Staff Engineer — Agentic AI, Cloud & Data Platforms

John Lewis plc; City of Westminster; Híbrido; GBP 104.000 - 127.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

John Lewis plc in London is seeking an experienced software engineer to join a hybrid role blending home and office work. You will work on complex retail technology, collaborating with business users to translate needs into scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes Agentic AI, cloud platforms (GCP, Snowflake), and modern Java/Kotlin development in a large commercial environment. Expect a competitive salary up to £115,000, a 35-hour week, and the chance to influence critical business processes.

Formación

• Extensive experience of software engineering using Java (or Kotlin) in a complex commercial environment.
• Experience of Agentic Engineering including working with agentic coding environments and automated engineering workflows.
• Experience of building & implementing agentic systems using agent orchestration & frameworks and advanced prompt/context engineering.
• Understanding of state & memory Management, deterministic guardrails & evaluation (Evals), tool & API integration, agentic protocols including MCP, A2A, UCP.
• Experience of working with cloud based data platforms (we use Snowflake).
• Experience of deploying/running solutions on cloud based infrastructure (we use GCP).
• Proven ability to translate raw data into actionable insights that drive problem-solving
• Excellent communicator and influencer with the ability to question and challenge stakeholders to identify the root causes of problems.

Responsabilidades

• Working directly with business users as part of a small team to understand poorly defined operational business problems and to identify opportunities to radically improve business processes.
• Using your excellent communication and influencing skills to quickly build rapport with business colleagues and to influence key decision makers.
• Using your excellent systems thinking, agentic AI and data analysis skills to work collaboratively with business colleagues to understand underlying business problems and friction points.
• Using your excellent Agentic AI, Software Engineering and Architecture skills to identify and explore options for addressing the most important business issues.
• Exploring short term solutions which drive immediate business value by creating and iterating prototypes in close collaboration with business users, Using your insights into how key parts of the business operate to inform architecture and/or product roadmaps.

Conocimientos

Java

Kotlin

Agentic Engineering

Agentic AI

Cloud platforms

Snowflake

GCP

Data insights

Communication

Herramientas

Snowflake

GCP

Descripción del empleo

John Lewis plc in London is seeking an experienced software engineer to join a hybrid role blending home and office work. You will work on complex retail technology, collaborating with business users to translate needs into scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes Agentic AI, cloud platforms (GCP, Snowflake), and modern Java/Kotlin development in a large commercial environment. Expect a competitive salary up to £115,000, a 35-hour week, and the chance to influence critical business processes.