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Build & Integrate
Implement RAG pipelines, prompt templates, and agentic workflows, and wire them into application logic that connects with the department’s legacy and multi-cloud systems.
Prompt Engineering & Evaluation
Design, test, and iterate on prompts and retrieval strategies; run structured evaluations to track answer quality, retrieval accuracy, and hallucination rate over time.
Responsible AI in Practice
Implement the specific guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints defined by the leads - this is an execution role, not a policy-setting one.
Requirements
- Practical experience building applications using LLMs or other foundation models, via API or self-hosted
- Experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding-based retrieval
- Solid general-purpose programming (commonly Python) and API design/integration skills
- Prompt engineering with a systematic, evaluation-driven approach rather than trial and error
- Familiarity with agentic/orchestration frameworks and multi-step AI workflows
- Comfortable working within secure, regulated environments and handling sensitive data appropriately, * Experience delivering digital services within UK central government or the wider public sector
- Familiarity with GOV.UK Service Standard expectations
- Exposure to open-source LLM tooling or communities
- Familiarity with AI/ML tooling on AWS, Azure, or GCP
About the company
Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.
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