Lead Enterprise AI Engineer

Location Manchester
Discipline: Engineering, Executive Search, IT & Communications
Salary: £Up to £65,000 | 40 hours per week | Predominantly home-based (UK) with occasional site travel
Contact email: jobs@recruitmeuk.com
Published: about 13 hours ago

​Lead Enterprise AI Engineer
Salary: Up to £65,000 | 40 hours per week | Predominantly home-based (UK) with occasional site travel

We are recruiting on behalf of a highly established UK energy infrastructure organisation that is making significant long-term investment in data, analytics and artificial intelligence to drive innovation across its national operations.

The role sits within a central Data, Analytics & AI function and will play a pivotal part in turning business challenges into production-ready AI tools used across finance, operations and commercial teams.

The Opportunity

As Lead Enterprise AI Engineer, you will be responsible for operationalising the organisation’s AI strategy – taking use cases from concept through to live deployment.

Your core focus will be on building intelligent agents and conversational AI solutions using Microsoft Copilot technologies and Databricks, with a particular emphasis on semantic modelling and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build and deploy AI agents and copilots using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform.

  • Develop custom RAG solutions within Databricks to allow LLMs to reason over proprietary business data.

  • Integrate AI tools with enterprise platforms such as Dynamics 365, SharePoint and operational systems.

  • Own and curate Databricks Genie semantic layers, translating complex schemas into business-friendly models.

  • Define and govern metrics, dimensions and business logic within Unity Catalog.

  • Partner with stakeholders across finance, operations and commercial functions to prototype and deliver AI use cases.

  • Implement AI monitoring frameworks covering cost, performance, latency and output quality.

  • Ensure strong data governance, security and responsible AI practices across all solutions.

  • Act as a technical ambassador for AI internally, helping non-technical teams adopt and use new tools effectively.

  • Mentor junior analysts and engineers within the wider data function.

What We’re Looking For

This role will suit someone who is both highly technical and highly practical – someone who enjoys solving real business problems with modern AI tooling.

You’ll ideally bring:

  • Strong hands-on experience within the Microsoft/Azure ecosystem (Copilot Studio, Fabric, Power Platform).

  • Commercial experience with Databricks (SQL, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI, Genie).

  • Practical experience with LLMs, prompt engineering and RAG architectures.

  • Advanced Python and SQL skills for data manipulation and API integration.

  • Experience integrating systems using REST APIs.

  • A strong understanding of semantic modelling and analytics data design.

  • The ability to communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Salary & Package

  • Salary up to £65,000.

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 30 with service).

  • Competitive pension scheme.

  • Life assurance (4x salary).

  • Employee participation and long-term incentive schemes.

  • Comprehensive wellbeing, health and development benefits.