Senior AI Automation Engineer &100,000-&120,000

London Source: WhatJobs

£100,000–£120,000

Senior AI Automation Engineer £100,000-£120,000

London or Birmingham Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office

We're looking for a Senior AI Automation Engineer to join a growing specialist AI engineering capability within a major UK company.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing and delivering production-grade AI applications, intelligent agents and automated workflows within a large, governed enterprise environment.

You'll work across Microsoft Copilot, Python, Power Platform and Azure, combining modern software engineering with AI and workflow automation to build solutions that move beyond proof-of-concept and into real-world production use.

The role

You'll sit at the intersection of AI engineering, software development and intelligent automation, taking ownership of the technical design and delivery of AI-powered solutions used across the business.

Your work will include:

Designing and building AI agents and multi-step automated workflows
Developing production-grade Python services, APIs and automation pipelines
Building solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform
Orchestrating workflows across Copilot Studio, Azure AI / Azure AI Foundry and internal enterprise systems
Integrating AI applications with existing platforms through REST/GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures
Developing reusable connectors, tools, services and agent capabilities
Designing agent orchestration, tool-use and integration patterns
Building CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
Deploying and monitoring AI applications in production
Ensuring solutions are scalable, observable, secure and maintainable
Leading technical design discussions and code reviews
Helping establish engineering standards and supporting the development of more junior engineers

What we're looking for

We're looking for an experienced engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience delivering AI and automation solutions.

Strong commercial Python engineering experience, including APIs, testing, modular architecture and asynchronous processing
Strong experience with Microsoft Copilot / Copilot Studio
Strong experience with Microsoft Power Platform and workflow automation
Experience building and deploying production AI/LLM applications, agents or AI-powered workflows
Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI / AI Foundry or comparable AI platforms
Understanding of agentic AI patterns, orchestration, tool use, prompt design and LLM limitations
Strong API and systems integration experience, including REST and/or GraphQL
Experience designing reusable services, connectors and integration components
Microsoft Azure experience across services such as Functions, containers and AI services
Strong CI/CD, Git and automated testing experience
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Azure Container Apps
An understanding of production monitoring, reliability and observability

Experience with MCP or similar integration patterns, AI governance, prompt evaluation/versioning, event-driven systems or highly regulated environments would be particularly valuable.

Why join?

This is an opportunity to join an organisation making a significant investment in its internal AI engineering capability.

Rather than simply experimenting with generative AI, you'll be responsible for building the engineering foundations that allow Copilot, Python, Power Platform and Azure AI solutions to operate reliably at enterprise scale.

You'll have the opportunity to influence architecture and engineering standards while remaining hands-on with the technology and seeing the systems you build adopted directly by users.