Principal Platform Engineer & AI Strategy Lead

8Thlightrebuild; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited learning with O'Reilly

Learning stipend

Co-working support

12 weeks new parent leave

Job summary

8th Light in London seeks a Principal Engineer to lead platform strategy and delivery across client engagements, shaping scalable foundations, architecture, and long‑term technical roadmaps.

Based in London with a Waterloo hybrid hub (one day in office), you will mentor teams, drive modernization, and collaborate with product and clients to deliver high‑quality outcomes. Salary ranges £92,818–£116,122 GBP.

Qualifications

• Platform engineering: building reusable software foundations, internal developer platforms, and infrastructure that other teams build on
• Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics
• Delivering production agentic systems, including RAG pipelines, vector search, and agentic frameworks
• DevSecOps & DevOps
• MLOps
• Infrastructure as Code

Skills

Platform engineering

Data Engineering

Agentic systems

DevSecOps

MLOps

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

8th Light in London seeks a Principal Engineer to lead platform strategy and delivery across client engagements, shaping scalable foundations, architecture, and long‑term technical roadmaps.

Based in London with a Waterloo hybrid hub (one day in office), you will mentor teams, drive modernization, and collaborate with product and clients to deliver high‑quality outcomes. Salary ranges £92,818–£116,122 GBP.