Lead Automation Engineer: Agentic AI & Platform Delivery

Aquent; Worthing; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent is seeking a technical leader to drive end-to-end delivery of high-complexity automation, digital workers, and agentic AI solutions. You will innovate best practices, define architectural standards, and mentor teams to accelerate digital transformation and efficiency.

The role requires deep expertise in Power Platform, agentic AI, and secure DevOps, with responsibility for governance, runbooks, SLAs, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on mastery of Microsoft Power Platform and automation tooling.
• Experience with agentic AI, governance, and responsible AI controls.
• Strong ALM/DevOps with CI/CD and multi-environment deployment.
• Architecture, security, GDPR compliance, and data governance knowledge.
• Understanding of groundedness, bias mitigation, prompt-injection defense.
• Proven delivery leadership in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Degree in CS/Software Eng or equivalent experience with enterprise automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-lifecycle delivery for complex automations across multi-system environments, APIs, and unattended flows.
• Design and orchestrate agentic AI solutions with Responsible AI controls.
• Establish and enforce architecture and engineering standards, including CI/CD pipelines and security roles.
• Conduct peer code/architecture reviews and oversee testing, deployment, and ELS.
• Collaborate with platform engineers on readiness, capacity, and monitoring; resolve defects and perform RCA.
• Create reusable components, patterns, APIs, and starter kits; coach engineers and citizen developers.
• Act as trusted technical advisor to analysts, product owners, architects, SMEs, and suppliers.

Skills

Power Platform

Agentic AI

Azure

DevOps

Security & GDPR

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Copilot Studio

Azure AI Foundry

Power Automate

Dataverse

APIs

ServiceNow

Job description

Aquent is seeking a technical leader to drive end-to-end delivery of high-complexity automation, digital workers, and agentic AI solutions. You will innovate best practices, define architectural standards, and mentor teams to accelerate digital transformation and efficiency.

The role requires deep expertise in Power Platform, agentic AI, and secure DevOps, with responsibility for governance, runbooks, SLAs, and cross-functional collaboration.