AI Lead Engineer

Role : AI Lead Engineer

Location: London, UK

Type of Role: Contract

Mode of work: 2 Days onsite in Week

 ( Exp Range 9+) 

JD:

• Design agentic AI architectures using multi‑agent orchestration patterns (planner‑executor, supervisor‑worker, tool‑using agents).
• Define reference architectures for enterprise agent platforms integrating LLMs with systems of record (core banking, CRM, risk, payments).
• Design audit‑ready agent interactions, tool usage logs, and decision provenance.
• Select and standardize frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Google ADK, MCP, A2A patterns).
• Hands‑on expertise with agentic frameworks (orchestrators).
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, memory management.
• Exposure to AI quality metrics: task success rate, groundedness, containment, FCR.
• Experience on Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or equivalent hyperscale.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, generative AI, RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and prompt/guardrail engineering.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

• Build Production Grade Agentic AI applications and necessarily have navigated through security, governance and performance management of the end to end model.
• Strong understanding of regulated financial services environments.
• Proven experience implementing AI risk controls, model governance, and auditability.
• Strong experience designing end‑to‑end AI/ML architectures, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Hands‑on expertise with cloud AI platforms (GCP).
• Strong knowledge of LLMOps practices, including CI/CD for models, model registries, feature stores, lineage tracking, and observability.
• Experience architecting scalable real‑time, batch, and streaming inference systems with clear performance and reliability requirements.
• Familiarity with secure cloud patterns, IAM, VPC design, and data protection.
• Work with solution Architect and implement design along with team of engineers to ensure MVP delivered for Customer business banking usecases in onboarding / Credit assist