AI Solution Lead Engineer

AI Solution Lead Engineer

Location: Glasgow – hybrid working (2-3 days in the office)

Salary: £59-74K (plus up to 15% bonus, private healthcare and double-match pension)

Permanent, Full Time

Help us create a better future, quicker

ScottishPower's Digital, Planning & Culture (DP&C) function delivers technology and cultural services across the organisation. As data and artificial intelligence become increasingly important to business success, technical leadership is playing a critical role in shaping the future of IT.

What you’ll be doing

Manager, you will help drive the design, development and delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions. You will work across a diverse portfolio of data, AI and technology initiatives, partnering with architects, product owners, suppliers and delivery teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure and aligned with business objectives.

This role is suited to a technology leader with a strong background in designing and implementing production-grade AI solutions. You will combine hands-on engineering expertise with strategic technical leadership, helping transform innovative AI concepts into robust enterprise services that deliver measurable value.

You will play a key role in shaping ScottishPower's AI landscape. From supporting AI Lab experimentation through to production deployment, you will ensure high engineering standards, technical consistency and operational readiness across multiple initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include leading solution design, defining technical approaches and influencing architecture decisions across a range of AI technologies, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning. You will oversee the development of scalable AI applications, APIs and microservices while ensuring solutions meet governance, security and operational requirements.

Working closely with product owners and stakeholders, you will translate business challenges into practical AI solutions. You will help define value propositions, success measures and delivery roadmaps while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and technology strategy.

You will also contribute to the evolution of ScottishPower's AI engineering practices, establishing reusable patterns, improving MLOps capabilities and supporting the adoption of modern cloud-native architectures. This includes AI model deployment, monitoring, automation, CI/CD pipelines and responsible AI practices that ensure transparency, fairness and regulatory compliance.

What you’ll bring

The successful candidate will bring significant experience in software engineering, AI and cloud technologies, with a proven track record of delivering AI solutions at scale. You will have strong expertise in Python and modern machine learning frameworks, alongside experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. Knowledge of LLM frameworks, RAG architectures, MLOps tooling, container technologies and enterprise data platforms will be highly valued.

Beyond technical capability, you will be an effective communicator who can influence both technical and business stakeholders. You will be comfortable leading discussions, challenging proposals, managing ambiguity and building trusted relationships across complex organisations.

As a recognised technical leader, you will help shape the future of AI at ScottishPower while working closely with colleagues across the wider Iberdrola Group. This role may involve occasional international travel and offers the opportunity to contribute to strategic digital transformation initiatives that support the transition to a smarter, more data-driven energy business.

If you are passionate about AI, enjoy solving complex challenges and want to deliver innovative solutions at enterprise scale, we'd love to hear from you.

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%. 

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 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 world’s 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, we’re 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, you’ll 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 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.

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