Staff Engineer - Agentic AI, Cloud & Retail Tech (Hybrid)

John Lewis plc; Bracknell; Hybride; GBP 63 000 - 115 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work model

Flexible working

Résumé du poste

John Lewis Partnership in Bracknell is seeking a senior software engineer to join a hybrid team delivering cloud-enabled systems that support the retailer’s diverse channels. You will work with Java or Kotlin, agentic AI tooling, and modern architecture to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

The role emphasizes strong collaboration with business users, data-driven decision making, and the ability to influence stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Java/Kotlin

Agentic AI

Data analysis

Cloud platforms

GCP

Communication

Architectural skills

Snowflake

Outils

Java/Kotlin

Description du poste

John Lewis Partnership in Bracknell is seeking a senior software engineer to join a hybrid team delivering cloud-enabled systems that support the retailer’s diverse channels. You will work with Java or Kotlin, agentic AI tooling, and modern architecture to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

The role emphasizes strong collaboration with business users, data-driven decision making, and the ability to influence stakeholders.