Senior AI Delivery Lead: LLMs, Azure AI & Full-Stack

Microsoft; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing support

Health plans

Volunteering days

Life assurance

EV and tech schemes

Onsite gyms (where available)

Retail discounts

Job summary

Microsoft seeks a Senior AI Developer to lead the design, development and deployment of production-grade AI-enabled applications. You will build features with LLMs, agentic workflows, and MCP integrations, collaborating with customers to translate requirements into scalable software.

You will drive reusable components, mentor teammates, and shape AI delivery patterns across the organisation while leveraging Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services and ML services in a hybrid Reading-based setup.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering production software in client-facing environments.
• Strong full-stack development with React/Node.js and C#/Python.
• Experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and RAG or agentic AI development.
• Hands-on with Azure cloud services and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and deployment of AI-integrated applications.
• Work directly with customers to shape requirements and translate them into working software.
• Provide technical leadership, ensuring engineering rigour and best practices.
• Prototype and deliver PoCs to support pre-sales and proposals.

Skills

React/Node.js

C#/.NET

Python/FastAPI

LLM integration

Azure cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Client-facing

Mentoring

Tools

Azure OpenAI

GitHub Copilot

Vector databases

Cognitive Services

Job description

Microsoft seeks a Senior AI Developer to lead the design, development and deployment of production-grade AI-enabled applications. You will build features with LLMs, agentic workflows, and MCP integrations, collaborating with customers to translate requirements into scalable software.

You will drive reusable components, mentor teammates, and shape AI delivery patterns across the organisation while leveraging Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services and ML services in a hybrid Reading-based setup.