AI Engineering Lead: Drive AI Platforms & Teams

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Scotland; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management in Glasgow seeks an AI Engineering Lead to guide engineering teams, shape AI strategy, and deliver secure, scalable AI-enabled software solutions. You will collaborate with business partners, architecture, risk and security to ensure strategic initiatives succeed.

The role focuses on designing deployment strategies for AI-enabled platforms, and guiding cross-functional teams across business lines to optimise client outcomes while maintaining strong

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading AI engineering in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience deploying AI applications on AWS, including Bedrock and related services.
• Knowledge of vector stores (Pinecone/Weaviate/OpenSearch) and semantic search implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams delivering AI-enabled solutions with robust testing and governance.
• Define technical approaches and deployment strategies for AI platforms.
• Collaborate with business, architecture, risk and security to ensure aligned delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes and tools to enhance efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

AI Engineering

AWS

ML deployment

Semantic search

REST/GraphQL

RAG prompts

Risk & controls

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Lambda

API Gateway

Pinecone

Weaviate

OpenSearch

Job description

Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management in Glasgow seeks an AI Engineering Lead to guide engineering teams, shape AI strategy, and deliver secure, scalable AI-enabled software solutions. You will collaborate with business partners, architecture, risk and security to ensure strategic initiatives succeed.

The role focuses on designing deployment strategies for AI-enabled platforms, and guiding cross-functional teams across business lines to optimise client outcomes while maintaining strong