AI Engineer VP

**Join us as a AI Engineer :** * Build and lead a team that ships production generative and agentic AI systems used by millions of customers and colleagues — solving problems that don't yet have a playbook * Combine strong people leadership with deep, hands-on technical expertise, staying close to the detail while building a high-performing, engaged, and continuously improving team * Have the autonomy to choose the right tools, frontier models, and architectures for the job, and the scale to see your work make a real-world impact * We are offering this role at vice president level What you'll do * Lead and line-manage a team of AI engineers: setting objectives, managing performance, coaching and developing careers, and building an inclusive, high-trust culture * Own the technical vision and roadmap for the team's AI systems, and make the architectural decisions that shape how we build, evaluate, and safely operate LLM-powered applications * Stay hands-on, contributing to design, code, and reviews, and setting the bar for engineering quality across multi-agent workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and LLM integrations * Design agent-to-agent communication frameworks, including structured messaging, shared state, coordination protocols, and failure handling * Architect and optimise RAG pipelines, covering document chunking, embedding generation, vector storage, retrieval evaluation, ranking, and freshness handling * Design and own the data pipelines that feed AI systems — ingestion, transformation, and feature/embedding preparation — built for reliability, data quality, and lineage * Build and operate orchestrated, scheduled workflows using tools such as Apache Airflow, with monitoring, retries, and clear failure handling * Leverage cloud data platforms such as Snowflake (alongside AWS data services) for scalable storage, transformation, and analytics that underpin AI and ML workloads * Establish guardrails, observability, and safety mechanisms across the team's systems, including logging, tracing, evaluations, fallback logic, and mitigation of prompt injection and data-exfiltration risks. * Drive optimisation for low latency, reliability, throughput, and cost across production AI workloads on AWS. * Integrate and orchestrate a range of frontier LLM providers, balancing capability, cost, latency, and risk, and designing for portability across models and providers * Partner with senior stakeholders across product, data science, platform engineering, architecture, and risk and compliance to align delivery with business priorities and financial-services obligations * Champion robust engineering practices, including testing, version control, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, and represent the team in governance, model-risk, and architectural forums The skills you'll need ---------------------- * Deep, hands-on experience designing and shipping production AI/ML or generative AI systems at scale — in big tech, a high-growth startup, a regulated industry, or anywhere the stakes and complexity were real * Strong proficiency in Python, with an async-first approach to building agent workflows and API integrations * Practical experience integrating frontier LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and others  and agent frameworks such as LangGraph or LangChain * Solid understanding of RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector stores * Strong data engineering skills: designing robust data pipelines, with hands-on experience of workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow * Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, including SQL, data modelling, and building performant, cost-aware transformations * Proven experience building and operating cloud-native AI services on AWS (e.g. Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, ECS/EKS, Lambda), using Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code * Experience implementing AI guardrails, observability, evaluation, and safety constraints for production systems * A strong grasp of NLP and transformer-based models, with sound ML and statistics fundamentals * A pragmatic approach to data security, model risk, and responsible AI — or the curiosity and rigour to pick it up quickly Hours 45 **Job Posting Closing Date:** 01/08/2026