AI Engineering Manager

Digitech Resourcing Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Pension

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Digitech Resourcing Ltd is collaborating with a payments industry leader to recruit an AI Engineering Manager in London. You will blend hands-on AI/GenAI engineering with people leadership, delivering practical AI solutions while mentoring a small team.

You’ll drive the development lifecycle from PoC to production, shape the AI strategy, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate business problems into scalable AI capabilities across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AI/ML/GenAI engineering experience.
• Proven experience delivering GenAI/LLM solutions.
• Experience taking AI from PoC to production.
• Mentoring or leading engineers and data professionals.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on AI/GenAI engineering and people management.
• Oversee development and delivery of practical AI solutions.
• Mentor a small AI team and guide best practices.

Skills

Hands-on AI/GenAI engineering

GenAI/LLM solutions

LLMs/RAG/AI agents

Azure AI / Microsoft Foundry

PoC to production

Mentoring/leadership

Stakeholder management

Translating business problems into AI

AWS / GCP experience

Tools

Azure AI

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

£100,000 + 10 %bonus + excellent benefits / Pension

London – 2 days per week in the office

I'm currently working with a company at the forefront of the payments industry as they look to bring in an AI Engineering Manager to help shape and grow their AI capability.

You’ll be combining hands‑on AI/GenAI engineering with people leadership, working across the development and delivery of practical AI solutions while leading and mentoring a small team.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Strong hands‑on AI/ML/GenAI engineering experience
• Proven experience building and delivering GenAI/LLM solutions
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, AI agents or similar GenAI technologies
• Strong experience with Microsoft’s AI stack, ideally Azure AI, Azure AI Foundry / Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio and Microsoft Fabric
• Experience taking AI solutions from PoC through to production
• Experience mentoring, coaching or technically leading other engineers/data professionals
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience translating business problems into practical AI solutions
• Microsoft experience is highly desirable, but strong AWS, GCP or other modern AI platform experience will also be considered

You’ll be joining a growing AI function with the opportunity to shape the direction of AI engineering, develop the team’s capabilities and have a genuine impact on how AI is adopted across the organisation.