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Senior Azure AI Developer

Data Science and AI Full–time
ID: #11023
Posted: 2026-03-16
Salary

Description

We are seeking an highly experienced Azure AI Developer to lead and manage the deployment and optimization of Azure AI Search solutions within a leading global bank. The successful candidate will manage the centralised Azure AI Search team, serving as the primary conduit to understand, implement, and optimise its capabilities across the firm. This role involves collaborating with clients and tech leads to set up and maintain Azure AI Search, manage document ingestion, metadata management, and tuning to ensure high-quality, accurate, and consistent results. Primary Responsibilities and Objectives: • Act as the go-to expert for Azure AI Search, safeguarding best practices in implementation, ingestion, and optimization • Partner with the Azure AI Search team to understand the platform’s capabilities, roadmaps, and governance • Lead the ingestion of documents into Azure AI Search, ensuring proper metadata tagging, data quality, and relevance • Set up Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to deliver accurate responses against a document corpus of approximately 500 documents • Optimise and tune Azure AI Search indexes for best performance, relevance, and accuracy • Identify and implement key features of Azure AI services needed for successful deployment • Work with clients and technical teams to define use cases, document workflows, and solution architecture • Contribute to establishing robust MLOps and CI/CD pipelines on Azure to streamline deployment and maintenance • Maintain compliance with relevant data governance standards, including GDPR, especially concerning PII data • Proactively highlight potential risks, suggest improvements, and demonstrate thought leadership in AI solutions • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including Java developers, Azure AI Search specialists, and co-pilot engineers Experience: • Extensive experience with Azure AI and Machine Learning services, especially Azure Cognitive Search • Deep understanding of cloud architecture, deployment, and management on Azure • Strong programming skills in Python, API integration, and Java scripting (nice to have) • Proven experience in data engineering tasks, model deployment, and MLOps best practices • Experience designing, setting up, and managing RAG architectures and search solutions • Ability to operate at a strategic level, identifying critical features and risks in Azure AI implementations • Familiarity with GDPR and data governance best practices, especially concerning sensitive information • Excellent collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills Key Azure AI and Machine Learning Services: • Azure Cognitive Services • Azure Machine Learning • Azure Search (Azure Cognitive Search) • Azure Data Factory / Databricks (potentially for data engineering tasks) • Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake (for document storage and ingestion) • Azure Logic Apps and Functions (for automation workflows) • MLOps tools within Azure for deployment, monitoring, and management Multi-year contract (inside) - Strong market rates - Hybrid working x3 days in GLASGOW office - Great team! Diversity Statement Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law

Hard Skills 6
Skill Source Confidence
Python llm_hard
100%
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) llm_hard
100%
Model Deployment llm_hard
100%
MLOps llm_hard
100%
Azure ML llm_hard
100%
Java llm_hard
80%
Soft Skills 10
Skill Source Confidence
Collaboration llm_soft
100%
Cross-Team Collaboration llm_soft
100%
Mentoring llm_soft
100%
Stakeholder Communication llm_soft
100%
Decision-Making llm_soft
80%
Problem-Solving llm_soft
80%
Critical Thinking llm_soft
80%
Leadership llm_soft
80%
Team Leadership llm_soft
80%
Strategic Thinking llm_soft
80%
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