Director AI Platform & Engineering

Hays plc
Sheffield, UK
7 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Part-time / full-time
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
£75,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Access Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Regression Testing Systems Integration Data Logging Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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Large Language Models Snowflake AgentCore Agentic-AI AI Platforms Amazon Bedrock Cloud Integration Cloudwatch Terraform Software Version Control

Job description

The Director, Agentic AI Platform & Engineering owns the technical platform on which the businesses’ AI agents are built and operated: the AWS-based agentic automation stack (Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore and related services). This is a hands-on engineering role reporting to the Senior Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence, and does not currently have direct reports.

The role works through existing functions rather than duplicating them: Infrastructure for AWS accounts, networking, and cloud operations; Security for identity, access, and data protection; and Data / enterprise systems teams for Snowflake and system integrations., * Own the internal implementation and architecture of Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore and related AWS services as the businesses single enterprise agentic automation platform.

  • Design and own runtime governance components: guardrails, evaluation harnesses, automated regression testing, observability, logging, and prompt/tool/model versioning.
  • Build and maintain reusable agent templates and platform engineering patterns so new agents are faster, cheaper, and safer to deliver.
  • Own the tool/action architecture, including APIs and Lambda / Step Functions / EventBridge patterns, ensuring agents access enterprise systems through narrow, approved tools rather than broad credentials., Service Architect Location : Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Working arrangement: Hybrid, with on-site working likely as part of project delivery; exact arrangement to be discussed at interview Contract l… 12h ago, We’re looking for an experienced Azure Integration Developer to join a high performing technology team responsible for delivering and supporting enterprise scale integrations across a complex business… 1d ago

Requirements

  • 10-12 years in software or platform engineering, including recent delivery of production LLM applications (RAG, tool calling, agents, evaluations).
  • Deep AWS expertise (IAM, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, CloudWatch), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK), and CI/CD practice.
  • Strong proficiency in Python or a comparable language, with a sound engineering discipline.

Benefits & conditions

  • Permanent
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear
  • £50k - £70k / year, * Permanent
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear
  • £60k - £85k / year

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