Agentic AI Principal
ThoughtWorks12 hours ago
Manchester, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape complex UKI agentic AI pursuits and translate client needs into architectures, propositions, and executable delivery approaches.
- Define and validate production-grade agentic AI architectures involving multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, memory, context strategy, retrieval, evaluation, observability, and enterprise integration.
- Establish reusable governance, auditability, traceability, safeguards, engineering standards, and architecture patterns across teams and engagements.
- Lead complex programmes and multidisciplinary teams while managing technical risk and maintaining hands-on involvement.
- Design sovereign, compliant, secure, and responsible AI solutions for regulated financial services and telecommunications environments.
- Guide experimentation and production engineering across evaluation, testing, CI/CD, reliability, cost, and performance optimisation.
- Advise C-suite and senior clients, shape high-value opportunities, and connect AI architecture decisions to measurable business value and ROI.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders and raise agentic AI capability across the wider engineering community.
- Evaluate emerging agentic AI technologies and frameworks and guide their responsible adoption.
- Represent Thoughtworks’ agentic AI expertise in strategic client conversations, industry forums, partnerships, and thought leadership.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in modern software engineering and Python, including setting standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, maintainability, and production reliability.
- Recognised experience architecting and delivering complex GenAI and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale from discovery through production deployment.
- Deep knowledge of agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, and LlamaIndex, including orchestration, tool use, memory, and multi-agent coordination.
- Strong expertise in Retrieval-Augmented Generation, advanced information retrieval, vector databases, and enterprise knowledge integration.
- Experience designing GenAI and agentic AI evaluation strategies covering quality, safety, reliability, latency, and cost.
- Strong understanding of AI governance and safeguards, including guardrails, red-teaming, observability, responsible AI, and secure deployment.
- Significant experience deploying AI systems on major cloud platforms using containers, orchestration, and production-grade infrastructure patterns.
- Experience with prompt and context engineering, fine-tuning where appropriate, model adaptation, and application-level performance optimisation.
- Ability to make architecture trade-offs across model capability, reliability, security, compliance, performance, and cost.
- Proven ability to lead C-suite and senior client engagements and communicate complex technical concepts and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong consulting and commercial judgement, including experience shaping high-value opportunities, building investment cases, and contributing to pipeline conversion.
- Proven leadership of complex delivery across multidisciplinary teams and ability to influence across organisations without formal authority.
- Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and technical leaders and raise standards across a wider engineering community.
Benefits
- Career development supported through interactive tools, development programmes, and a cultivation-focused team culture.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid posting designation.
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About ThoughtWorks
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that designs and builds custom software, data platforms, and cloud-native systems for enterprises across industries. Its services-based model spans product discovery, agile delivery, platform modernization, and advisory on digital transformation and AI. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Chicago, it listed on Nasdaq in 2021 (TWKS) and remains backed by private-equity firm Apax Partners.