Senior AI Engineer - Contract - London/Hybrid - £650pd via Umbrella

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Delivery

• Hands on Implementation Gen AI solutions based on approved designs and architecture
• Develop, fine-tune, and optimize LLMs and Gen AI models for production use.
• Build and maintain prompt engineering strategies and RAG pipelines.
• Collaborate with architects, cloud teams, and business stakeholders to ensure secure and scalable deployments.
• Conduct unit and integration testing, troubleshoot issues, and ensure smooth deployment.
• Maintain accurate documentation of code, processes, and configurations.
• Monitor and improve model performance post-deployment.
• Collaborate with Cloud team in enabling secure and maintainable Gen AI solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards
• Develop prompt engineering strategies and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Monitor ever changing AI landscape and their application to the client
• Guide development teams through solution implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Guide and mentor other team members

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure all activity fully complies with the appropriate policies, procedures and controls
• Strict adherence to change management and privileged production access management processes

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Total 7+ years of exp and Min 3+ year of Hands-on Experience of implementing Gen AI solutions (Microsoft Azure, AWS, OCI etc).

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Strong expertise in developing Gen AI solutions in Python using frameworks such as Langchain, Langgraph, Microsoft Agents SDK etc
• CI/CD & MLOps for AI
• Model development and fine tuning
• Deep expertise in Prompt Engineering and RAG solutions
• Performance monitoring and optimisation
• Experience developing, deploying APIs using API Gateway
• Familiar with Azure Cloud services related to LLM deployments such as App Service, Azure Functions, Logic Apps
• Azure AI, Data and related services - Azure Open AI, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure AI search, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph
• Expertise in LLM integration patterns such as MCP, A2A
• Experience in architecting solutions combining On Premises systems and Cloud systems in a regulated environment
• Experience with GitHub Copilot or similar tools used in AI-assisted development