Lead AI Labs Software Engineer Python Developer Finance London

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (3 days/wk)

Annual bonus 25%

Pension 10%

Job summary

eFinancialCareers seeks a Lead AI Labs Software Engineer to head UK AI labs, directing a small team and aligning with business stakeholders. You will drive Agentic AI projects from inception through production, coordinating with a manager and two seniors while refining architecture and deployment practices.

In this role you will showcase solutions to clients, partner with finance teams, and leverage AWS, LangChain, LangGraph, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience as a Python Software Engineer/Programmer/Developer.
• Leadership experience for the delivery of projects from inception to production.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Advanced design and architecture ability.
• Creating Agentic AI solutions, collaborating with business stakeholders to understand their needs.
• Experience taking Agentic AI solutions into production.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI labs for the UK office and collaborate with a manager and two seniors.
• Deliver Agentic AI solutions from inception to production within multi-team environments.
• Showcase team solutions to clients and explore partnerships.
• Engage with AWS, LangChain/LangGraph and related tools to architect scalable AI systems.
• Participate in interviews and contribute to architectural decisions.

Skills

Python

Leadership

Agentic AI

Architecture design

Stakeholder collaboration

Production deployment

Tools

AWS

LangChain

LangGraph

Azure

GCP

Job description

Lead AI Labs Software Engineer (Programmer Software Engineer Developer Python Amazon Web Services AWS Strands Agents AI LangChain LangGraph CrewAI Google AutoGen Pydantic AI Bedrock AgentCore ADK Azure GCP Cloud Asset Manager) required by our client in finance in London.

You MUST have the following:

• Advanced experience as a Python Software Engineer/Programmer/Developer
• Leadership experience for the delivery of projects from beginning to end- inception to production
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Advanced design and architecture ability
• Creating Agentic AI solutions, collaborating with business stakeholders to understand their needs
• Experience taking Agentic AI solutions into production

The following is DESIRABLE, not essential:

• AWS
• AWS Strands Agents
• LangChain and LangGraph
• Finance

Role: Lead AI Labs Software Engineer (Programmer Software Engineer Developer Python Amazon Web Services AWS Strands Agents AI LangChain LangGraph CrewAI Google AutoGen Pydantic AI Bedrock AgentCore ADK Azure GCP Cloud Asset Manager) required by our client in finance in London. You will be a lead engineer, working with a manager and two seniors to run the AI labs for the company's UK office. The company has an existing list of UK requirements from its investment, sales and marketing departments that need to be fulfilled with Agentic AI solutions. In the next 6 months, the team is expected to grow out further with another lead and two more seniors, distributing the departments between the teams.

You will have experience in building Agentic AI solutions and taking them to production. In the role, you will be working with AWS, AWS Strands Agents, LangChain and LangGraph, although you do not need experience of these particular tools. Nor do you need experience in finance. The timeframes for delivering these solutions in the role will be about 3 months at a time. Once in production, the solutions will be transferred to the departmental tech teams.

As many of the company's clients are going through their own AI journeys, from time to time, you will also showcase the team's solutions to clients. This may also lead to some partnerships with clients to build solutions.

Your background will be as a Python Developer. The interview process will include a Python pair-programming round and an architectural interview.

Hybrid working is 3 days/week in the office. Hours are 9am-5pm.

Salary: £150k - £180k + 25% Bonus + 10% Pension