Senior Python AI Lead Engineer - Production-Grade AI

CommuniTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Hybrid work 3 days/week

Benefits

Job summary

Top Tier Asset Management House in London seeks a Senior Python AI Software Engineer to lead production-grade AI systems within modern cloud-native architectures. You will guide technical direction, shape AI products, and mentor engineers across global teams.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on reusable AI capabilities, security, observability, and scalability, delivering real business impact while collaborating with product owners and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on cloud-native architecture using AWS and containerized microservices.
• Experience leading AI-enabled systems in production or near-production.
• Ability to design, communicate, and mentor on complex AI/engineering topics.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, deployment, and evolution of production-grade AI agents.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across squads.
• Drive Build-Operate-Transfer of AI products to production.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and partners to deliver scalable AI solutions.
• Develop reusable AI capabilities and platform components.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

AI engineering patterns

Agent orchestration

Retrieval-based systems

Mentoring engineers

Strong communication

Problem solving

System design

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Top Tier Asset Management House in London seeks a Senior Python AI Software Engineer to lead production-grade AI systems within modern cloud-native architectures. You will guide technical direction, shape AI products, and mentor engineers across global teams.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on reusable AI capabilities, security, observability, and scalability, delivering real business impact while collaborating with product owners and stakeholders.