Senior AI Developer & Change Lead

IVES RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LTD
London, United Kingdom
Today
£40,000 pa

Salary

£40,000 pa

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Lead
Posted
24 Sep 2026 (Today)

Senior AI Developer & Change Lead – London/Hybrid – Up to £40k p.a. + benefits

Are you looking to join an extremely collaborative and professional business, who pride themselves on culture and customer focus?

Do you have experience working in and a passion for AI development?

Do you enjoy working within a varied role and one in which you will have breadth and autonomy in your remit?

If so, this could be an ideal role for you!

Ives Recruitment Solutions are delighted to be working with this established organisation who pride themselves on integrity, collaboration and offering an extremely professional service to their clients.

They are seeking a Senior AI Developer & Change Lead to help drive their business wide AI implementation programme. This is a broad role that will include design, development, change management and process engineering. You will manage the complete process from initial requirement, through to design and build, to adoption, and ensuring continuous improvement.

The role will also encompass change programmes, working closely with stakeholders to identify where there is a need and use for AI, challenge existing processes and educate teams accordingly.

The role will include leading process mapping and re-engineering work; designing and building AI-enabled applications; define testing and acceptance criteria; lead change management, training and adoption activity, and provide technical guidance. There will interaction with the wider IT team to ensure solutions integrate with existing systems; and you will ensure that standards are adhered to.

You will need to be a self-starter, who can work autonomously and be able to manage multiple priorities efficiently. There will be considerable stakeholder management across the business, and you will need to be able to provide guidance and support.

Experience & Skills required:

  • Previous experience delivering software projects end to end.
  • Software development experience and with strong ability in mainstream language (e.g. C#, Python, JavaScript)
  • Practical experience of building with AI development tooling and coding assistants, with the judgement to review, correct and take responsibility for AI-generated code and outputs.
  • Experience designing and implementing AI-enabled solutions.
  • Strong process engineering and business analysis capability
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience mentoring more junior members of the team.

We aim to respond to all applicants promptly; however we kindly ask for your understanding in case of a delay. If you do not hear from us within 10 days of submitting your application, please assume that, unfortunately, you have not been successful this time.

We will however keep your CV on file and review your suitability against any other vacancies we may have available. Candidate data will be treated as confidential and not shared with third parties.

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