AI Engineer

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an AI Engineer looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

Purpose of the Role

As part of the Group’s Data, Analytics & AI team, you’ll play a key role in shaping how AI and data transform the way we work. You’ll help design, build and safely deliver innovative AI, analytics and automation solutions that remove friction from colleagues’ day-to-day activities, empower better decision-making, and unlock measurable business value.

Working alongside the AI Lead, you’ll contribute across the full lifecycle turning well-defined challenges into impactful, real-world Copilot, agent and analytics solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to bring ideas to life, experiment with cutting-edge technologies, and drive meaningful change across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Help build, test and iterate AI, automation or analytics solutions
• Learn new tools, platforms and techniques under guidance
• Support discovery activities by helping map current processes, pain points and data flows
• Assist in defining problem statements and success measures
• Contribute to documentation, process maps and design artifacts
• Follow agreed development standards, controls and review processes
• Support testing, validation and sign-off activities
• Track outcomes and help update dashboards or performance measures
• Capture learnings and reusable components to support future delivery

What you’ll bring to the team

• Ability to work collaboratively with engineers, analysts and business stakeholders
• Curiosity and structured thinking when understanding processes and problem statements
• Confidence to ask questions, seek feedback and learn from the wider team.
• Ability to document work clearly: assumptions, decisions, outcomes and learnings
• Attention to detail, particularly around data handling, testing and validation
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform (Copilot Studio, Power Automate)
• Coding experience using Python, SQL or other similar languages

Qualifications and experience

Must have at least 2 years proven experience using Microsoft Fabric and/or Power Platform.

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply. 

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.

Working hours

Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5.00pm with one hour for lunch . This is a hybrid role, 2 days expected in office.

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone.  If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
•  Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
•  Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
•  Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
•  Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
•  Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
•  Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
•  Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.