Lead AI Engineer, Risk Analytics — Hybrid Role

WTW group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Willis Neuron Technology is seeking a Lead AI Engineer in a senior, highly autonomous role. You will work across risk analytics and insurance domains, delivering AI solutions with modern agent frameworks and production-grade quality. The role isHybrid with regular office travel to London or New York and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Expect to lead by example, review code, and mentor peers while staying at the frontier of AI with hands-on delivery of cutting-edge ML and AI tooling.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on delivery
• Recent hands-on experience (2+ years) building and shipping LLM-based systems
• Strong ability to work with business users and translate concepts to working demos

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI solutions across risk analytics and data domains
• Lead end-to-end delivery with CI/CD and secure production handover
• Design and build agentic analytics using LLMs, RAG and modern agent frameworks
• Mentor colleagues and raise engineering standards
• Stay at the frontier of AI tooling and models

Skills

Python

C# / .NET

TypeScript

Azure

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Insurance domain

Actuarial modelling

Education

Mathematics or Computer Science degree

Postgraduate study valued

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

Willis Neuron Technology is seeking a Lead AI Engineer in a senior, highly autonomous role. You will work across risk analytics and insurance domains, delivering AI solutions with modern agent frameworks and production-grade quality. The role isHybrid with regular office travel to London or New York and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Expect to lead by example, review code, and mentor peers while staying at the frontier of AI with hands-on delivery of cutting-edge ML and AI tooling.