AI‑Native Software Engineer & Platform Coach

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness plan

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Volunteering day

Job summary

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is seeking a Senior AI-enabled software engineer to join a team delivering AI-native development practices within product squads. You'll integrate Claude Code tooling, modern languages and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with embedded engineering teams in a hybrid model in the UK.

The role emphasizes coaching, transforming legacy code into scalable platforms, and contributing to central platform assets while maintaining close alignment with product goals and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production experience in modern languages.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or equivalent agentic CLI tooling.
• Experience with AI-native development practices: prompt-first development, AI pair programming, agent-assisted code review.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) and Git workflows.
• Experience working embedded within engineering teams.
• Ability to coach and upskill other engineers through pairing, demos, and knowledge transfer.
• Comfortable with ambiguity - able to assess unfamiliar codebases and prioritise improvements.

Responsibilities

• Deploy into product squads as part of the discovery and landing phase - assess current state, contribute to the transformation backlog, and begin immediate delivery alongside the team.
• Drive tech debt reduction and pipeline modernisation within the engineering team's production codebase during the early modernisation phase.
• Author and maintain AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md context files that capture product knowledge for LLM-assisted development.
• Inject centrally-published platform assets (agents, templates, CI/CD patterns) into live repositories during the rollout phase, ensuring they integrate with existing workflows.
• Build custom Claude Code (or equivalent agentic CLI tooling) skills and subagent architectures tailored to the squad's domain.
• Coach squad engineers on AI-native delivery habits: prompt-first PRs, agent-assisted reviews, effective use of Claude Code in daily development.
• Feed learnings, patterns, and reusable assets back to the Central Platform Team for inclusion in centrally-available components.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Java

Claude Code

AI-native development

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Embedded collaboration

Coaching engineers

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex CLI

Cline

Aider

GitLab

Container tooling

Job description

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is seeking a Senior AI-enabled software engineer to join a team delivering AI-native development practices within product squads. You'll integrate Claude Code tooling, modern languages and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with embedded engineering teams in a hybrid model in the UK.

The role emphasizes coaching, transforming legacy code into scalable platforms, and contributing to central platform assets while maintaining close alignment with product goals and