IDP Prompt Engineer - Edinburgh

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Prompt Engineer to work for our client within the Financial Services sector. This is initially a 6-12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Edinburgh.

Our client is seeking IDP Prompt Engineers to design, develop and optimise AI-driven document-processing solutions within an enterprise AI Hub.

The role combines prompt engineering, Generative AI, OCR and Intelligent Document Processing to improve how structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents are classified, understood, validated and processed.

You will work with technologies including Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service and Tungsten TotalAgility. You will translate business requirements into secure, reusable and scalable document-intelligence capabilities for regulated, document-intensive business processes

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test and optimise prompts for document understanding, classification, data extraction and validation.
  
• Configure and optimise Azure AI Document Intelligence models and Tungsten TotalAgility workflows.
  
• Develop hybrid OCR and Large Language Model processing approaches for structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents.
  
• Support complex extraction requirements, including handwritten content, tables and variable document formats.
  
• Define confidence thresholds, validation rules, exception-handling processes and prompt guardrails.
  
• Evaluate extraction accuracy and monitor performance against agreed success measures.
  
• Diagnose extraction failures and continuously improve prompts, models and processing workflows.
  
• Establish reusable prompt libraries, templates, testing standards and quality-assurance processes.
  
• Document design decisions, assumptions, test results and lessons learned.
  
• Support AI governance, security, compliance, threat modelling and model-validation activities.
  
• Contribute to operational readiness, service transition and knowledge transfer into BAU support.
  
• Present technical recommendations and performance findings to business and technical stakeholders.
  
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance on the safe and effective use of Intelligent Document Processing capabilities