Senior AI Developer

Senior AI Developer

• Annual Salary: Competitive
• Location: Reading, Berkshire (with hybrid options)
• Job Type: Full-time

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.

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.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-integrated solutions for client engagements using modern full-stack technologies.
• Integrate Azure AI services into production applications and architect LLM-powered features and agentic workflows.
• Work directly with clients to understand requirements, shape solutions, and translate them into working software.
• Provide technical leadership across engagements, ensuring high standards of code quality and engineering rigour.
• Contribute to technical research, prototyping, and proof-of-concept development to support client proposals and win new work.
• Define and prove a mature, repeatable pattern for delivering AI solutions that can be scaled across the team.
• Establish reusable tools, accelerators, and components to enhance the speed and quality of AI delivery.
• Explore and evaluate emerging AI technologies and development approaches, integrating the best into practice.
• Mentor and upskill other developers, building AI delivery capability as the model transitions into the Delivery team.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Extensive full-stack development experience in React/Node.js, .NET/C#, Python/Fast API.
• Proven track record of delivering production software on client-facing projects, ideally within a consultancy or professional services environment.
• Experience with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or agentic AI development at scale.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
• Demonstrable experience integrating LLMs and building AI-powered features in real-world applications.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working autonomously and shaping ambiguity into repeatable, scalable delivery.

Benefits:

• Industry-leading training and development opportunities.
• 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.
• Company pension scheme.
• 2 paid leave days per year to volunteer and support your local community.
• Health cash plan with free access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work scheme, electric vehicle scheme, home and tech scheme, and retail discounts.
• Free on-site gym at our Manchester and Leeds locations.
• Long service recognition and social events such as Summer BBQ and Christmas party.

To apply for the Senior AI Developer position, please submit your CV to be immediately considered.