Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

WeAreTechWomen; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Collaborative environment

Cutting-edge AI projects

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Core Business Services. This hands-on role combines technical delivery with leadership, guiding junior staff and coordinating across onshore/offshore teams.

You will design and build AI agents and automation tools, oversee quality, and shape new work with a focus on governance, security, and scalable cloud-native solutions. Requires a Master’s in CS/Data Science/AI and extensive Python/TypeScript, Power Platform, and API

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience as an AI developer or engineer with a strong portfolio of delivered projects.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of Git and version control.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
• Familiarity with data manipulation and analysis tools such as Pandas, NumPy, and SQL.
• Experience across the Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages and Dataverse, with solution management and ALM.
• Experience building and orchestrating LLM agents, including prompt design, grounding, retrieval, and evaluating outputs.
• Experienced with cloud solutions and cost awareness.
• Experience integrating AI tools with enterprise systems via APIs (Graph, REST, SQL, SharePoint) and enterprise guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agents and automation tools to solve complex problems and improve business processes.
• Design AI solutions across multiple projects and portfolios, including orchestration layers and scalable, reusable solutions.
• Decide between, and build with, both low-code and pro-code approaches.
• Design cloud native solutions as the platform for AI solutions, and integrate new AI offerings.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of projects and of the work of others, alongside building yourself.
• Set engineering standards and review the code and solutions produced by the team.
• Shape and scope new demand as it comes in, translating business problems into deliverable technical scope with an assessment of effort and feasibility.
• Own governance and set-up end to end, including AI risk assessment, information security, data loss prevention, change advisory board, environments and licensing, taking products all the way through to live release.
• Manage senior stakeholders, including demonstrating, defending and shaping the work with partners and business leadership.
• Support and mentor junior members of the team, and coordinate delivery across onshore and offshore resources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI and apply them to projects.
• Document code, processes and methodologies to ensure maintainability and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Git

Algorithms

Data structures

Software design

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

Power Platform

LLM agents

Cloud solutions

API integration

Guardrails

Education

Master's degree

AI developer experience

Portfolio of projects

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Copilot Studio

SharePoint

Dataverse

Graph API

REST

Power Apps

Power Automate

Power Pages

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Core Business Services. This hands-on role combines technical delivery with leadership, guiding junior staff and coordinating across onshore/offshore teams.

You will design and build AI agents and automation tools, oversee quality, and shape new work with a focus on governance, security, and scalable cloud-native solutions. Requires a Master’s in CS/Data Science/AI and extensive Python/TypeScript, Power Platform, and API