Senior Data Engineer, Agentic Apps (Remote-Friendly)

Graphcore Early Careers; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave

Employee assistance programme

Snacks & barista bar at Bristol office

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a Staff Data Engineer – Agentic Applications to design, build and operate Python-based data pipelines and business applications. You will work with AI agents, trusted data and stakeholder APIs to automate workflows and improve decision‑making across Graphcore’s teams.

You will collaborate with analysts, engineers and product teams, delivering secure, scalable backend services and reusable data models while guiding junior engineers and establishing governance and best

Qualifications

• Strong experience building production-grade data pipelines in Python.
• Experience designing backend services and APIs for data-driven apps.
• Practical work with AI agents and LLM-powered workflows.
• Proficient in AWS data services and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Build business-facing applications. Design, develop and operate production‑ready Python web applications that help business teams access trusted data, complete tasks and improve operational workflows.
• Develop agentic capabilities. Build applications and workflows that connect AI agents to approved tools, APIs, datasets and business systems, with clear boundaries on what agents can access and do.
• Translate business needs into working solutions. Partner with analysts, engineers and business stakeholders to understand user needs, identify automation opportunities and move prototypes to production.
• Deliver end-to-end applications where appropriate. Use AI‑assisted coding tools to build front ends and backend services with emphasis on quality, testing and security.
• Enable business‑owned front ends. Provide APIs, templates and coaching so teams can work with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Establish clear ownership and support arrangements. Define responsibilities for changes, testing, releases and ongoing support.
• Build secure, reusable backend services. Design APIs enforcing authentication, authorization and data governance.
• Engineer reliable agentic workflows. Implement monitoring, audit trails and safe handling of failures.
• Maintain strong data foundations. Build Python batch/streaming pipelines and reusable data models.
• Own key platform components. Use AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Aurora, Athena, Glue, Redshift.
• Enable safe, repeatable delivery. Implement CI/CD, testing and deployment processes.
• Improve resilience and performance. Add error handling and recovery mechanisms.
• Apply engineering and governance standards. Contribute to data quality and security practices.
• Provide technical leadership. Review designs, mentor engineers and raise quality.
• Improve shared capabilities. Enhance platform patterns and roadmaps.

Skills

Python

AWS

APIs

AI agents

Data modeling

Tools

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Glue

Lambda

S3

Job description

Graphcore is seeking a Staff Data Engineer – Agentic Applications to design, build and operate Python-based data pipelines and business applications. You will work with AI agents, trusted data and stakeholder APIs to automate workflows and improve decision‑making across Graphcore’s teams.

You will collaborate with analysts, engineers and product teams, delivering secure, scalable backend services and reusable data models while guiding junior engineers and establishing governance and best