Senior GenAI Platform Engineer: Backend & AI Solutions

Grant Thornton UK; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Reduced hours

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Job summary

Grant Thornton UK in the North of England seeks a Senior Engineer for the Generative AI Platform. This hands-on individual contributor role builds and operates production-grade GenAI solutions that deliver measurable client value.

You will own end-to-end delivery, design scalable backend services and integrations, and apply engineering judgment to choose native platform extensions or bespoke engineering, using Azure and MCP tooling.

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning delivery in a team-based model, with a track record of shipping production software.
• Strong backend and integration engineering skills using Python or C# .NET.
• Judgement in choosing native platform solutions versus custom engineering.
• Familiarity with Azure and Microsoft 365; experience with LLM integration patterns, MCP tooling and AI-enabled development environments is an advantage.
• Comfortable using GenAI tools such as Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery, translating business needs into technical design and building production-ready solutions.
• Develop and maintain backend services, API integrations, MCP server builds and data connections.
• Apply engineering judgment to decide when to solve natively within the platform versus bespoke external engineering.
• Design architecture, data flow and integrations, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate coding and operationalise solutions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

C# .NET

Azure

LLM integration

GenAI tools

Copilot/Claude/ChatGPT

Tools

MCP tooling

AI-enabled development environments

Job description

Grant Thornton UK in the North of England seeks a Senior Engineer for the Generative AI Platform. This hands-on individual contributor role builds and operates production-grade GenAI solutions that deliver measurable client value.

You will own end-to-end delivery, design scalable backend services and integrations, and apply engineering judgment to choose native platform extensions or bespoke engineering, using Azure and MCP tooling.