Senior AI Engineer: Lead Production AI & Platforms

Digital Futures; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Hybrid work model

Pension contributions

Wellbeing budget

Employee discounts platform

Impacting growth

Job summary

Digital Futures is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, build and operation of production-grade AI solutions for clients. You will guide AI and data engineers, shaping standards for AI delivery across cloud platforms and data environments.

We value ownership, collaboration with stakeholders, and a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to scalable AI. The role combines hands-on leadership with setting engineering direction in a rapidly growing, mission-led tech services company.

Qualifications

• Delivery of AI/ML or data-intensive systems into production in a consulting, product or enterprise environment.
• Strong software engineering background with modern development practices (CI/CD, testing, DevOps, Git workflows).
• Hands-on experience with major cloud and data platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake) and AI/ML services.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end engineering of AI products and platforms from discovery through production and optimization.
• Define and own engineering standards for AI services, APIs, data pipelines and MLOps across cloud environments.
• Provide hands-on technical direction to AI Engineers, ML Engineers and Data Engineers, including code reviews and solution design.

Skills

Python/Java

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

AI/ML systems

Team leadership

Security & privacy

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Digital Futures is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the design, build and operation of production-grade AI solutions for clients. You will guide AI and data engineers, shaping standards for AI delivery across cloud platforms and data environments.

We value ownership, collaboration with stakeholders, and a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to scalable AI. The role combines hands-on leadership with setting engineering direction in a rapidly growing, mission-led tech services company.