AI Engineering Lead

AI Engineering Lead

ScottishPower HQ Glasgow (hybrid)

Salary up to 88500 car allowance up to 20% bonus & other excellent benefits

Full-time permanent position

Closing date: Tuesday 23rd of June 2026

Help us create a better future quicker!

As the AI Engineering Lead within our Digital team you will lead the design development and scaling of AI-powered and automation capabilities across our customer and internal platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership rolefocused on delivering intelligent data-driven solutions that enhance customer experience and improve operational efficiency.

You will be responsible for leading AI engineering and automation initiatives while also remaining actively involved in the design and build of solutions. This includes shaping technical direction developing key components and working closely with the product engineering teams to deliver secure scalable and production-ready capabilities. The role also includes ownership of major AI initiatives and embedding best practice across teams.

What youll be doing

• Lead the development and evolution of the ScottishPower Digital teams AI and automation capabilities ensuring alignment with business priorities and customer outcomes
• Own delivery of strategic AI initiatives defining the technical vision roadmap and operating model
• Actively design build and prototype AI-enabled solutions contributing hands-on to key components and complex problem solving
• Establish and drive engineering standards for AI including observability evaluation model governance and responsible AI practices
• Review and contribute to solution designs ensuring scalability security and maintainability across AI and automation platforms
• Embed automation-first thinking identifying opportunities to optimise processes and improve efficiency through technology
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product Data Security Engineering and Architecture to deliver integrated solutions
• Ensure alignment with AI governance risk and compliance frameworks including model validation monitoring and auditability
• Lead and mentor engineers and specialists fostering a culture of innovation experimentation and continuous improvement
• Drive adoption of AI and automation capabilities through practical delivery tooling and hands-on enablement

What youll bring

• Proven experience leading delivery of AI automation or advanced digital solutions at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with AI/ML and modern engineering practices ideally including LLMs generative AI agentic solutions and automation frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to design and build production-ready AI solutions
• Experience building and operating AI-enabled platforms or services in a cloud-native environment (e.g. Azure or AWS)
• Familiarity with RAG architectures APIs observability tools (Langfuse or similar) and data integration patterns
• Experience with CI/CD DevOps practices and platform engineering for scalable delivery
• Knowledge of AI governance security and compliance considerations including risk management and observability
• Proficiency with modern development tooling (e.g. Git pipelines infrastructure-as-code)
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate technical capability into business value
• Experience leading teams while remaining close to the technology and delivery

Minimum Criteria

• Proven experience leading the delivery of AI automation or advanced digital solutions at scale
• Hands-on expertise in AI/ML and modern engineering practices including generative AI LLMs self-hosting language models or automation frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to design build and deploy production-ready AI solutions within cloud environments (e.g. Azure or AWS)
• Solid understanding of AI architectures and tooling (e.g. RAG APIs observability data integration CI/CD and DevOps practices)
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate technical solutions into clear business value while guiding teams

Whats in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme well double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower we believe its the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your familys wellbeing save for your future and take personal steps for climate action our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world today and tomorrow. Thats why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance private medical insurance health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to nudge financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping leisure restaurant and gym discounts and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group one of the worlds largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future were at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over 6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals in a global organisation.

Inclusion diversity and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values they bring us together into a stronger more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours so whatever your background youll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities long term conditions mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support please reach out to .

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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