Lead Dev Engineer - AI Platform Architect

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking a senior or lead engineer to join the engineering function that develops, operates and improves AI-enabled products and services in the UK. You will move between teams, shaping architecture and writing code, and mentor others while delivering robust software.

You will collaborate with product delivery, design scalable solutions, implement automated testing, CI/CD, and maintainable code, while ensuring security and compliance in production.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical partner to product delivery teams, shaping architecture and options.
• Experience designing AI-enabled development and scalable software solutions.
• Ability to explain complex concepts to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams, embedding where useful to drive architecture decisions.
• Identify opportunities to standardise and consolidate reusable components/services.
• Lead evolution of SDLC practices for AI-enabled development and maintain quality.
• Champion automated testing, CI/CD, coding standards and observability.
• Contribute to design/development of shared packages and services.
• Ensure security, compliance, operability and production support across solutions.
• Mentor developers and act as a technical authority translating business needs to solutions.

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure architecture

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

SDLC optimization

Problem solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

CosmosDB

Azure SQL

App Services

Functions

Table/Queue/Blob Storage

Event Grid

Application Insights

Job description

Referment is seeking a senior or lead engineer to join the engineering function that develops, operates and improves AI-enabled products and services in the UK. You will move between teams, shaping architecture and writing code, and mentor others while delivering robust software.

You will collaborate with product delivery, design scalable solutions, implement automated testing, CI/CD, and maintainable code, while ensuring security and compliance in production.