Agentic Engineer - Hybrid | AI, Data & Systems

John Lewis Partnership; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bracknell Office

Job summary

John Lewis Partnership is seeking an experienced software engineer to work within our hybrid engineering practice in the UK. The role focuses on Agentic AI, cloud platforms, and data-driven improvement of business processes, collaborating with business users to identify value and shape roadmaps.

You will join multiple teams and split time between home and our Bracknell office, with occasional visits to other locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of software engineering using Java (or Kotlin) in a complex commercial environment.
• Experience of Agentic Engineering including working with agentic coding environments and automated engineering workflows.
• Experience of building & implementing agentic systems using agent orchestration & frameworks and advanced prompt/context engineering.
• Understanding of state & memory management, deterministic guardrails & evaluation (Evals), tool & API integration, agentic protocols including MCP, A2A, UCP.
• Experience of working with cloud based data platforms (we use Snowflake).
• Experience of deploying/running solutions on cloud based infrastructure (we use GCP).
• Proven ability to translate raw data into actionable insights that drive problem-solving.
• Excellent communicator and influencer with the ability to question and challenge stakeholders to identify the root causes of problems.

Responsibilities

• Working directly with business users as part of a small team to understand poorly defined operational business problems and to identify opportunities to radically improve business processes.
• Using your excellent communication and influencing skills to quickly build rapport with business colleagues and to influence key decision makers.
• Using your excellent systems thinking, agentic AI and data analysis skills to work collaboratively with business colleagues to understand underlying business problems and friction points.
• Using your excellent Agentic AI, Software Engineering and Architecture skills to identify and explore options for addressing the most important business issues.
• Exploring short term solutions which drive immediate business value by creating and iterating prototypes in close collaboration with business users,
• Using your insights into how key parts of the business operate to inform architecture and/or product roadmaps.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Agentic Eng

Agentic Systems

Prompt Engineering

Snowflake

GCP

State Management

Stakeholder Influence

Tools

Snowflake

GCP

Job description

John Lewis Partnership is seeking an experienced software engineer to work within our hybrid engineering practice in the UK. The role focuses on Agentic AI, cloud platforms, and data-driven improvement of business processes, collaborating with business users to identify value and shape roadmaps.

You will join multiple teams and split time between home and our Bracknell office, with occasional visits to other locations as needed.