Senior Platform Engineer & AI Systems Lead — Hybrid

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

Job summary

8th Light in London seeks a Principal Engineer to lead platform strategy and delivery for client engagements, often one to two projects per year, with a hybrid London-based role in Waterloo. You will mentor teams, architect scalable systems, and drive modernization across diverse languages and stacks.

You bring 10+ years of consulting experience, deep technical and product thinking, and a track record of delivering production-grade software and AI-enabled solutions in complex environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of proven, varied project experience.
• Trusted expert and leader guiding ambiguous initiatives.
• Strong consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly build trust with clients and demonstrate technical expertise.
• Drive platform engineering work at the client level.
• Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types.
• Advise on architecture, scalability and evolution.
• Collaborate on ML lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment and monitoring.

Skills

Platform engineering

Data engineering

AI systems

Architectural leadership

DevOps

Tools

Databricks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

CrewAI

AutoGen

n8n

Job description

8th Light in London seeks a Principal Engineer to lead platform strategy and delivery for client engagements, often one to two projects per year, with a hybrid London-based role in Waterloo. You will mentor teams, architect scalable systems, and drive modernization across diverse languages and stacks.

You bring 10+ years of consulting experience, deep technical and product thinking, and a track record of delivering production-grade software and AI-enabled solutions in complex environments.