Lead AI Engineer

We're partnered with a leading global management and technology consultancy seeking a talented Lead AI Engineer to join their Technology Delivery team in London. Known for their entrepreneurial culture and deep expertise across financial services, this is an exceptional opportunity to architect and deliver next-generation AI systems at the heart of some of the world's most complex financial institutions.

You'll take a hands-on leadership role designing and deploying generative AI and agentic systems end-to-end - from early architecture through to production - working across multidisciplinary teams and directly shaping how leading financial institutions adopt AI at scale.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing and delivering autonomous AI systems that bring together multi-modal LLMs.
• Building agentic workflows that connect AI agents to live data sources and APIs, drawing on prompt engineering and RAG to drive accuracy and relevance
• Optimising and shipping large language and multi-modal models into production, balancing performance, latency, and reliability at enterprise scale
• Developing robust MLOps pipelines and full-stack applications that underpin scalable, production-ready AI deployments
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and internal teams on GenAI strategy, making complex AI concepts accessible and actionable for business stakeholders

What we're looking for:

• A strong record of taking LLMs and multi-modal models from development through to production, with real experience of operating at scale
• Solid Python engineering skills, with a proven ability to build and ship backend systems and APIs
• Hands-on knowledge of MLOps, cloud-native infrastructure, and the observability practices that keep AI systems performing in the real world
• Comfortable leading technical teams and bridging the gap between engineering and business - able to bring stakeholders along on complex decisions in fast-moving agile environments
• Practical experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex

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