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# Contract Platform Engineer - AI Platform Scaling

- **Company:** Codurance
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Salary:** £40,039.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, AI Platforms
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5851273691

## About the Role

We're looking for a Contract Platform Engineer who shares our values of pragmatism, professionalism and transparency, to join a mission-driven, non-profit academic organisation scaling an AI-driven initiative., * Strong communication and negotiation skills; this role is as much about cross-team alignment as it is technical delivery

 * Solid working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
 * Platform Operations experience
 * Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment while balancing imperfect product maturity against user needs

Desirable

 * Familiarity with AI tooling such as Claude, and an interest in coaching and upskilling colleagues on its use
 * Prior experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry (nice to have, not mandatory)

## Description

* Balancing ongoing product imperfections against the practical needs of real user deployment
 * Capturing business requirements, performing gap analysis, and prioritising delivery over perfection
 * Acting as a communication and negotiation bridge between separate teams reporting into the platform engineering lead
 * Helping educate the wider team on AI tooling to improve day-to-day operational efficiency

You'll be responsible for bringing clarity and momentum to a platform in transition: aligning stakeholders across teams, making pragmatic calls on imperfect tooling, and helping a PhD-heavy, academically-minded culture adopt new AI capability with confidence.

Because this is a contract engagement, we need someone who can move fast and get stuck in from day one, comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment without a long ramp-up period.