sustainable digital transformation, and we achieve this by delivering value to our customers in the following ways:

1. Accelerating change

2. Ensuring frictionless high performance

3. Mitigating risk and ensuring security

From 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:

- Our reputation is everything
- We are passionate about technology and innovation
- We deliver value and make an impact
- We keep it simple and make it happen

Interested in joining our innovative team?

Get in touch. To find out more about this role, one of our other vacancies or to just talk about UBDS and where you might fit into one of our free thinking and ever-advancing teams, please head to https://apply.workable.com/ubds/ or send your CV to [email protected]

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.