Senior AI Engineer

Albany Beck is a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.

Senior AI Engineer

This is an opportunity to join one of our Payments clients high-profile AI team, building intelligent products and agentic capabilities across a global digital platform. This is a hands-on role responsible for taking AI solutions from concept through to production, owning the full development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy production-grade AI applications.
• Develop solutions using LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, tool calling and API integrations.
• Build across the full stack, including backend services, APIs, data models, cloud infrastructure and user interfaces.
• Evaluate and optimise AI performance through testing, monitoring and metrics.
• Drive technical decisions around model selection, scalability, reliability and cost.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and platform teams to deliver impactful solutions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards and best practices.

Required Experience

• 5+ years' software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Proven experience building and deploying AI-powered applications.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, RAG, vector search, prompt engineering and agentic systems.
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, data modelling and system observability.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and take ownership of delivery.