Lead AI Engineer: Generative AI on Azure

La Fosse; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking an AI Engineering Lead to establish and grow an internal Azure AI engineering capability in the UK. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Generative AI solutions and enterprise integration.

You will set standards, guide architects, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, production-grade AI applications that scale across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering production AI solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Commercial experience with Generative AI or AI-enabled applications.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry or equivalent.
• Understanding of RAG, AI Search, agentic workflows, Document Intelligence and evaluation.
• Strong software engineering foundations with Python and C#/.NET.
• Experience taking AI solutions into secure production environments.
• Ability to communicate AI architecture and risks to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development of an internal Azure AI engineering capability.
• Designing and delivering production grade Generative AI and AI enabled solutions.
• Providing technical direction across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AI Search and Document Intelligence.
• Designing RAG solutions, agentic workflows, tool calling, grounding and structured outputs.
• Determining where AI provides genuine value versus where traditional deterministic approaches are more appropriate.
• Establishing reusable AI architecture, engineering patterns and development standards.
• Leading and mentoring engineers working across AI enabled solutions.
• Designing how AI applications integrate securely with enterprise systems, APIs, data and workflows.
• Addressing AI specific risks including hallucinations, prompt injection, data leakage and uncontrolled agent actions.
• Establishing appropriate evaluation, monitoring, security and governance around production AI.
• Remaining hands on across Python, C#/.NET and Azure where required.
• Owning the technical lifecycle of AI solutions from architecture and development through to deployment and production.

Skills

Azure architecture

Generative AI

Python

C#/.NET

CI/CD

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Document Intelligence

Job description

La Fosse is seeking an AI Engineering Lead to establish and grow an internal Azure AI engineering capability in the UK. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Generative AI solutions and enterprise integration.

You will set standards, guide architects, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, production-grade AI applications that scale across the organisation.