AI Engineering Tech Lead - Energy Trading (Hybrid)

idpp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

idpp is seeking an experienced AI Engineering Tech Lead for an initial 6-month contract in London, hybrid work. You will own a portfolio of AI initiatives, lead hands-on development, collaborate with traders and analysts, and drive PoCs to production.

You will apply Python, LLMs, RAG and agentic workflows, establish engineering standards, ensure data security and governance, and report progress to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in software or AI engineering.
• Strong Python development and production software engineering experience.
• Proven experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications, including prompt engineering, RAG, tool use and agentic AI workflows.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally Azure or AWS, including their AI services.
• Familiarity with trading and risk systems such as Endur or Allegro.
• Strong engineering practices covering Git, testing, CI/CD and containerisation.
• Good data engineering experience, including SQL, APIs, data pipelines and time-series data.
• Experience delivering technology within large, regulated organisations.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams and managing third-party delivery partners.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a portfolio of AI proof of concepts across trading, shipping and operations.
• Work directly with traders, analysts and business stakeholders to identify opportunities and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead the hands-on development of AI applications using Python, LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows and relevant AI platforms.
• Rapidly prototype, test and evaluate solutions, demonstrating measurable commercial value and making clear recommendations on whether initiatives should be scaled or stopped.
• Develop integrations with internal data sources, market data platforms and trading systems.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards covering code quality, testing, model evaluation, monitoring and deployment.
• Drive successful proofs of concept towards production, working alongside business owners, digital and platform teams.
• Ensure solutions comply with data security, model governance, risk, compliance and cyber requirements.
• Provide technical leadership to a small engineering team and coordinate external technology partners where required.
• Report on delivery progress, technical outcomes and business value to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Python

LLMs

RAG

CI/CD

Git

Cloud platforms

Data pipelines

Time-series data

Stakeholder engagement

Production software engineering

Agentic AI

Trading domain knowledge

Tools

Azure

AWS

Endur

Allegro

Job description

idpp is seeking an experienced AI Engineering Tech Lead for an initial 6-month contract in London, hybrid work. You will own a portfolio of AI initiatives, lead hands-on development, collaborate with traders and analysts, and drive PoCs to production.

You will apply Python, LLMs, RAG and agentic workflows, establish engineering standards, ensure data security and governance, and report progress to senior stakeholders.