Technical Lead – AI

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
• We're a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it's deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we'll invest in you.

• Provide technical leadership and architecture for Generative and Agentic AI initiatives
• Design end-to-end AI system architectures covering orchestration, data, APIs, security, and deployment
• Build LLM-based solutions using RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, function calling, and agentic workflows
• Ensure production readiness including CI/CD, testing, observability, scalability, security, and cost optimization
• Mentor AI engineers and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders

• Design and build LLM-based systems using techniques such as:
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Embeddings and vector search
• Prompt engineering and prompt optimization
• Function calling and tool usage
• Agentic and multi-agent workflows
• Build AI systems that integrate LLMs with APIs, data platforms, enterprise applications, and workflow engines
• Apply modern AI evaluation approaches including automated testing, benchmarking, and qualitative + quantitative LLM evaluation

• · Apply strong software engineering and distributed systems principles to AI development
• · Design for observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerts, and model performance monitoring
• · Diagnose and resolve production issues related to latency, reliability, data quality, and model behavior
• · Balance innovation speed with operational excellence and long-term maintainability

• · Work closely with business stakeholders to translate real-world problems into AI-driven solutions
• · Partner with AI engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to scale delivery
• · Mentor and coach engineers on Generative AI, Agentic AI, and cloud-native best practices
• · Support low-code and Copilot/Flow-style solutions where appropriate, while ensuring architectural integrity

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering

• Python
• REST APIs
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing
• Distributed systems design
• Generative & Agentic AI
• Generative AI and LLM-based systems
• Agentic and multi-agent workflows
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Embeddings and vector databases
• Prompt engineering and prompt optimization
• LLM evaluation and testing strategies

• Azure OpenAI
• Azure AI Services
• AWS Bedrock
• Amazon SageMaker

• Observability (logs, metrics, tracing, alerts)
• Monitoring and reliability engineering
• Performance tuning and cost optimization

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call-Out' platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

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