Senior AI Engineering Lead — FinTech Automation

Follow the Gradient; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Private medical care

Flexible benefits

25 days paid annual leave

Employee sample sales

Job summary

ASOS seeks a Senior Engineering Lead to build and lead its AI engineering team for FinTech and Fashion Tech. You will line-manage AI engineers, write code when needed, and own end-to-end delivery of production AI solutions that automate complex finance and commerce processes.

You’ll work with central AI policy, drive architectural standards, and ensure scalable, secure implementations while mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, Buying and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading AI engineering teams that ship production-grade solutions.
• Strong track record delivering end-to-end AI projects in finance and retail tech.
• Ability to balance hands-on coding with strategic leadership and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an AI engineering team delivering agentic AI and automation.
• Own technical direction, standards, and cost-aware architecture choices.
• Collaborate with central AI team and finance/commerce stakeholders to align goals.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Line management

Technical direction

Delivery ownership

LLM / agent frameworks

Azure / cloud

Python / C#/.NET

APIs & services

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Azure AI Foundry

LangChain / LangGraph

CI/CD tooling

Databricks / Microsoft Fabric

Job description

ASOS seeks a Senior Engineering Lead to build and lead its AI engineering team for FinTech and Fashion Tech. You will line-manage AI engineers, write code when needed, and own end-to-end delivery of production AI solutions that automate complex finance and commerce processes.

You’ll work with central AI policy, drive architectural standards, and ensure scalable, secure implementations while mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, Buying and