Senior AI Developer
18 days ago
Reading
Senior AI Developer \n\n • Annual Salary: Competitive\n, • Location: Reading, Berkshire (with hybrid options)\n, • Job Type: Full-time\n\n A new permanent opportunity has become available for a Senior AI Developer to join a leading technology partner. This role is ideal for an experienced, hands-on full stack developer who is passionate about AI-powered software development. \n You will be instrumental in designing and delivering production-grade solutions that integrate large language models, agentic systems, and Azure AI services into real-world applications. \n Day-to-day of the role: \n\n • Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-integrated solutions for client engagements using modern full-stack technologies.\n, • Integrate Azure AI services into production applications and architect LLM-powered features and agentic workflows.\n, • Work directly with clients to understand requirements, shape solutions, and translate them into working software.\n, • Provide technical leadership across engagements, ensuring high standards of code quality and engineering rigour.\n, • Contribute to technical research, prototyping, and proof-of-concept development to support client proposals and win new work.\n, • Define and prove a mature, repeatable pattern for delivering AI solutions that can be scaled across the team.\n, • Establish reusable tools, accelerators, and components to enhance the speed and quality of AI delivery.\n, • Explore and evaluate emerging AI technologies and development approaches, integrating the best into practice.\n, • Mentor and upskill other developers, building AI delivery capability as the model transitions into the Delivery team.\n\n Required Skills & Qualifications: \n\n • Extensive full-stack development experience in React/Node.js, .NET/C#, Python/Fast API. \n, • Proven track record of delivering production software on client-facing projects, ideally within a consultancy or professional services environment.\n, • Experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or agentic AI development at scale.\n, • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor.\n, • Strong experience with Azure cloud services and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).\n, • Demonstrable experience integrating LLMs and building AI-powered features in real-world applications.\n, • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.\n, • Comfortable working autonomously and shaping ambiguity into repeatable, scalable delivery.\n\n Benefits: \n\n • Industry-leading training and development opportunities.\n, • 23-days holiday allowance, increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays, an extra day off on your birthday, and the option to buy more.\n, • Company pension scheme.\n, • 2 paid leave days per year to volunteer and support your local community.\n, • Health cash plan with free access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).\n, • Life assurance.\n, • Cycle to work scheme, electric vehicle scheme, home and tech scheme, and retail discounts.\n, • Free on-site gym at our Manchester and Leeds locations.\n, • Long service recognition and social events such as Summer BBQ and Christmas party.\n\n To apply for the Senior AI Developer position, please submit your CV to be immediately considered.