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Senior Lead Agentic AI Engineer – Construction & Engineering

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19 days ago
Staines-upon-Thames, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small autonomous engineering team by setting technical direction, driving delivery and quality, and developing engineers.
  • Design and ship full-lifecycle features across front-end and back-end systems.
  • Build and consume APIs and event-driven services connecting workforce, project, scheduling, and financial data.
  • Develop and operate agentic and LLM-backed product features using RAG, agentic architectures, evaluation harnesses, and context engineering.
  • Make performance and scalability decisions that hold under load.
  • Work in customer environments, test assumptions against real-world needs, and incorporate evidence into the product.
  • Own software through design, build, testing, deployment, and production operation.
  • Document technical decisions and improve engineering practices across the team.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience with depth in at least one area such as front end, back end, data, quality, security, platform, or applied AI.
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineers and genuinely wanting to remain hands-on with code.
  • Ability to work across the stack and take ownership in ambiguous environments.
  • Experience using AI tools and agentic patterns in real engineering work.
  • Experience shipping AI-backed features such as LLM integrations, RAG, or agentic patterns.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proof through built work.
  • Experience with enterprise, ERP, project-based, construction, engineering, or other field-heavy software is a plus.
  • Experience delivering software with globally distributed teams and leading them is a plus.

Benefits

  • Flexible and hybrid work opportunities.
  • Inclusive workplace experiences and opportunities to connect with colleagues globally.
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