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# Lead Engineer - Artificial Intelligence Adoption & Business Leverage

- **Company:** Specialist Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Microsoft Azure, Azure Machine Learning, Generative AI, Build Management
- **Published:** July 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=379a93b3a9bb8ee6

## About the Role

You'll be an AI expert who can combine technical credibility with strategic thinking.

 * Proven experience delivering AI and automation solutions into production

 * You'll have built agents, automations, retrieval systems, evaluations.

 * Command of the agentic automation tooling Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Power Platform or equivalent technologies

 * Experience creating AI agents, intelligent workflows and generative AI solutions

 * Strong understanding of AI governance, risk and regulatory considerations

 * Commercial awareness with a focus on measurable outcomes and return on investment

 * Confidence partnering with executive stakeholders and influencing decision-making

## Description

Most organisations are experimenting with AI.

We're looking for someone to help reshape how an entire business operates because of it.

Reporting directly to the CTO and working closely with senior executives across the group, you'll own SRG's AI Adoption & Business Leverage pillar. Your mission is simple: identify where AI can create meaningful value, implement it at scale and help shape the future operating model of the business.

This is one of the most exciting AI opportunities in the market today. It combines strategy, innovation and hands-on delivery in equal measure. You'll influence executive thinking, build production-ready solutions and play a central role in determining how SRG evolves over the next decade.

You'll bridge the gap between emerging technology and commercial outcomes, turning AI from a promising capability into a genuine competitive advantage for the business.

What you'll be doing

 * Work directly with the CCO, CTO and other executives to shape and sequence the move to an AI-native model.

 * Delivering AI solutions and agentic automation that create measurable business value

 * Putting large language models and agentic automation to work on real business processes, from first use case through to production.

 * Design and build the multi-step, tool-using automations that carry a process end to end, on Copilot Studio, the Power Platform and Azure AI services

 * Identifying high-impact opportunities to improve productivity and service delivery

 * Establishing governance and responsible AI controls across the organisation

 * Supporting change, enablement and AI capability development across SRG


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