Agentic Tech Lead

The Openwork Partnership; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 67,500 - 82,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £75,000

15% on target bonus

Pension scheme with matching contributions

Critical illness cover

Income protection

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership is hiring an Agentic Tech Lead to oversee the design and delivery of innovative AI solutions. This pivotal role, based in Swindon, involves building workflows in Microsoft Foundry and leading a team of engineers to streamline operations.

Ideal candidates will have proven experience with AI solutions, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of Microsoft's automation tools. The position offers flexibility with a hybrid work model and a competitive benefits package, fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering agentic AI solutions at scale.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft automation and AI stack.
• Experience with process orchestration platforms.
• Strong track record of technical leadership and team development.
• Experience working in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of agentic AI solutions.
• Build multi-agent workflows in Microsoft Foundry.
• Design automation with Power Automate and AI Builder.
• Architect process orchestration and integrate systems.
• Develop and manage the Zero Friction engineering team.

Skills

Agentic AI solutions

Microsoft automation

Process orchestration

Technical leadership

Regulated environments

Power Platform knowledge

.NET development

AI governance

Tools

Power Automate

AI Builder

Microsoft Foundry

Azure services

Job description

The opportunity

We’re hiring an Agentic Tech Lead to 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’ll design and deliver agentic AI and automation solutions that eliminate manual effort, streamline operations, and fundamentally improve how work gets done.

This is a true hands‑on leadership role. You’ll spend 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’ll be 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 already operating at depth with agentic AI in production, who understands both its potential and the governance required to 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 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.

What will you need to succeed?

• Proven experience delivering agentic AI solutions at scale
• Deep expertise in Microsoft automation and AI stack (Power Automate, AI Builder, Azure AI, Foundry or equivalent)
• Experience with process orchestration platforms (e.g. Enate, Camunda, ServiceNow)
• Strong track record of 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
• Experience deploying AI in secure, compliance‑driven environments
• Security‑first approach (access control, auditability, prompt injection mitigation).

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast‑paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.