AI Forward Deployment Engineer

CGI Group Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance coverage

Medical benefits

Pension plan

Member Assistant Programme

Check4Cancer

Flexible time off

Share Purchase Plan

Job summary

CGI Group Inc. in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior technologist to lead the design and delivery of agentic AI solutions.

You will work directly with clients and CGI teams to identify high-value opportunities, shape them from discovery to production, and balance innovation with security and business value. You will prototype MVPs, design scalable architectures, and ensure end-to-end delivery across UI, backend services, APIs, and cloud environments while maintaining strong customer

Qualifications

• Hands-on agentic AI experience and ability to prototype
• Strong engineering foundations across front-end and back-end
• Client-facing capability including pre-sales or solution engineering
• Exposure to agent frameworks and enterprise AI capabilities

Responsibilities

• Discover & Shape opportunities with clients and CGI teams
• Prototype & Validate AI-driven MVPs and interfaces
• Design & Deploy agentic AI systems integrated with enterprise infra
• Engineer & Integrate across UI, APIs, data and cloud
• Secure & Scale concepts into production solutions
• Advise & Influence with stakeholders and bids/tenders
• Innovate & Reuse successful implementations as reusable patterns
• Collaborate with CGI and client specialists to deliver business value

Skills

Agentic AI

AI Tooling

Full-stack

Pre-sales

Communication

Agent frameworks

Microsoft AI

Platform CI/CD

Finance domain

Job description

In this role, you will work directly with clients and CGI teams to identify high-value opportunities for agentic AI, turning ambiguous business challenges into clearly scoped solutions with measurable outcomes. You'll take ownership from early discovery and pre-sales through rapid prototyping, pilots and operational deployment, using your engineering judgement to balance innovation, technical feasibility, security and business value. You'll have the opportunity to experiment with emerging AI capabilities while being supported by specialists across architecture, cyber, platforms and governance. As solutions prove their value, you'll help evolve them into secure, scalable products and reusable patterns that can accelerate AI adoption across CGI's clients and sectors.

• Discover & Shape - Embed with clients to understand workflows, technology and business challenges, identifying valuable opportunities for AI.
• Prototype & Validate - Rapidly create prototypes, interfaces and MVPs that demonstrate possibilities and validate ideas.
• Design & Deploy - Build agentic AI systems that integrate with enterprise infrastructure, data and operational workflows.
• Engineer & Integrate - Develop across user interfaces, backend services, APIs, integrations, data and cloud environments.
• Secure & Scale - Progress validated concepts into robust, governed and scalable production solutions.
• Advise & Influence - Present solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute technical expertise to RFPs, bids and tenders.
• Innovate & Reuse - Transform successful implementations into reusable agentic patterns, workflows, assets and propositions.
• Collaborate & Deliver - Work alongside CGI and client specialists to overcome complex engineering challenges and deliver lasting business value.
  You'll combine strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience of AI-assisted development and an understanding of agentic AI. You should be comfortable working directly with clients, navigating ambiguity and moving quickly from ideas to working software.

Curiosity about emerging AI technologies is important, alongside the judgement to apply them responsibly within complex enterprise environments. You'll be supported in deepening your expertise while having the autonomy to explore new approaches and influence CGI's evolving AI capabilities.

• Hands-on AI tooling experience - Experience with OpenAI Codex, Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code or comparable AI-assisted/agentic coding tools.
• Agentic AI understanding - Practical knowledge of context, tool use, orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.
• Strong engineering foundations - Broad understanding of front-end applications, backend services, APIs, integrations and cloud infrastructure.
• End-to-end delivery experience - Experience progressing software from experimentation and prototyping into operational deployment.
• Client-facing capability - Experience in pre-sales, solution engineering, consulting or client-embedded delivery.
• Clear communication - Ability to explain complex technical concepts, value, limitations and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Desirable agent engineering experience - Exposure to OpenAI Agents SDK/API, Codex SDK/API, MCP, skills, subagents or comparable agent frameworks.
• Desirable Microsoft AI experience - Exposure to technologies such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Copilot Studio or related Microsoft AI capabilities.
• Desirable enterprise AI experience - Knowledge of evaluation, observability, permissions, sandboxing, human oversight and deploying AI in secure or regulated environments.
• Desirable platform experience - Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, DevOps and enterprise integration.
• Desirable sector experience - Financial services or banking domain experience.
  Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging.

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team - one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Discover CGI London, England, United Kingdom > 1000 employees IT services We are a global business with 91,500 professionals across hundreds of locations worldwide, providing end-to-end IT and business process services that drive our clients' businesses. In the UK alone, we have around 6,000 member-partners working across 19 towns and cities, doing everything from writing complex code to designing sophisticated software solutions. The work we do powers some of the most ambitious projects that touch the lives of many. Our approach sets us apart, characterised by our proximity model, international presence, expertise, and operational excellence. We organise our operations within metro markets where our clients have concentrated footprints, empowering our local teams to build trusted, in-person relationships. As you build your career here, you'll develop your skills, share your insights, and work side-by-side with colleagues and clients on innovative solutions that address the most complex issues. Our commitment to ownership, flexibility, and being approachable makes us easy to do business with. Join us, and together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action to meet the needs and balance the interests of our clients, shareholders, communities, and each other.

Benefits:

• Insurance coverage
• Medical benefits
• Pension plan
• Member Assistant Programme
• Check4Cancer
• Flexible time off
• Share Purchase Plan