Berry Bros. & Rudd
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Job Title: AI Lead Engineer
Reporting To: Senior Developer
Direct Reports: AI Ops Engineer
Location: Basingstoke or London
Hybrid working available (a minimum of 3 days working from the office, 2 days working from home)
The job in a nutshell
Owns the agentic platform end-to-end from a technical and delivery perspective - architecture, guardrails, working with business leads on design and costs and also with vendors. Sits at the top of the Central/Enabling team, with AI Ops Engineer reporting into it.
Who you will work with
Internal: AI Ops Engineer; Solutions Architect; Head of Cyber Security, Application Support, Infrastructure and Data teams; AI Business Owner; process area leads (Buying & Order Planning Lead, Offers Lead, Customer Contact Lead) as the agent-owning counterparts across the business
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External: Agentic platform vendors; Suppliers & SaaS Providers
3rd party business application partners
What you will do
- Owns platform architecture and guardrails
- Owns the agentic platform end-to-end including cost and vendor management
- Delivers new and enhanced capabilities in conjunction with the AI Business Owners
- Sets the governance standards that AI Ops Engineer monitors against.
- Provides the technical input into the AI Roadmap
What you will bring to the role
Experience / Achievements
- Demonstrable experience in AI/ML engineering
- Proven experience in prompt engineering and guardrails design
- Experience with API integration and system architecture
- Experience in agent monitoring and performance management at platform level
- Experience of enterprise platform governance
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Your Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours
- Strong platform governance judgement
- [Desirable] Experience in Lyzr and/or Microsoft Foundry platform
- [Desirable] LLM platform experience
- [Desirable] Cloud infrastructure
- [Desirable] Python / scripting
- [Desirable] Data pipeline architecture
We support our colleagues with a wide range of benefits:
- You will start with 24 days' holiday, and 3 additional days over the Christmas period and 1 Personal Day
- Private Medical cover & Health plan
- Life Insurance
- Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Generous Employee discount (up to 40% off products)
- And many more.
Closing date: 22nd September 2026
N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.
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