Skills

Communication Python CRM Azure

Job Specifications

AI Engineer (MS Stack)

Hybrid Working – London – 2 days a week on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for an AI Engineer with strong experience across the Microsoft AI stack, supporting a wave of AI innovation, solution design and capability uplift across the business.

You’ll act as a flexible, hands‑on technical specialist who can plug gaps, drive early-stage delivery, and accelerate our roadmap across Azure AI Foundry, M365 agents, Copilot extensibility and broader Microsoft tooling.

This role suits someone who is highly autonomous, delivery‑focused, and capable of handling a wide mix of early-stage engineering, documentation, prototyping and solution shaping

This role is based in London.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

What You’ll Be Doing:

AI Engineering & Build

Designing and building AI solutions using:
Azure AI Foundry
M365 Agents
Copilot extensions / plugins
Micro stack orchestratinsmkl1on
Python as the primary engineering language
Creating purpose‑built AI agents aligned to CRM AI business maps, workflow automation and productivity conversations.

Innovation & Pilot Delivery

Driving innovation pilots, PoCs and early discovery work across the business.
Working alongside internal engineers and external partners to fill capability gaps and accelerate delivery.
Acting as an SME in the Foundry space, advising on design patterns, feasibility and technical constraints.

Technical Ownership

Producing clear solution design, documentation and reusable patterns.
Helping shape IP, frameworks and technical assets that can be scaled beyond the contract period.
Supporting teams who are still early in their AI maturity — translating concepts into workable, pragmatic solutions.

Key Skills and Experience:

Technical Skills

Strong engineering background with Python at the core.
Hands‑on experience across the Microsoft AI ecosystem, including:
Azure AI Foundry
M365 extensibility / agent frameworks
Copilot customisation
Microstack orchestration
Ability to design and implement end‑to‑end AI workflows and agents.

AI Expertise

Solid understanding of modern AI concepts and patterns developed over the last few years.
Experience in LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, prompt engineering and real‑world delivery.
An “eye for making it work” — practical, production‑focused engineering.

Ways of Working

Able to step into an environment that is “a million miles off the mark” and bring clarity to solution design.
Comfortable bridging gaps between technology and business-facing stakeholders.
Strong documentation, communication and design thinking skills.

Ethical & Responsible AI

Awareness of responsible AI principles and ability to embed guardrails into design and engineering decisions.

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About the Company

Impellam is a connected group offering unparalleled workforce and STEM talent solutions expertise to provide organisations with mission-critical skillsets to future-proof businesses. Our blended approach fuses extensive workforce solutions expertise, with access to deep communities of STEM talent. As one of the largest workforce and STEM talent solutions companies in the world, we help clients to get the best possible ROI from £5bn of workforce spend and 2,900 supplier relationships, across nearly 80 countries. What’... Know more