AI & Cloud Developer - Financial IT

It's more than a job

As a finance professional at Kuehne+Nagel, your work includes managing budgets, strategic planning, and overseeing financial operations. You also help make ordinary and special moments possible for people around the world. Because your financial diligence allows your colleagues across the company to stay focused on the core of their work, whether it's getting vital healthcare products to those who need them or fresh fruit to children playing in the park. Finance work at Kuehne+Nagel, means more than we imagine.

Are you passionate about building innovative AI solutions that solve real business challenges? We're looking for an AI & Cloud Developer to join our Financial IT Rapid Development team, where you'll play a key role in shaping the future of finance technology through artificial intelligence, cloud computing and modern software development. Working in a collaborative global environment, you'll design and deliver AI-powered applications, explore emerging technologies, and help integrate intelligent automation into business-critical financial systems. If you enjoy combining technical expertise with innovation and want to make a tangible impact, we'd love to hear from you.

How you create impact

• Design, develop and maintain AI-powered solutions, including LLM-based document processing, intelligent extraction pipelines and agentic workflows.
• Build and deploy scalable web applications and microservices on AWS using Python, following cloud security best practices.
• Drive AI and machine learning research and development by evaluating new models, tools and technologies, creating prototypes and recommending adoption opportunities.
• Develop and optimise prompt engineering solutions for production AI applications.
• Manage and enhance AWS cloud infrastructure, including ECS, Lambda, S3 and CI/CD pipelines. Integrate AI capabilities into existing Financial IT applications, identifying opportunities to automate processes and improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to assess new development requests and deliver innovative technical solutions.
• Support the evolution of next-generation finance platforms through AI-driven enhancements, data analysis and cloud-native technologies.

What we would like you to bring

• Strong commercial experience developing production-quality applications in Python.
• Experience with AI and machine learning, including LLM integration, prompt engineering and model evaluation.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on AWS or a comparable cloud platform.
• Some Java development experience to support integration with core ERP applications.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to work independently and take ownership.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• AWS AI Practitioner certification (or equivalent), or a willingness to achieve this during your probation period.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, MongoDB, JavaScript/TypeScript or finance systems would be advantageous.

What's in it for you

You’ll join a collaborative and forward-thinking global team where innovation is encouraged and new ideas are valued. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies, influence the future of Financial IT, and contribute to projects with global impact. Based in our Milton Keynes office with flexible remote working, you'll benefit from ongoing learning opportunities, exposure to modern cloud technologies, and the chance to work alongside talented colleagues across multiple international locations.