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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Implementation Delivery Lead - **Company:** Mott MacDonald - **Location:** Manchester, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, System Configuration, DevOps, Github, Machine Learning, Cloud Services, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft SharePoint, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Esri GIS (Software), Agentic-AI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Autodesk Autocad - **Published:** November 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9044f4b20e45f0fd ## About the Role * Proven experience leading digital or innovation projects and programmes, including successful transition from concept or pilot to adoption and readiness for scaling. * Strong hands-on project experience delivering technical design or project management. * Experience developing and implementing digital solutions centred on or enabled by automation and Copilot AI agents, together with practical experience personally building, configuring, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting AI agents. * Working knowledge of common platforms for automation and AI Agent delivery, with the judgement to select and combine them appropriately. * Technical fluency across core automation, Co-pilot AI, Agent, data and software delivery concepts, including and implementation and adoption challenges. * Understanding of applied AI and automation capabilities and the controls needed to use them responsibly. * Evidence of turning prototypes into robust and repeatable solutions for use by project teams. * Working knowledge of addressing related challenges around data, intellectual-property, responsible-AI, contractual and commercial considerations, and ability to work with in partnership with relevant specialists. * Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams that include technical, analytical, engineering, domain, and business contributors. * Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical subjects plainly, facilitate decisions and constructively challenge assumptions. * Line-management and mentoring experience, with a record of developing delivery professionals and building high-performing teams. * A practical, collaborative, and outcomes-focused approach, with the willingness to roll up your sleeves and work directly on delivery problems. * Willingness to challenge of best practices, ways of working and enablement; comfortable challenging business processes and supporting collaborative enablement. * Risk focused: proactive, focus on risks for complex initiatives that have dependencies or high uncertainty. Desirable: * Experience developing business cases, governance models, delivery structures, cost and resource models, and deployment or operating blueprints. * Experience with Microsoft's AI and cloud ecosystem, for example Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure AI capabilities, Azure, SharePoint, DevOps, or GitHub. * Experience with agent frameworks, and relevant software development languages. * Knowledge of solution architecture and experience working with enterprise teams to implement secure, resilient, and supportable standards. * Knowledge of Architectural, Engineering and Construction tool ecosystems, such as Autodesk Platform Services, Bentley iTwin or Esri. * Experience in engineering, infrastructure, the built environment, or another asset-intensive sector. * Demonstrable experience leading teams that build automations or AI agents, together with practical experience personally building, configuring, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting them. * Evidence of evolving solutions to supportable and scalable products or services. * A recognised project, programme, product or agile delivery qualification, or equivalent practical experience. We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. ## Description We are looking for anAI Implementation Delivery Lead to join our Digital Value Implementation team in our Central Digital function. This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced engineer or project manager who combines disciplined delivery management, strong technical understanding and practical experience of delivery new engineering capabilities. You will lead multidisciplinary team that creates automations, AI agents, and wider AI-enabled tools for our Major Projects. You will lead and direct implementation of high-value automations, AI solutions, and digital innovations for our prioritised support to Major Projects. These will run from concept and business case through design, build and assurance, to deployment across multiple projects. You will ensure readiness for scaling, adoption planning, and support. A central part of the role is identifying and prioritising the highest value potential opportunities, turning these in to pilots to realise value on select projects and evolve them into robust, repeatable, and scale-ready tools that deliver measurable value. You will be expected to move between governance forums, delivery plans and stakeholder decisions and practical work such as prototyping agents, shaping workflows, connecting data and tools, reviewing technical designs, testing behaviour, and resolving delivery blockers. Key responsibilities and duties include: End-to-end delivery leadership * Shape the opportunity. Work with business users and domain specialists to define the problem, intended outcomes, scope, success measures, constraints, and route to value. * Lead from concept to scale. Own complex digital and innovation projects and programmes through discovery, business case, design, build, test, deployment, adoption, benefits realisation, and readiness for transition into sustainable operations. * Plan and control delivery. Establish integrated delivery plans, milestones, budgets, resource profiles, dependencies, and critical paths; manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and change control. Understand when to prioritise, escalate and have a strong focus on risks as well as unblocking challenges. * Coordinate multidisciplinary teams. Bring together project technical delivery, data science, software development, engineering, design, domain, and operational expertise, ensuring that responsibilities and interfaces are understood. * Assure adoption and service readiness. Plan testing, user acceptance, training, communications, deployment, operational support, monitoring, and handover so that solutions are adopted, and sustained on the projects to meet their objectives. AI agents and technical delivery * Deliver applied AI and automation. Lead initiatives involving team members across advanced analytics, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent automation, translating technical possibilities into practical, safe, and valuable solutions. * Build agents. Guide the team through prototyping, configuration, coding, integration, testing and debugging of Copilot AI agents. Undertake assurance and governance activities to ensure the solutions meet the project needs and our development principles and requirements. * Select the right implementation path. Develop your understanding of our existing toolkit and the strengths, limitations, and trade-offs of different delivery options. Weigh and decide an approach based on speed, control, integration complexity, security, scale, maintainability, cost, and supportability. * Design for responsible use. Ensure embedding of data protection, information security, responsible AI, human oversight, traceability, evaluation, and proportionate controls throughout the delivery lifecycle. Scaling, governance, and commercial value * Enable reuse. Consider and navigate contractual, commercial, and intellectual-property considerations with the relevant specialists so that solutions, components, and learning can be reused across projects. * Ready pilots for scale. Move prototypes beyond proof of concept by establishing repeatable delivery patterns aligned to our scaling mechanisms, coordinate early-stage product management duties, ready the products for scale by our enterprise teams; this includes identifying reusable components, documentation and deployment playbooks. Stakeholder and people leadership * Translate between audiences. Explain complex technical choices in clear business and non-technical language; and convert user and business needs into actionable technical and delivery requirements. * Lead and develop people. Line manage and mentor the AI Implementation Delivery team members, setting clear objectives, giving constructive feedback, supporting career development, and building delivery capability. Work similarly with wider resource groups and internal networks. * Create an effective team culture. Coach team members, remove blockers and foster ownership, inclusion, learning, quality, and pragmatic decision-making., * Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary. * Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury. * Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing. * As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes. Employee Ownership * Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success. * Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses. * As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution. * Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future. * For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one. Health and wellbeing * Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. * Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments. * Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues. * A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family. * Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.