Head of Agentic AI Systems Engineering

ASOS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + celebration day

Discretionary bonus scheme

Private medical care scheme

Flexible benefits allowance

Learning opportunities

Employee sample sales

Job summary

ASOS is seeking a Head of Engineering (Agentic AI Systems) to lead a multidisciplinary team in designing and deploying advanced AI agents that augment decision‑making and automate workflows across fashion, product, and operations. You will partner with senior leaders to shape AI strategy and ensure scalable, secure implementations.

You will drive architectural excellence, oversee end‑to‑end delivery, and foster a high‑performance culture focused on business outcomes, reliability, and measurable

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading high‑performing engineering teams delivering complex, production‑grade AI or data‑driven systems.
• Ability to translate business goals into scalable technical delivery.
• Strong understanding of modern AI architecture patterns and cloud delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and deploy a multidisciplinary team of Forward Deployed AI Engineers across key business domains.
• Allocate engineering capability across strategic initiatives based on business priority and impact.
• Establish and embed best practices for agentic systems, AI workflows, LLM integrations, and AI‑enabled tooling.
• Drive a high‑performance engineering culture focused on rapid iteration, reliability, and measurable business outcomes.
• Act as the primary AI engineering partner to senior stakeholders across Product, Fashion, Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Care, Procurement, and Technology.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable AI solutions and prioritised delivery opportunities.
• Shape and align AI roadmaps with domain leaders, identifying high‑ROI automation and augmentation use cases.
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of agentic AI solutions, including copilots, workflow agents, decision systems, and automation platforms.

Skills

AI/ML

LLMs

Agentic AI

Stakeholder management

Cloud architectures

Azure

Hybrid leadership

Tools

Azure AI services

LLM orchestration

RAG patterns

Job description

ASOS is seeking a Head of Engineering (Agentic AI Systems) to lead a multidisciplinary team in designing and deploying advanced AI agents that augment decision‑making and automate workflows across fashion, product, and operations. You will partner with senior leaders to shape AI strategy and ensure scalable, secure implementations.

You will drive architectural excellence, oversee end‑to‑end delivery, and foster a high‑performance culture focused on business outcomes, reliability, and measurable