Azure Cloud & AI Engineer – Financial Services

We’re partnering with an Investment Bank to hire a Cloud & AI Engineer to join a growing engineering function focused on next-generation cloud platforms, automation, and AI enablement within a highly regulated banking environment.

As AI adoption accelerates across the business, this team is evolving beyond traditional cloud infrastructure into a modern engineering capability responsible for building scalable, secure and sustainable AI-driven solutions across their multi-cloud environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role sitting at the intersection of cloud, software development and AI innovation.

The Opportunity:

You’ll join a collaborative engineering team responsible for designing and delivering cloud-native and AI-ready solutions that underpin critical banking services. The role offers exposure to modern cloud architecture, automation frameworks, generative AI tooling and enterprise-scale engineering challenges.

You will:

• Design and implement cloud and AI solutions predominantly across Azure, with exposure to AWS/ GCP.
• Develop bespoke automation frameworks, integration, and AI‐driven components to support business requirements.
• Develop REST APIs and identity-aware services
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD and platform engineering best practices
• Support AI governance, security controls and responsible AI initiatives
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security and application teams on scalable cloud solutions
• Contribute to architecture standards, reusable patterns and operational excellence

Key Skills & Experience:

We’re looking for engineers with strong cloud engineering fundamentals combined with software development and automation expertise.

Essential:

• Deep Azure engineering experience
• Experience of Python/ PowerShell scripting skills
• Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI SDK/models, and applying AI services to real-world use cases.
• OpenAI SDK, GPT models, embeddings and vector workflows
• Experience developing REST APIs and integrations
• Knowledge of identity and authentication technologies including OAuth2 and Entra ID
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, governance and compliance

Desirable:

• Azure API Management experience
• Exposure to Azure OpenAI / Generative AI tooling
• AI governance / Responsible AI exposure
• CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Experience within financial services or regulated environments

Why Join?

• Opportunity to work on enterprise AI adoption within global banking
• Exposure to a mutli-cloud environment
• High-impact engineering role with strategic visibility
• Collaborative and forward-thinking technical environment
• Strong focus on innovation, automation and modern engineering practices