Engineering Architect
2 days ago
Bath
As our new Engineering Architect, you will own and evolve the technical foundations that underpin product and service delivery, including engineering standards, development frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, testing harnesses, observability, and operational practices. Your focus will be on enabling a fast-moving, AI-first delivery team to consistently deliver high-quality, scalable, and supportable solutions without needing to rebuild core foundations for every delivery cycle. In this varied role, you will: • own and version technical foundations across all seven harness dimensions (Security, performance, coding style, UI/UX baselines, logging and observability, testing) so that every deliverable inherits secure, observable and tested defaults, • build and maintain the shared ADO CI/CD pipelines and release governance so that standards are enforced automatically, and DORA metrics are produced from the pipeline itself, • own the light-touch technical governance model - automated gates over committee review, • ensure observability is instrumented from the first commit through to live running so that everything the team ships can be operated and handed over to a receiving product team, • contribute hands-on as a full-stack builder inside each delivery's time box so that the harness stays credible and drift is caught in days rather than at cycle end, • own the design and hands-on running of the delivery stack end to end - application architecture, containerisation, virtualisation, networking and deployment topology - so that what the team builds can be stood up, scaled and supported in the Azure estate without external dependency, • shape deliveries as one of three leads, testing technical feasibility and setting the no-gos, so that committed work stays inside its appetite, • represent the team's technical position in assurance, security and enterprise architecture conversations, • proactively track industry trends, emerging tools and agentic engineering practice, and self-initiate the learning needed to apply them - trialling promising techniques and approaches in cooldown and sharing what works back into the harness, rules files and skills library. We are looking for: • deep, current full stack engineering capability with hands-on delivery in an Azure and Azure DevOps (ADO) ecosystem using infrastructure as code approaches, • strong practical coding experience in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with the fluency to work across back-end services, front-end interfaces and automation scripting, • sound stack design judgement, with working knowledge of containerisation, virtualisation and networking sufficient to design, deploy and troubleshoot applications across Azure environments, • proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, release governance and DORA-based delivery measurement, • strong grounding in security (secret management, dependency and static analysis scanning, least-privilege IAM), observability (structured logging, tracing and metrics) and test and evaluation automation, • practical experience of AI-first, agentic delivery - rules files, known-good templates, curated skills libraries and evaluation harnesses for AI-generated output, • ability to codify standards as machine-readable scaffolding rather than documentation, and to balance light-touch governance against delivery speed, • credibility to represent the team's technical position with enterprise architecture, security and assurance functions, • experience designing and delivering production-grade AI software systems across different domains, • proven expertise in designing and/or implementing generative AI systems in production, including agentic systems, RAG pipelines, tool-use patterns, and model adaptation strategies, • practical experience in retrieval and knowledge systems, • breadth of knowledge across modern AI technologies, including generative models, deep learning, and predictive ML., • A combined pension contribution of up to 20%., • Career progression and professional development opportunities., • 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service., • The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year., • The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions)., • A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs., • Life assurance of up to eight times your salary., • The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions)., • Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers., • One paid volunteering day each year., • Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements., • Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform., • Support from trained mental health first aiders., • A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us. YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. The UK companies include: • Wessex Water - one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West, • YTL Developments - a major UK developer currently redeveloping a 450-acre former airfield into an award-winning, exciting mix of houses, apartments, schools, commercial space, restaurants and hotels, to make a truly sustainable new community, • YTL Construction UK - a top 20 UK contractor providing fully integrated services to infrastructure, residential, commercial, industry, energy and environmental sectors, • YTL Live - the development and operation of an entertainment complex that includes a 20,000 capacity arena, conferencing and exhibition space, • plus a number of other retail, environmental and specialist businesses. Our people tell us that YTL UK is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have a unique opportunity to develop and progress your career within such a diverse group. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion - with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please inform a member of our Recruitment team. #J-18808-Ljbffr