AI Engineer

About the Job you are considering:

Join C&CA UK as an AI Engineer and help shape the next generation of AI-driven business solutions within our Financial Services Business Unit. Working as part of a growing AI Engineering Innovation team, you will contribute to the design, delivery and evolution of strategic AI capabilities that create measurable business value. This role is ideal for individuals who are passionate about solving complex challenges, embracing continuous learning, and helping organisations realise the potential of AI responsibly and at scale. Aligned to C&CA’s vision to Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow., you will work with multidisciplinary teams to build innovative, future-ready solutions and contribute to an AI-fluent workforce.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Design and deliver scalable AI solutions that address strategic business challenges and drive measurable outcomes.
• Build and enhance intelligent workflows that improve automation, decision-making and user experiences.
• Establish effective approaches to evaluating, monitoring and improving the quality, reliability and performance of AI solutions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to transition innovative ideas into production-ready capabilities.
• Contribute to solution architecture, technical design discussions and engineering standards to ensure sustainable and maintainable outcomes.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through experimentation, innovation and rapid learning.
• Share knowledge, mentor colleagues and contribute to building a future-ready and AI-fluent engineering community.
• Work effectively within distributed teams, fostering collaboration, inclusivity and delivery excellence.
• Apply responsible AI principles to support trustworthy, secure and sustainable solution delivery.
• Continuously evolve skills and knowledge to remain at the forefront of emerging AI capabilities and industry practices.

Your Skills:

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with excellent coding, debugging and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven experience designing and delivering AI-powered solutions, including large language model (LLM) and agent-based use cases.
• Understanding of AI solution evaluation, performance measurement, governance controls and lifecycle management.
• Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms and enterprise integration approaches.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, adapt to evolving priorities and contribute within a greenfield environment.
• Awareness of emerging AI capabilities and a commitment to supporting an AI-fluent, future-ready workforce.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Python development expertise.
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph or similar AI orchestration frameworks.
• Exposure to vector databases, embeddings and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Knowledge of multi-agent architectures and agentic AI implementation patterns.
• Familiarity with AI observability, prompt evaluation, guardrails and model performance monitoring techniques.
• Understanding of AI safety, governance and Responsible AI principles.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications within banking, financial services or regulated industries.
• Knowledge of cloud-native application development and deployment patterns.

"We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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