Applied AI & Platform Engineer

The Role

Key Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end workflow implementations from requirements to production: APIs, services, orchestration, and integrations
• Integrate AI capabilities into products and internal tools (LLM calls, tool/function calling, guardrails, evals, response structuring)
• Design and implement scoped agent workflows with clear boundaries, tools, permissions, fallbacks, and measurable outcomes
• Collaborate with vendors to deliver ROI-focused use-cases: define interfaces, validate delivery quality, and productionize outputs
• Establish strong observability: structured logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and runbooks
• Partner with data teams on Data Lake access patterns, workflows, metadata, governance, and reliability

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5-10 years professional software engineering experience; strong Python (services, APIs, testing)
• Cloud infrastructure experience (Azure preferred), operating production systems; cloud security fluency (identity, RBAC, secrets management, logging/auditing)
• CI/CD experience (Git-based pipelines, automated tests, deployment gates, rollback awareness)
• Strong testing, documentation, and operational discipline

Preferred skills & Experience

• Data engineering fundamentals (schemas, pipelines, quality checks) within governed environments
• Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform), containerization (Docker), and API management patterns
• Agentic patterns (tool use, orchestration, state management) and practical guardrails
• Microsoft Graph and/or strong enterprise identity/API permissioning patterns
• What we can offer
• New joiners are supported by induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this.
• We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression.
• We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.
• Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.
• Given our client base you ll be working on career-defining (and often news-worthy) work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.

Benefits

• We offer a whole host of benefits and reward including:
• Competitive salary (depends on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (company contribution: 5% of annual salary).
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

About Teneo