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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Solutions Engineer - **Company:** Ocho People - **Location:** Belfast, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £91,318.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Rapid Prototyping Process, Large Language Models, SC Clearance, AI Platforms - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5820149690 ## About the Role * Strong client-facing instinct, able to read a room, adapt on the fly and turn a conversation into a demo * A consultative background, orienting fast in unfamiliar domains and earning technical trust quickly * Hands-on, AI-native prototyping experience, comfortable with LLMs, agentic frameworks and rapid prototyping * Genuine engineering fundamentals (Python or comparable), credible with engineers and clear-eyed about what can actually be built * Proven ability to translate a discovery conversation into a buildable solution outline and delivery roadmap * Proven API-level LLM usage and a strong appetite for agentic dev tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Gemini CLI * A generalist spirit, thriving on variety, ambiguity and context-switching across sectors and domains * Willingness to travel regularly to client sites across the UK Desirable / Nice to Have: * Pre-sales, sales engineering or solutions-consulting experience in regulated industries (finance, defence, public sector or healthcare) * Familiarity with open-source LLMs, RAG, agentic patterns or protocols such as MCP / A2A * UK Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility and willingness to obtain it ## Description * Senior, client-facing technical role sitting at the front of the sales funnel for a fast-growing AI platform business * Hybrid role based in Belfast, with regular travel to client sites across the UK * Work across defence, finance, policing and other high-stakes regulated sectors * Build live, working demos using cutting-edge AI tooling, rather than running fixed product demos or filling in RFPs, This is not a typical pre-sales role. You will sit in the room with prospective customers as the technical partner to the Commercial team, turning a conversation into a working demo in near real time rather than running a fixed script. Everything you show is built live using the latest agentic AI tooling and grounded in the platform's real tech roadmap, so it is buildable, not vapourware. You will be the first technical voice the customer meets, opening the door and proving the value before handing off to the Solutions Engineers who build it out., * Partner with the Commercial team, joining prospect conversations as the technical voice and supporting the sales motion end to end * Discover in the room, listening to the client's world and surfacing the high-impact problems worth solving * Prototype in near real time, building working demos fast with AI-native tooling * Shape the roadmap, turning a conversation into a credible delivery plan aligned to the platform's tech direction * Hand off cleanly, packaging demos, requirements and roadmaps so the delivery Solutions Engineers can build the real thing * Feed the loop, bringing market and prospect signal back to the platform and product teams * Present compellingly to both technical and non-technical audiences, equally comfortable in a boardroom or whiteboarding with engineers * Travel regularly to client sites across the UK for in-person discovery and demos ## Related Videos - [Designing UX for SRE Agents in High-Stakes Incidents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100003-designing-ux-for-sre-agents-in-high-stakes-incidents) - [This App Reached 10,000 Users in One Week. 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