Lead AI Engineer — Deploy & Automate Business Solutions

EY; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Core Business Services. This hands-on role includes leadership responsibilities and oversight across AI projects and automation tools. You will design AI agents, orchestration layers, and scalable solutions while guiding junior engineers.

The position offers a permanent, full-time role with location flexibility across UK offices and a focus on governance, security, and AI risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building AI agents and automation tools.
• Ability to lead others while delivering hands-on technical work.
• Ability to design scalable cloud-native AI solutions and governance.
• Experience translating business problems into deliverable technical scope.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agents and automation tools to solve complex problems and improve business processes.
• Design AI solutions across multiple projects, including orchestration layers and scalable, reusable solutions.
• Decide between, and build with, both low-code and pro-code approaches.
• Design cloud native solutions as the platform for AI solutions, and integrate new AI offerings.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of projects and of the work of others, alongside building yourself.
• Set engineering standards and review the code and solutions produced by the team.
• Shape and scope new demand as it comes in, translating business problems into deliverable technical scope with an assessment of effort and feasibility.
• Own governance and set-up end to end, including AI risk assessment, information security, data loss prevention.

Skills

AI engineering leadership

Hands-on AI development

Technical oversight

Cloud native

Low-code / pro-code

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Core Business Services. This hands-on role includes leadership responsibilities and oversight across AI projects and automation tools. You will design AI agents, orchestration layers, and scalable solutions while guiding junior engineers.

The position offers a permanent, full-time role with location flexibility across UK offices and a focus on governance, security, and AI risk assessment.