Technology Consultant - AI Engineer
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Description
Technology Consultant – AI Engineer
ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)
Salary up to £77,000 + up to 15% bonus and excellent benefits
Closing date – 27th of March 2026
Help us create a better future, quicker
The role holder will be the local subject matter expert in the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), agentic AI and large-scale language model (LLM) platforms and services, accelerating the adoption and migration to cloud solutions that enable the Digital Transformation of ScottishPower aligned to the Iberdrola Group goals. You will advise on the design, development and implementation of services, platforms and solutions based on GenAI and Cloud required by the group's businesses, from a multi cloud perspective, specifically AWS and Azure. You will work with the AI enablement hub to develop strategic plans for the evolution and improvement of ScottishPower’s GenAI environments, ensuring the secure management of corporate systems.
There will also be a focus on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of GenAI data and services, ensuring compliance with the Iberdrola Group's policies and regulations, as well as sectoral regulations and market standards. This will be reflected in the definition and implementation of controls and metrics that allow evaluating and ensuring their correct implementation and compliance.
What You'll Be Doing
ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)
Salary up to £77,000 + up to 15% bonus and excellent benefits
Closing date – 27th of March 2026
Help us create a better future, quicker
The role holder will be the local subject matter expert in the field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), agentic AI and large-scale language model (LLM) platforms and services, accelerating the adoption and migration to cloud solutions that enable the Digital Transformation of ScottishPower aligned to the Iberdrola Group goals. You will advise on the design, development and implementation of services, platforms and solutions based on GenAI and Cloud required by the group's businesses, from a multi cloud perspective, specifically AWS and Azure. You will work with the AI enablement hub to develop strategic plans for the evolution and improvement of ScottishPower’s GenAI environments, ensuring the secure management of corporate systems.
There will also be a focus on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of GenAI data and services, ensuring compliance with the Iberdrola Group's policies and regulations, as well as sectoral regulations and market standards. This will be reflected in the definition and implementation of controls and metrics that allow evaluating and ensuring their correct implementation and compliance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Standards Enforcement – understanding, communication and education on appropriate technical standards within the relevant technology domain
- Design – reviewing and approving the design of solutions within the generative AI domain, ensuring compliance with Group standards and direction
- Supplier Management – developing and maintaining relationships with suppliers to keep up to date on new developments and advances that could be incorporated into ScottishPower’s service offering
- Technical Consultancy – providing technical expertise to assist with the resolution of escalated operational problems and restoration of service to customers
- Change Management – reviewing and approving technology domain related changes to the IT estate, in accordance with the Change Management process, as required by operational or security requirements
- Capacity Planning – assessing and acting on FinOps suggestions for platform and service resizing to realise efficiencies in deployed platforms while ensuring that all known factors affecting future performance are addressed through plans for upgrades, enhancements, etc.
- Technical input to architectural planning – utilising relevant expertise to ensure that architectural plans and budgets reflect the activities and investment required to move from the current state to the desired state
The Iberdrola group is an AWS-first organisation; however, Azure is also a strong part of the cloud infrastructure estate. The skills listed below will focus on AWS, however demonstrable experience and skill on the Azure equivalents will also be considered.
- Strong Kubernetes (EKS) management for deploying AI models in containerized environments
- Implementation of serverless architectures using AWS Lambda for AI inference
- Cost optimization leveraging AWS Compute Optimizer, Cost Explorer, and Reserved Instances
- CI/CD pipeline implementation with AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins for automated AI model deployments
- Advanced monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Efficient log management using AWS CloudTrail, Amazon OpenSearch, and ELK Stack
One Or More Of The Following Certifications Is Desirable
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- AWS Certified Machine Learning – Associate or Specialty
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner
- Record of academic achievement, including some form of recognised qualification from further education, such as a degree or diploma
- Minimum five years working in a technical IT role
- Minimum of two years of experience working on AI/Machine Learning projects in the cloud
- Demonstrable knowledge of AWS and/or Azure technologies and services
- Good oral and written communication skill
- Ability to work under pressure (tight budgets, tight timelines, workload peaks, resourcing constraints)
- Numerate and able to deal with finances for the purposes of providing accurate estimates of resource cost to projects and provide management reports on cloud usage costs
- Willingness to travel by aircraft internationally on business
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
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.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
March-27-2026
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
March-27-2026