Lead AI Engineer

Job Title: Lead AI Engineer

Target Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: £100,000 - £110,000 Dependent on Experience

Location: Reigate, Manchester or Glasgow - Hybrid

Closing Date for applications: Friday 13th February

Lead AI Engineer: Step into a role where your work shapes the future of insurance. At Ageas/esure, we're building on an exciting foundation of 20 live AI use cases already empowering over 900 frontline colleagues - and we're just getting started!

As a Lead AI Engineer, you'll take a central role in driving and delivering the next generation of AI-powered solutions across our business. You'll lead a team of AI Engineers of all levels, setting technical direction, owning end-to-end project delivery and ensuring our solutions generate real, measurable impact. Alongside your hands-on technical work, you'll mentor and develop the team, guide requirement-gathering with stakeholders, and play a key part in defining our future AI strategy.

If you're motivated by technical leadership, large-scale impact and building high-performing AI capability, this is a chance to truly shape our AI future

• Support and develop a small team, helping them grow and progress.
• Work with leaders to set and improve engineering and R&D standards.
• Shape the AI roadmap across both use cases and technology.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to understand processes and data, identifying high-value GenAI opportunities.
• Drive scalable AI delivery as part of the DataScience & AI team, contributing to innovation across the enterprise.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring, supporting the growth of a high-performing team.
• Proven experience delivering AI into production, solving real commercial problems and measuring impact.
• A self-starter with a track record of taking research and models through to production to drive tangible business and customer value.
• Comfortable working both autonomously and collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• Strong experience with advanced NLP, including developing models, prompt engineering and fine-tuning LLMs in a commercial setting.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, contributing to Ageas being recognised as a Top Employer in the UK.

• Flexible Working: Smart Working within the UK and roles that include part-time/job-share options; minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) with the ability to buy and sell days.
• Health: Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Mindfulness.
• Wealth: 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual BonusSchemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Well-being at work: Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Family: Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
• Other: Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover, tech deals on gadgets, car salary exchange, cycle scheme, vehicle breakdown cover, return-to-work programme after maternity leave.

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, serving over four million customers. We are committed to inclusive recruitment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We are signatories of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, and a Disability Confident Leader. We guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.

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