Generative AI Engineer

Location: Stratford, London

Rate: £400–£450 per day (Outside IR35)

Contract Length: 6-12 months

Client: Global Consultancy (End Client: Confidential Financial Institution)

We are partnering with a global consultancy who are delivering an AI‐driven automation and orchestration programme for a major enterprise client. They require an experienced AI Engineer / Senior Python Engineer with strong microservices experience, LLM integration and AWS serverless expertise to support the build of an intelligent prompt‐orchestration platform powered by AWS Bedrock.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python microservices, serverless functions (AWS Lambda), backend APIs and Python packages
• Build LLM‐powered agents, orchestration flows and MCP servers using AWS Bedrock
• Analyse logs, traces and evaluation outputs from a live AI product environment
• Design and maintain REST APIs interacting with AWS services including OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Kendra and S3
• Build and maintain Step Functions and workflow orchestration components
• Collaborate closely with DevOps engineers on deployments, operational support and CI/CD
• Contribute to automation pipelines using GitHub Actions and enforce branching and packaging standards
• Support code reviews, documentation standards and engineering best practice
• Assist with release management using Maven, Nexus and established RTL processes

Required Experience

• Strong commercial experience as a Python Engineer, AI Engineer or Backend Engineer
• Expertise with Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask or Django
• Hands‐on experience building RESTful APIs and scalable backend services
• Solid understanding of API security, versioning, performance and distributed system design
• Strong knowledge of AWS serverless stack: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Kendra, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
• Experience integrating with LLMs (preferably AWS Bedrock), prompt workflows or vector databases
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)
• Understanding of event‐driven architecture and serverless design patterns
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder-facing experience