Senior Software Engineer – Agentic Development Enablement

London Source: WhatJobs

£90,000–£110,000

Investigate safe patterns for enterprise use of agentic development tools such as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
Design and implement guardrails, controls, and engineering patterns for AI-assisted development
Contribute to endpoint and platform observability, telemetry, and policy enforcement
Define how controls work consistently across local development environments and CI/CD pipelines
Explore changes to development environments, including containerised or backend-offloaded approaches
Run research, proof-of-concept work, and technical experimentation
Work across engineering, platform, security, and adjacent enterprise teams to turn concepts into operating solutions
Shape scalable practices for governance, rollout, and developer adoption
Help build an AI-enabled delivery platform on AWS to modernise the path to production

Requirements

Strong hands-on background as a software engineer
Broad technical understanding across developer tooling, cloud platforms, operating systems, desktop environments, security controls, observability, telemetry, and CI/CD
Experience working on developer workflows and engineering ways of working, not only end-user application delivery
Ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces and turn research or experimentation into practical implementation
Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical disciplines and stakeholder groups
Curiosity, sound engineering judgement, and comfort operating across discipline boundaries
Experience with enterprise adoption of AI-assisted development tools (desirable)
Familiarity with secure developer environments, enterprise guardrails, or policy enforcement (desirable)
Experience with containerised development environments or remote/offloaded development models (desirable)
Exposure to telemetry, usage analytics, or engineering reporting pipelines (desirable)
Experience in regulated or control-heavy enterprise environments (desirable)
Some data engineering or analytics capability, particularly where reporting and insight generation are part of the role (desirable)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in AI-assisted development tools, cloud platforms, and secure developer environments, with a strong focus on implementing governance and engineering patterns. Capable of translating research and experimentation into practical solutions while fostering collaboration across technical disciplines.