AI Engineer (MS Stack)

AI Engineer (MS Stack)

Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for an AI Engineer with strong experience across the Microsoft AI stack, supporting a wave of AI innovation, solution design and capability uplift across the business.

You'll act as a flexible, hands-on technical specialist who can plug gaps, drive early-stage delivery, and accelerate our roadmap across Azure AI Foundry, M365 agents, Copilot extensibility and broader Microsoft tooling.

This role suits someone who is highly autonomous, delivery-focused, and capable of handling a wide mix of early-stage engineering, documentation, prototyping and solution shaping

This role is based in London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

What You'll Be Doing:

AI Engineering & Build

• Designing and building AI solutions using:
• Azure AI Foundry
• M365 Agents
• Copilot extensions / plugins
• Micro stack orchestration
• Python as the primary engineering language
• Creating purpose-built AI agents aligned to CRM AI business maps, workflow automation and productivity conversations.

Innovation & Pilot Delivery

• Driving innovation pilots, PoCs and early discovery work across the business.
• Working alongside internal engineers and external partners to fill capability gaps and accelerate delivery.
• Acting as an SME in the Foundry space, advising on design patterns, feasibility and technical constraints.

Technical Ownership

• Producing clear solution design, documentation and reusable patterns.
• Helping shape IP, frameworks and technical assets that can be scaled beyond the contract period.
• Supporting teams who are still early in their AI maturity - translating concepts into workable, pragmatic solutions.

Key Skills and Experience:

Technical Skills

• Strong engineering background with Python at the core.
• Hands-on experience across the Microsoft AI ecosystem, including:
• Azure AI Foundry
• M365 extensibility / agent frameworks
• Copilot customisation
• Microstack orchestration
• Ability to design and implement end-to-end AI workflows and agents.

AI Expertise

• Solid understanding of modern AI concepts and patterns developed over the last few years.
• Experience in LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, prompt engineering and real-world delivery.
• An "eye for making it work" - practical, production-focused engineering.

Ways of Working

• Able to step into an environment that is "a million miles off the mark" and bring clarity to solution design.
• Comfortable bridging gaps between technology and business-facing stakeholders.
• Strong documentation, communication and design thinking skills.

Ethical & Responsible AI

• Awareness of responsible AI principles and ability to embed guardrails into design and engineering decisions.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.