If you still love building software, want ownership of genuinely difficult engineering challenges, and care about delivering systems that work in the real world, we would like to hear from you.

Technical landscape

We do not recruit around a rigid stack. You may have experience with technologies such as Go, Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, relational databases, event-driven systems, open-weight models, vector search, or agent orchestration frameworks. Depth, adaptability, and engineering judgement matter more than matching a checklist.

What makes this role different

• Shape technically ambitious programmes from discovery through to production.
• Work across modern software engineering, cloud, AI, and agentic AI.
• Solve complex problems without being constrained to a single technology stack.
• Test new technologies and approaches against real delivery challenges.
• Influence engineering standards, reusable patterns, and technical strategy.
• Work directly with senior client stakeholders and become a trusted technical adviser.
• Mentor strong engineers and build high-performing engineering teams.
• Deliver systems with meaningful impact across major government and enterprise services.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design and delivery of secure, resilient, and production-grade applications.
• Remain hands-on across frontend, backend, APIs, data, integration, cloud, and deployment.
• Build AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows that connect models, tools, data, and enterprise systems.
• Design agent orchestration, retrieval, context, state, memory, permissions, and human oversight.
• Establish robust approaches to AI evaluation, security, reliability, observability, and cost.
• Solve difficult problems across architecture, performance, scalability, and production operations.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions based on evidence and clearly explain the trade-offs.
• Lead teams through ambiguity and complex delivery rather than waiting for perfect requirements.
• Raise engineering standards through practical leadership, mentoring, and constructive challenge.
• Work closely with clients, architects, product teams, and delivery leaders.

What we’re looking for

You will be an outstanding software engineer who has developed into a technical leader without moving away from engineering.

You will bring:

• Exceptional and recent hands-on software engineering experience.
• A record of personally delivering complex, production-grade systems.
• Deep understanding of how modern systems operate end to end.
• Strong system-design and architecture capability backed by the ability to implement and validate your decisions.
• Broad experience across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud platforms.
• Experience diagnosing difficult issues across application, infrastructure, and runtime boundaries.
• Genuine technology independence and the ability to master unfamiliar tools and platforms quickly.
• Strong judgement across security, performance, reliability, maintainability, observability, and cost.
• Experience leading and mentoring excellent engineers while remaining technically credible.
• The confidence to challenge weak assumptions and defend better technical approaches.
• Excellent communication and client-facing skills.
• Experience working in government, regulated, or complex enterprise environments.
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain SC clearance.

AI and agentic AI capability

You will have practical experience taking AI beyond demonstrations and into secure, supportable production environments. We are looking for experience in areas such as:

• Building applications using large language models or other modern AI models.
• Designing agentic workflows involving tool use, structured outputs, and external system integration.
• Retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, grounding, and context management.
• Agent orchestration, state, memory, permissions, error recovery, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Evaluation of quality, reliability, safety, and measurable business outcomes.
• AI security, including prompt injection, data protection, access control, and auditability.
• Hosted, private, open-weight, sovereign, or disconnected deployment patterns.
• AI-assisted software engineering, with rigorous validation of generated code and designs.

Just as importantly, you will know when AI is the right solution and when conventional deterministic software is the better engineering choice.

Recruiter Contact:

Please write directly to Ofelia Georgieva on Ofelia Georgieva | LinkedIn ofelia.georgieva@atos.net

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Here at Atos, diversity and inclusion are embedded in our DNA. Read more about our commitment to a fair work environment for all. As a Disability Confident employer, we encourage applications from all applicants, especially, differently abled applicants. We aim to ensure that those who meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. We are committed and willing to making reasonable adjustments to the application and assessment process to accommodate your needs.

We are also a care leaver-friendly employer. If you require additional support with your application, please contact our recruiter or send an email to our dedicated mailbox - UK-Recruitment-Support@atos.net

Here at Atos, diversity and inclusion are embedded in our DNA. Read more about our commitment to a fair work environment for all.

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