Agentic Tech Lead

Openwork Limited; Swindon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £75,000

On-target bonus 15%

Pension: Openwork matches 5% + 5%

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service 4x salary

27 days holiday + bank holidays + buy

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Openwork Limited is hiring an Agentic TechLead to power the Zero Friction tribe within its Automation Centre of Excellence. You’ll design and deliver agentic AI and automation solutions that remove friction, streamline operations, and transform how work gets done.

The role combines hands-on development with leadership: you’ll build agentic workflows in Microsoft Foundry, design automation pipelines in Power Automate, and guide engineers across the tribe to raise technical standards and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering agentic AI solutions at scale.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft automation and AI stack.
• Experience with process orchestration platforms (Enate, Camunda, ServiceNow).
• Strong leadership and team development.
• Experience working in regulated environments (financial services preferred).
• Expert in LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent systems.
• Advanced Power Platform knowledge (flows, integrations, orchestration).
• Strong .NET development background for integrations and extensions.
• Familiarity with Azure services (Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Key Vault, Cognitive Services).
• Knowledge of GDPR, data residency, and AI governance.
• Security-first approach (access control, auditability, prompt injection mitigation).

Responsibilities

• Leading the end-to-end design and delivery of agentic AI and automation solutions, from concept to production
• Building and governing multi-agent workflows in Microsoft Foundry, including LLM orchestration, RAG patterns, and AI-driven automation
• Designing and delivering automation using Power Automate and AI Builder (document processing, OCR, data extraction, process automation)
• Architect process orchestration and integrate with downstream systems across the business
• Defining and maintaining a technical patterns library (reusable components, prompts, workflow blueprints)
• Line managing and developing the Zero Friction engineering team, driving performance and capability
• Setting and enforcing engineering standards across quality, testing, observability, and documentation
• Partnering with Architecture and CTO leadership on agentic AI strategy and governance
• Evaluating emerging tools and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations.

Skills

Agentic AI design

Microsoft Foundry

Power Automate

AI Builder

LLM orchestration

Team leadership

Regulated environments

.NET development

Security awareness

Governance

Tools

Enate

Camunda

ServiceNow

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

Key Vault

Job description

We’rehiring an Agentic TechLeadto power the Zero Friction tribe-Openwork’s Automation Centre of Excellence.

This is a pivotal role with a clear mandate: remove friction from the business.You’lldesign and deliver agentic AI and automation solutions thateliminatemanual effort, streamline operations, and fundamentally improve how work gets done.

This is a true hands-on leadership role.You’llspend half your time building;developing agentic workflows in Microsoft Foundry, designing automation pipelines in Power Automate, and integrating across the Microsoft estate,and the other half leading engineers, setting standards, and driving technical excellence across the tribe.

Openwork is Azure-native and Microsoft-first, with an automation stack built on Microsoft Foundry, Power Automate, and AI Builder.You’llbe the expert in this space-shaping how these tools are used, defining reusable patterns, and guiding the evolution of the stack.

This role is suited to someone alreadyoperatingat depth with agentic AI in production, who understands both its potential and the governancerequiredto deploy it safely in a regulated financial services environment.

This is a hybrid role based in Swindon, with 3 days required in the office.

The benefits

• Salary - up to £75,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 15%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Your responsibilities will include

• Leading the end-to-end design and delivery of agentic AI and automation solutions, from concept to production
• Building and governing multi-agent workflows in Microsoft Foundry, including LLM orchestration, RAG patterns, and AI-driven automation
• Designing and delivering automation using Power Automate and AI Builder (document processing, OCR, data extraction, process automation)
• Architect process orchestration and integrate with downstream systems across the business
• Defining andmaintaininga technical patterns library (reusable components, prompts, workflow blueprints)
• Line managing and developing the Zero Friction engineering team, driving performance and capability
• Setting and enforcing engineering standards across quality, testing, observability, and documentation
• Partnering with Architecture and CTO leadership on agentic AI strategy and governance
• Evaluating emerging tools and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations.

What will you need to succeed

• Proven experience delivering agen tic AI solutions at scale
• Deepexpertisein Microsoft automation and AI stack(Power Automate, AI Builder, Azure AI, Foundry or equivalent)
• Experiencewith process orchestration platforms (e.g. Enate, Camunda, ServiceNow)
• Strongtrack recordof technical leadership and team development
• Experience working in regulated environments (financial services preferred)
• Expert in LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent systems
• Advanced Power Platform knowledge (flows, integrations, orchestration)
• Strong .NET development background for integrations and extensions
• Familiarity with Azure services (Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Key Vault, Cognitive Services)
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering and agent governance
• Deep understanding of GDPR, data residency, and AI governance
• Security-first approach (access control, auditability, prompt injection mitigation).