Skills Required

Minimum:

• A solid practical background as a staff, principal or lead engineer delivering complex production systems
• Experience designing cloud-native architectures across APIs, distributed systems, events or workflow platforms
• Experience leading internal or supplier engineers through design review, code review and coaching

Essential:

• Taking AI-enabled and data-intensive products from proof of concept to fully operational and supported services
• Developing robust, production-ready code with security by design, observability, testing and CI/CD
• Integrating enterprise systems while balancing rapid MVP delivery with sustainable architecture
• Making clear, well-documented technical decisions and constructively challenging assumptions and approaches
• Designing systems that maintain human oversight, auditability and accountability for decisions
• Driving knowledge management and ensuring effective transfer of technical expertise into permanent organisational ownership

Particularly Valuable:

• Experience with AWS Bedrock and AgentCore; RAG, agentic workflows, LLM judges and evaluation-driven development and human-in-the-loop systems. Designing controlled learning and adaptation loops in which operational outcomes can generate lessons, skills or changes to prompts, tools and workflows, with evaluation, versioning, approval and rollback before production deployment. Entity resolution, temporal modelling, provenance, event driven architectures, graph or knowledge architectures – including decision-record patterns. Regulated, public-sector or high-accountability delivery.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our Values & Culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability Confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful Information and Timeline

• Advert Closing: 11 October at 11:59pm
• CV Review/Shortlist: 13 October
• Technical Assessment: 14 - 21 October
• Case Study: 29 October- 3 November
• Interview W/C: 9 November

The selection process will involve a technical assessment, a case study presentation and a formal competency-based interview

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.