Lead Associate - AI/Engineering

Job description

The Lead Associate - AI / .NET is a senior technical authority within the engineering organisation, responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high‑quality software solutions that power Davies’ UK&I technology estate. The role provides hands‑on technical leadership across modern engineering practices, cloud‑native architectures, and Agile delivery environments, ensuring that engineering squads consistently deliver robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable software. Acting as a role model for engineering excellence, the Lead Associate - AI / .NET mentors developers at all levels, promotes best practice, and drives continuous improvement in code quality, patterns, tooling, and development workflows. The role is responsible for solving complex technical problems, setting engineering direction, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to ensure solutions meet strategic and operational objectives. This role is ideal for a highly skilled, T‑shaped engineer with deep specialism in one or more areas (back‑end, front‑end, cloud, DevOps) and broad exposure across the modern Microsoft‑centric stack including .NET, C#, React/TypeScript, Azure, Terraform, and SQL Server.