Senior AI Platform Engineer: Production AI & Data Pipelines

axiscapital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AXIS Capital in London seeks a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native AI workloads on Azure and Databricks, delivering secure and reusable capabilities across underwriting, claims, and operations.

You will own CI/CD for AI/data workloads, implement Terraform-based IaC, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance the platform strategy and production readiness.

Qualifications

• Strong production-grade Python engineering experience.
• Experience with PySpark or large-scale data processing.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Experience deploying workloads on Azure including identity, access control, networking and secure resource configuration.
• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience building scalable AI services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade AI services, data pipelines, and platform capabilities on Azure and Databricks.
• Develop LLM-powered and agentic workflows for automation and decision support.
• Expose AI capabilities via secure APIs and backend services (e.g., FastAPI).
• Own CI/CD delivery pipelines for AI and data workloads.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Azure tooling.
• Build and manage Databricks jobs, workflows, and data pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting with observability tools.
• Support production AI systems including incident response and runbooks.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform strategy.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices.

Skills

Python engineering

PySpark

CI/CD pipelines

Azure deployments

Infrastructure-as-code

Databricks

LLM workflows

AI platforms

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Databricks

OpenTelemetry

Job description

AXIS Capital in London seeks a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native AI workloads on Azure and Databricks, delivering secure and reusable capabilities across underwriting, claims, and operations.

You will own CI/CD for AI/data workloads, implement Terraform-based IaC, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance the platform strategy and production readiness.