Senior Automation and AI Engineer

Pax8 Philippines Inc.; West of England, Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pax8 is seeking a Senior Automation and AI Engineer to lead production automation and AI initiatives. You’ll shape architecture, establish quality standards, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable solutions across a global team.

This senior IC role combines hands-on delivery with technical leadership, design reviews, and collaboration with multiple technology functions. Hybrid/remote options across the UK and Europe, with quarterly team gatherings.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience building and engineering automation and AI solutions.
• Experience contributing to product or engineering teams with technical ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation and AI solutions that solve business and partner challenges.
• Establish technical patterns, architecture principles and quality standards for secure delivery.
• Create automated cybersecurity, policy and technical-feasibility checks for scalable assurance.
• Review AI solutions and provide practical guidance before production.
• Build monitoring approaches to show health, quality and security over time.
• Mentor engineers and improve capability across the team.
• Collaborate with technology functions, builders, and business leaders.
• Translate complex technology into clear decisions and useful outcomes.
• Keep pace with emerging technologies and evolving cybersecurity expectations.
• Contribute to team learning through documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in quarterly team offsites.

Skills

Automation

Artificial Intelligence

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Security

Architecture principles

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

n8n

Claude

Microsoft Power Platform

Power Automate

Power Apps

Copilot Studio

Dataverse

Fabric

Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Foundry

Job description

Senior Automation and AI Engineer (m/f/d)

Bristol/Farnborough UK | Zwolle Netherlands | Riga Latvia | Stockholm Sweden | Frankfurt Germany

Hybrid and Remote options

Pax8 is hiring a Senior Automation and AI Engineer across the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Latvia, Germany and Sweden to raise the technical maturity, security and scalability of the automation and artificial intelligence solutions powering our global business.

Build what great looks like:

This is an opportunity to become the technical quality leader behind the Rapid Innovation Team's growing portfolio of automation and artificial intelligence solutions. You'll combine hands-on engineering with architecture, technical assurance and mentoring, helping us move from manual reviews to automated, continuously monitored controls.

As Pax8 invests further in artificial intelligence, you'll grow alongside emerging technology, shape new engineering methods and influence how secure, scalable solutions are delivered across the business. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant ownership, visibility and room to create a lasting technical legacy.

Bring your ideas to a growing global team:

At Pax8, technology is personal. We combine the energy and flexibility of a growing business with the reach of an international cloud marketplace. You'll join a collaborative environment where curiosity, candid communication, shared learning and ownership matter.

Discover more about the Pax8 Marketplace and explore our culture, values and people.

What you'll shape and deliver:

• Design and build automation and artificial intelligence solutions that solve real business and partner challenges.
• Establish the technical patterns, architecture principles and quality standards that enable teams to build securely and consistently.
• Create automated cybersecurity, policy and technical-feasibility checks, replacing repetitive manual reviews with scalable assurance.
• Review artificial intelligence solutions and provide practical guidance before they move into production.
• Build monitoring approaches that make the health, quality and security of delivered solutions visible over time.
• Act as a trusted technical escalation point, helping engineers navigate complex automation, artificial intelligence and architecture decisions.
• Remain hands‑on with delivery while mentoring colleagues and improving capability across the wider team.
• Collaborate with various technology functions, builders, and business leaders across Pax8.
• Support advisory and enablement activity by translating complex technology into clear decisions and useful outcomes.
• Keep pace with emerging technologies and evolving cybersecurity expectations, applying what matters rather than following trends for their own sake.
• Contribute to team learning through documentation, reusable models, coaching and practical knowledge-sharing.
• Take part in occasional team gatherings, including a quarterly team offsite.

The impact you'll make:

Your work will help ensure that every automation and artificial intelligence solution is built with quality, security and long‑term sustainability in mind. You'll give teams clearer technical guardrails, reduce manual assurance work and create a scalable model for checking the health of what we build.

Just as importantly, you'll help other engineers recognise what great looks like, ask better technical questions and deliver with greater confidence.

You could be a great fit if you bring:

• Substantial hands‑on experience developing and architecting production technology solutions for an internal or external user base.
• Proven experience contributing to product or engineering teams and taking technical ownership beyond your individual assignments.
• The ability to operate as a technical lead while remaining comfortable building and delivering solutions yourself.
• Demonstrated knowledge of automation platforms and agent‑building technologies – experience with tools such as n8n, Claude, Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, Fabric, Microsoft Lists, or Microsoft Foundry would be valuable.
• Confidence designing applications, automated workflows, artificial intelligence solutions, reports or operational dashboards.
• A practical understanding of secure engineering, technical assurance and architecture principles.
• The ability to distinguish efficient, maintainable engineering from solutions that introduce avoidable complexity.
• Experience working with stakeholders to uncover needs, ask the right questions and take solutions from initial scope through delivery.
• Clear English communication, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions to different audiences.
• A structured approach to competing priorities, detail and changing requirements.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and helping shape methods that are still evolving.
• Hands‑on artificial intelligence or automation delivery experience. Experience in a growing or start‑up‑style environment wo