Lead AI Engineering & MLOps for Enterprise AI

Centrica; Windsor; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrica is seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead the development and delivery of enterprise AI solutions, guiding a team of AI Engineers in design, deployment, and operation of scalable AI and LLM-powered applications.

Reporting to the Director of AI & Data Science, you will shape AI engineering capabilities, drive best-practice in software engineering and MLOps, and ensure secure, reliable production systems aligned with business priorities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in AI Engineering, ML, or software development with production AI solutions.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
• Hands-on design, build, and deployment of LLM-powered solutions at enterprise scale.
• Strong Python, ML frameworks, and cloud platform skills.
• Understanding of MLOps, model lifecycle, deployment automation, and monitoring.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the AI engineering team with strong software engineering, MLOps, and Responsible AI standards.
• Lead design, development, and deployment of AI applications including LLM-powered solutions with hands-on contribution.
• Support data scientists with robust deployment, monitoring, and productionisation of AI solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into practical AI outcomes.
• Ensure quality, security, reliability, and continuous improvement in delivery.
• Mentor AI engineers and foster collaboration, learning, and growth.
• Stay ahead of AI, MLOps, and engineering practices to keep the team at the forefront.

Skills

Python development

LLM tooling

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Azure

Databricks

CI/CD

DevOps

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

Job description

Centrica is seeking an AI Engineering Manager to lead the development and delivery of enterprise AI solutions, guiding a team of AI Engineers in design, deployment, and operation of scalable AI and LLM-powered applications.

Reporting to the Director of AI & Data Science, you will shape AI engineering capabilities, drive best-practice in software engineering and MLOps, and ensure secure, reliable production systems aligned with business priorities.