Lead Engineer, AI-Native Delivery & Mentorship

Grant Thornton UK; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK is building a new digital function as part of a £500m transformation. We are hiring Lead Engineers to be the senior technical voice in delivery teams—hands-on leaders who can operate in an AI-native environment, prototyping through deployment.

You’ll own technical direction, mentor engineers, and work closely with product managers and business stakeholders in a matrix structure. Flexible working options are available, with appetite for reduced hours or job shares.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production-grade software.
• Proficiency in Python or C#/.NET and systems thinking.
• Ability to translate technical constraints into business language.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for your team(s) and own the quality of what is delivered.
• Mentor engineers on craft, and develop their judgement about when and how to use AI tooling.
• Build and maintain the integrations, API connections and infrastructure that sit beneath and around our GenAI platform.
• Build systems, tools and solutions in an AI-native way.
• Represent engineering credibly with senior stakeholders, translating between technical design and business need.
• Keep technical debt visible, trade-offs explicit, and delivery pace predictable.
• Contribute to our engineering standards and help the wider function improve over time.

Skills

Python

C# / .NET

AI-native engineering

End-to-end delivery

Stakeholder management

GenAI tools

Tools

GenAI platforms

Job description

Grant Thornton UK is building a new digital function as part of a £500m transformation. We are hiring Lead Engineers to be the senior technical voice in delivery teams—hands-on leaders who can operate in an AI-native environment, prototyping through deployment.

You’ll own technical direction, mentor engineers, and work closely with product managers and business stakeholders in a matrix structure. Flexible working options are available, with appetite for reduced hours or job shares.