Lead AI-Enabled DevOps Architect

Lorien; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is seeking a Lead AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer in the Greater London area to shape how AI is embedded into production-grade software. You will lead through technical depth and architectural judgement, guiding teams as AI capabilities are integrated into modern platforms.

This delivery-focused leadership role requires senior credibility, strong engineering practices, and the ability to balance innovation with practicality in production environments.

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead Software Engineer or similar hands-on leadership role.
• Strong fundamentals: design, clean code, testing.
• Experience designing API-driven microservices.
• Proven ability to modernise or integrate Legacy systems.
• Proficient in TypeScript and Python.
• Experience spanning software delivery, CI/CD, infrastructure, and operations.
• Comfortable setting direction and influencing teams without formal authority.
• Balance innovation with pragmatism in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps engineering teams.
• Set architectural direction for API-first design, system integration, and platform enablement for AI.
• Lead the modernisation of Legacy or existing applications toward service-based, API-driven architectures.
• Define and guide integration patterns between applications, platforms, and AI services.
• Make pragmatic decisions about when and how emerging AI integration approaches should be adopted.
• Work closely with architects, product teams, data scientists, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Ensure solutions meet standards for security, resilience, performance, and operability.
• Anticipate and manage architectural and operational risks associated with AI-enabled systems.
• Champion strong engineering practices across software development, DevOps, and platform engineering.
• Lead by example in complex environments where production reliability matters.

Skills

Senior Software Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

API design

Microservices

TypeScript

Python

CI/CD

Platform engineering

Security

Resilience

Tools

MCP protocol

Job description

Lorien is seeking a Lead AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer in the Greater London area to shape how AI is embedded into production-grade software. You will lead through technical depth and architectural judgement, guiding teams as AI capabilities are integrated into modern platforms.

This delivery-focused leadership role requires senior credibility, strong engineering practices, and the ability to balance innovation with practicality in production environments.