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Justian Blount
Data & AI Practice Director
Full Time
London, London
£85,000
AI Tech Lead Developer - Generative & Agentic AI
Python | Java | FastAPI | AWS | LLMs | Agentic AI | Technical Leadership
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 + Benefits
Location: London - Hybrid (3 days per week onsite)
Employment: Permanent
We're recruiting an experienced, hands-on AI Tech Lead Developer to join a technology consultancy delivering enterprise-scale Generative and Agentic AI solutions for a major financial services client.
This is an opportunity to lead a team of AI Developers, combining technical leadership with hands-on engineering to build secure, scalable AI applications within a complex enterprise environment.
You'll work alongside experienced architects, platform engineers and development teams, helping shape the technical direction and delivery of production-ready AI solutions.
The role
Leading a team of AI Developers delivering enterprise-grade Generative and Agentic AI solutions
Designing and developing Python and Java services, APIs and AI components
Building LLM integrations, RAG architectures and agent-based workflows
Developing prompt orchestration, output validation and AI evaluation capabilities
Working with AWS services including Bedrock, AgentCore, EKS, EC2, S3 and SQS
Designing CI/CD pipelines, automation and DevOps practices
Integrating AI services with enterprise security and observability frameworks
Collaborating with architects and engineering teams to establish reusable patterns and engineering standards
Providing technical guidance, troubleshooting and performance optimisation
What we're looking for
You'll have strong commercial software engineering experience, with hands-on Generative AI development expertise and experience leading technical teams. We'd expect experience across a good mix of:
Strong Python, Java and FastAPI development experience
Generative AI, Agentic AI and Large Language Models
RAG architectures, prompt orchestration and LLM integration
AWS cloud engineering, particularly Bedrock and AgentCore
CI/CD, DevOps and engineering automation
RESTful APIs, microservices and distributed systems
Technical leadership and mentoring
Experience delivering secure, production-grade applications
Experience with Terraform, GitOps, Kong API Gateway, vector search, SQL/NoSQL databases and AI evaluation tools such as Arize or Promptfoo would also be useful.
Previous experience working within financial services, insurance or other regulated environments would be beneficial.
What's on offer
Permanent salary of £75,000 - £85,000
London hybrid working - 3 days per week onsite
Opportunity to lead enterprise-scale AI development
Hands-on exposure to modern Generative and Agentic AI technologies
Collaboration with experienced AI engineers, architects and platform specialists
Ideally, you'll have 12+ years' commercial experience and be available immediately or within four weeks.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced AI Tech Lead or Lead Developer who wants to remain technically hands-on while leading the delivery of enterprise-grade AI solutions.
Interested? Get in touch to find out more.
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