AI Principal Developer

ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)

Salary up to £88,500 + car allowance, up to 20% bonus, private medical & other excellent benefits

Closing date- Friday 31st of July 2026

Help us create a better future, quicker!

Working as a technical leader within the SP Energy Networks Centre of Excellence across all Value Streams, the Principal Developer will provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership in the exploration, design, and delivery of AI-driven and emerging technology solutions that accelerate SPEN’s digital transformation.

The role is responsible for identifying innovative opportunities, shaping scalable architectures, and embedding modern engineering practices to unlock business value, improve operational efficiency, and support regulatory and customer outcomes.

Acting as a senior technical authority within the Centre of Excellence, the Principal Developer will bridge cutting-edge technology with real world SPEN challenges, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned to enterprise standards, while fostering innovation, mentoring engineering teams, and driving the adoption of AI, automation, and next-generation digital capabilities across SPEN.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of AI and emerging technology solutions, ensuring they are designed, built, and deployed to meet enterprise standards for security, scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Translating strategic intent into high-quality engineering outcomes, embedding DevSecOps practices, and ensuring seamless integration with SPEN’s core platforms and data ecosystems
• Provide technical leadership on modern software engineering practices, integration patterns, cloud services, data platforms and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring designs are scalable, resilient, secure and supportable
• Agree and recommend AI solution and technology designs with business representatives and Solution Architecture leads

Experience in harnessing emerging technologies to the benefit of organisations

Knowledge of technologies and common Packaged Platform/Systems

Bachelor’s Degree. In lieu of Bachelor’s degree, equivalent industry experience may be considered

• Knowledge and practical experience of:
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Microsoft Copilot
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• AI Agents
• Prompt Engineering
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Intelligent Automation
• Machine Learning
• AI Governance
• Responsible AI
• Data Science
• Data Analytics
• Digital Transformation
  

What’s 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, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

Benefits

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s 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. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)

Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support

Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the Northwest of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2045.

And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£10 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. 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, you’ll fit right in.

We are 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 careers@scottishpower.com.

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.

IMPORTANT

Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below

July-31-2026