Lead AI Enabled Software/DevOps Engineer

What You'll Be Doing - Provide technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps engineering teams - Set architectural direction for API-first design, system integration, and platform enablement for AI - Lead…

Pay rate £700 – £850/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 25 September 2026

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What You'll Be Doing

- Provide technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps engineering teams

- Set architectural direction for API-first design, system integration, and platform enablement for AI

- Lead the evolution of legacy or existing applications towards modern, service-based and API-driven architectures

- Define and guide integration patterns between applications, platforms, and AI services

- Make informed decisions on when and how emerging integration approaches (e.g. protocols such as MCP) should be applied as part of broader system design

- Work closely with architects, product teams, data scientists, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions

- Ensure solutions meet appropriate standards for security, resilience, performance, and operability

- Anticipate and manage architectural and operational risks associated with AI-enabled systems

- Champion strong engineering practices across software development, DevOps, and platform engineering

Your Experience

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

- A strong background as a Senior or Lead Software Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, or similar hands-on technical leadership role

- Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including system design, clean code, testing, and maintainability

- Strong experience designing and delivering API-driven and microservice-based systems

- Proven ability to modernise or integrate legacy applications into modern software and platform architectures

- Solid development experience in TypeScript and Python

- Experience working across software delivery, infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational environments

- Confidence providing technical leadership and architectural direction without relying on formal authority

- Ability to balance innovation with pragmatism in complex, production environments

In Return

You'll play a critical role in shaping how AI is integrated into enterprise software platforms, working at the intersection of architecture, delivery, and operational reality.

This is an opportunity to lead technically, influence system evolution, and build AI-enabled platforms that are robust, scalable, and fit for real-world use.

As an organisation and as a team, Guidant Global are committed to fostering an equitable, diverse and inclusive workplace, where every employee and contractor feels valued and empowered throughout their time with us.

We actively seek to recruit talent from all backgrounds, and to draw on a rich blend of experiences, perspectives and creativity. We believe that when people are respected and included, they are motivated to bring their best and whole selves to work, leading to innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes for all parties.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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