AI Platform Engineer

Hi All,

I am looking for an AI Platform Engineer to work for a major bank in Sheffield.

This will be 3 days onsite and 2 days from home.

This is £600 - 650 Umbrella.

Senior AI Platform Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer to help

design, develop, and expand our internal AI platform, supporting cybersecurity

analysts through intelligent workflows, automation, integrations, and

AI-assisted capabilities.

The role involves building scalable AI-driven services,

integrating with enterprise security technologies, and contributing to the

evolution of a modern platform that combines software engineering, cloud

services, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex technical

problems, can work across multiple technologies, and is comfortable learning

new tools and frameworks as the platform evolves.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain AI-driven platform capabilities.

Build scalable backend services and APIs.

Develop workflow orchestration and automation capabilities.

Design integrations with enterprise security and operational platforms.

Build connectors to third-party products and cloud services.

Develop reusable components and SDKs that can be shared across multiple applications.

Contribute to platform architecture, design discussions, and technical direction.

Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine how they can be incorporated into the

platform.

Work closely with security analysts to understand operational challenges and

translate them into technical solutions.

Produce maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code.

Participate in technical reviews and architectural discussions.

Required Skills

Software Engineering

Strong software engineering fundamentals.

Experience designing modular, maintainable systems.

Experience building REST APIs and backend services.

Experience developing reusable libraries or frameworks.

Experience working with asynchronous and event-driven systems.

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Development

Strong Experience in one or more modern software development

technologies, such as:

Python

TypeScript

Go Experience learning new languages, frameworks, and technologies quickly is considered equally valuable.

Artificial Intelligence

Experience working with modern AI technologies, including some of the following:

Large Language Models (LLMs)

AI agents

Retrieval

Augmented Generation (RAG)

Prompt engineering

Structured

outputs

AI workflow orchestration

Model evaluation

AI governance and safety

Experience with multiple AI providers is desirable.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Experience with cloud-native development, such as Azure or

AWS, including:

Storage services

Authentication and identity

Queues or messaging

Serverless or container-based workloads

Monitoring and observability

Secure application development

API & Integration Development

Experience integrating with third-party platforms using REST APIs, SDKs, or webhooks.

Experience building integrations with enterprise systems is highly desirable.

Security

Good understanding of cybersecurity concepts, such as:

SIEM

SOAR

Identity and Access Management

Threat Detection

Incident Response

Authentication and Authorization

Experience with offensive security techniques, adversary

emulation, or penetration testing is beneficial but not required.

Desirable Experience

Experience with one or more of the following is beneficial:

Splunk

Microsoft

Sentinel

CrowdStrike

Microsoft

Defender

ServiceNow

SOAR platforms

MITRE

ATT&CK

Detection

Engineering

Security

Operations (SOC)

Nice to Have

Experience building AI platforms rather than standalone AI applications.

Experience designing workflow engines or orchestration systems.

Experience developing SDKs or internal developer platforms.

Experience with vector search or semantic search.

Experience working with structured data pipelines.

Experience designing scalable cloud architectures.

Experience contributing to technical strategy and architecture.

Personal Attributes

We're looking for someone who:

Is naturally curious and enjoys learning new technologies.

Can work independently while collaborating effectively with others.

Takes ownership of technical problems from concept through implementation.

Thinks beyond individual features and considers long-term platform design.

Is pragmatic and balances innovation with maintainability.

Communicates technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will help evolve the platform by:

• Designing robust, reusable platform capabilities.
• Building high-quality integrations with enterprise technologies.
• Delivering AI-enabled workflows that solve real operational problems.
• Contributing to the long-term architecture and technical direction of the platform.
• Helping establish engineering standards and best practices as the platform grows.

Job Title: AI Platform Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Rate/Salary: 600.00 - 650.00 GBP Daily

Job Type: Contract

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