Senior Technical Application Specialist (AI Engineering)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Application Specialist (AI Engineering): Shaping advanced AI capabilities by designing, building, and adopting them across the Group with an accent on secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Focus on translating business problems into practical AI solutions and ensuring AI applications are built with security, resilience, ethics and responsible AI principles.

Location: Hybrid, involving spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites in Manchester.

Salary: £72,702 - £109,053

Company

hirify.global is rebooting an icon and building the future of finance.

What you will do

• Design, build and support agentic AI applications that orchestrate workflows, decision‑making and automation across complex systems.
• Act as a technical authority for AI‑enabled applications, advising teams on architecture, integration and best practice.
• Partner with engineers, data scientists, architects and product teams to translate business problems into practical AI solutions.
• Ensure AI applications are built with security, resilience, ethics and responsible AI principles at their core.
• Support the full application lifecycle, from proof of concept through to production deployment and ongoing optimisation.
• Share knowledge and coach others, helping to grow AI capability and confidence across the wider engineering community.

Requirements

• Strong experience designing and supporting complex, production‑grade applications in modern technology environments.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑enabled or intelligent systems, such as agent‑based workflows, orchestration layers or advanced automation.
• Solid understanding of application architecture, integration patterns and APIs.
• Experience working with cloud platforms and modern engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, reliability).
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience working with large language models (LLMs), AI platforms or orchestration frameworks.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, model governance or risk controls.
• Background in regulated or large‑scale enterprise environments.
• Experience mentoring or leading others on technical approaches.

Culture & Benefits

• Joining a forward‑looking technology community where you can experiment, learn and make a tangible impact.
• Working on some of the most interesting AI challenges in UK financial services.
• Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments, including hybrid working expectations, in line with our Flexibility Works policy.