AI Lead Engineer

Location: Croydon (once per week in-office)

Duration: 6‑12 months (initial)

Security Clearance: Active SC clearance required

Must have: 5+ years of unbroken UK residency

What you'll be doing:

• Providing technical leadership to engineering teams working on AI components, ensuring alignment with architecture and delivery plans.
• Overseeing technical design decisions, particularly around Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI logic, and related components, ensuring scalable and controlled integration.
• Collaborating with architects to translate high‑level solution designs into detailed engineering approaches.
• Working with delivery managers to identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and constraints.
• Reviewing design artefacts, integration plans, and testing strategies to provide assurance across workstreams.
• Ensuring AI components adhere to SDLC updat...