Python Developer

Oxbow Talent; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Oxbow Talent is seeking a software/cloud/platform engineer to join Belfast-based AI initiative. You will work across AI-enabled products in a high-scale, trusted environment, influencing how AI systems are built while doing serious Python and AWS work.

The role combines engineering with AI delivery, offering a hybrid working model and a strong benefits package in the Belfast market.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals across software/cloud/platform engineering and DevOps.
• Experience with AWS and cloud deployments at scale.
• Hands-on Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building AI-enabled solutions that solve real business problems.
• Developing software and automation using Python.
• Working heavily with AWS across cloud services, deployment and platform design.
• Using infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.
• Helping shape secure, scalable and reliable AI platforms.
• Translating business requirements into technical solutions with stakeholders.
• Contributing to engineering standards, architecture decisions and delivery approach.
• Keeping pace with emerging AI tools and identifying practical value.

Skills

Python

AWS

Terraform

DevOps

AI interest

Job description

You must currently be living in Northern Ireland to be considered for this role.

This role cannot provide sponsorship.

This is not a standard software engineering role, and it is not a basic AI role either.

We are working with a major Belfast-based organisation that is building out a serious AI capability and looking for someone who can sit across software engineering, cloud engineering and AI delivery.

You will be joining at a point where the AI function is still being shaped, so there is a genuine opportunity to influence how things are built. The work is practical, production-focused and properly backed, rather than being a small internal experiment or a bit of AI bolted onto an existing team.

It is a good fit for someone who wants to move closer to AI without leaving behind serious Python, AWS and cloud engineering work.

The role also comes with a hybrid working model and one of the strongest benefits packages we have seen in the Belfast market.

What the role involves

You will be working on AI-enabled products and platforms in a high-scale, high-trust environment where security, reliability and engineering standards genuinely matter.

The work sits across:

• Infrastructure as code
• Turning business problems into working technical solutions

One day you could be designing an AI-enabled solution with stakeholders, the next you could be building Python services, improving AWS deployment patterns, or helping get something production-ready.

What you will be doing

• Designing and building AI-enabled solutions that solve real business problems
• Developing software and automation using Python
• Working heavily with AWS across cloud services, deployment and platform design
• Using infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
• Helping shape secure, scalable and reliable AI platforms
• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements and turn them into solutions
• Contributing to engineering standards, architecture decisions and delivery approach
• Keeping pace with emerging AI tools and identifying where they can add practical value

What we are looking for

You do not need to come from a pure AI background, but you do need strong engineering fundamentals.

Ideally, you will have:

• Strong AWS experience
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure as code tools
• A background across software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering or DevOps
• An interest in AI, machine learning, LLMs or automation
• Experience building secure, scalable systems
• The ability to work with stakeholders and translate problems into technical solutions
• A pragmatic mindset: someone who can experiment, but still build properly for production

Interested?

If you are a Python, AWS or cloud engineer based in Northern Ireland and want to move into more AI-focused work, this could be a very strong next step.