William Grant & Sons
AI and Automation Engineer
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As an AI & Automation Engineer
Play a key role in shaping how technology drives William Grant & Sons forward. You'll work with a dedicated team to design, build, and deploy secure AI and automation solutions that streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and create scalable digital capabilities. Working closely with architects, delivery teams, and business stakeholders, you'll help deliver innovative solutions that generate real business value while supporting our AI-first and automation strategy.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote our employees' financial wellbeing.
- Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
- Generous holiday entitlement with an opportunity to 'buy' or'sell' some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Opportunity to join a defined contribution pension plan with company contributions based on employee contributions.
- Employee Assistance Programme offering support on medical, financial, legal, home, and family issues.
- Life Assurance cover, a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation to enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Cycle to Work scheme allowing bike hire with savings and cost spreading.
- Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for charities.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
Main Responsibilities
Role
- Design, build, and deploy AI and automation solutions that streamline processes and reduce manual effort.
- Develop scalable workflows using cloud services, APIs, and enterprise platforms.
- Integrate AI capabilities into business applications to improve decision-making and user experiences.
- Translate business needs into secure, scalable, AI-first solutions.
- Build and maintain automation and data pipelines across cloud and on-premise environments.
- Ensure solutions meet security, governance, and compliance standards.
- Optimise performance, reliability, and cost efficiency through continuous improvement.
- Implement CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices to support efficient deployments.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance solutions to maximise business value.
- Contribute to technical standards, architecture, and the adoption of emerging AI and automation technologies.
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Our Ideal Candidate
We're looking for someone with experience delivering AI and automation solutions using the Microsoft ecosystem, who can partner effectively with project teams to turn ideas into scalable business outcomes.
- Experience with Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio and Copilot Work, as well as Power Apps, and automation technologies is desirable.
- Knowledge of AI, system integrations, APIs, and cloud-based solutions.
- Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to work closely with project teams and stakeholders to deliver business-focused solutions.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and continuous improvement mindset.
- Understanding of security, governance, and compliance best practices.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
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William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
This vacancy is being advertised directly by William Grant & Sons. Unauthorised copying, reposting, or distribution of this advert by job boards, aggregators, or recruitment agencies is not permitted without prior written approval.
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