Senior AI Engineer

Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve grown evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands including Sensodyne Panadol Advil Voltaren Theraflu Otrivin and Centrum lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now its time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose to deliver better everyday health with humanity at the heart of everything we do. It unites us inspires us and challenges us to be better every day driven by our agile performance-focused culture.

About the role

The Senior AI Engineer is a hands-on senior engineering role in the Data and AI Office reporting to the Head of AI Engineering. The role designs builds and operationalises secure production-grade AI agents Copilot extensions and reusable enterprise capabilities.

The role combines the depth of an experienced AI developer with the breadth and judgement of a lead engineer and solution architect. It owns solution-level technical integrity from initial use-case exploration through architecture development evaluation deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.

The role will help Haleon move from isolated AI applications towards reusable skills plugins MCP-enabled integrations governed data and semantic grounding and repeatable engineering patterns that can support multiple functions markets and use cases.

Key responsibilities

Work with product owners business SMEs data owners and risk stakeholders to translate business processes and user needs into technically viable agentic solutions defining measurable outcomes acceptance criteria non-functional requirements and operational constraints.

Input into the end-to-end solution architecture for assigned agents and Copilot solutions including secure grounding and retrieval identity authentication authorisation least-privilege access reliability scalability maintainability cost control data residency observability rollback and supportability.

Personally design and write production-quality code configurations prompts agent instructions tools APIs connectors MCP services and automation using Microsoft Foundry Copilot Studio Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility Microsoft Graph and Copilot APIs Azure integration services and Power Platform.

Create reusable components skills plugins tool definitions prompt templates evaluation assets connectors deployment modules and reference implementations integrating with governed enterprise data and semantic layers.

Define and execute testing and evaluation across unit component integration regression grounding adversarial performance accessibility security and compliance requirements and provide evidence-based technical recommendations for go-live.

Deploy solutions through controlled development test and production environments; configure telemetry traces dashboards alerts auditability and production runbooks; and lead diagnosis and remediation of complex production incidents.

Conduct code prompt integration and design reviews for other engineers coach colleagues and feed production learning into reusable standards and engineering guidance.

Qualifications and skills

Essential

Agentic AI architecture orchestration and multi-step workflow design.

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service and SDK-based development.

Microsoft Copilot Studio Power Platform environments solutions and ALM.

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility including agents skills plugins connectors MCP and APIs.

Python and TypeScript/.NET engineering for production services and integrations.

API event workflow and integration architecture including Azure API Management Functions and Logic Apps where appropriate.

Enterprise grounding RAG vector search semantic models and governed data products.

Microsoft Entra identity OAuth managed identities RBAC and least privilege.

GitHub Azure DevOps CI/CD infrastructure or configuration automation and release engineering.

AI evaluation prompt and tool testing observability OpenTelemetry and Application Insights.

Threat modelling secure development privacy Microsoft Purview and Responsible AI.

Experience designing and delivering enterprise AI data cloud and or automation solutions into production with strong evidence of hands-on software engineering.

Preferred

Experience owning technical delivery across requirements design build testing go-live and live operations including integration with enterprise data APIs identity and security controls.

Experience operating in a regulated privacy-sensitive or similarly controlled environment.

Degree in computer science software engineering or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

Microsoft AI-103 AB-100 AB-620 AZ-305 PL-400 SC-300 or SC-401 credentials are desirable where aligned to the candidates specialism; equivalent production experience is acceptable.

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Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. Its important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

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