# Software Engineer - Agentic Engineering

**Company**: John Lewis & Waitrose Limited
**Location**: Bracknell
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £62,900.00 - £115,000.00 Annual
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our Agentic Engineering team. You will work directly with business users to understand operational business problems and identify opportunities to improve business processes.

**Responsibilities:**

- Collaborate with business users to understand poorly defined operational business problems

- Use excellent communication and influencing skills to build rapport with business colleagues and influence key decision makers

- Apply systems thinking, agentic AI, and data analysis skills to understand underlying business problems and friction points

- Identify and explore options for addressing business issues using Agentic AI, Software Engineering, and Architecture skills

- Develop short-term solutions driving immediate business value by creating and iterating prototypes

- Inform architecture and/or product roadmaps using insights into key business operations

**Requirements:**

- 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 and implementing agentic systems using agent orchestration and frameworks

- Understanding of state and memory management, deterministic guardrails and evaluation, tool and API integration, agentic protocols

- Experience of working with cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake) and deploying solutions on cloud-based infrastructure (GCP)

- Proven ability to translate raw data into actionable insights driving problem-solving

- Excellent communicator and influencer with the ability to question and challenge stakeholders

**Desirable skills:**

- Data science techniques to extract actionable insights and meaningful patterns from raw data

- Experience of using systems thinking techniques to solve complex, dynamic problems

- Domain knowledge of retail

**What we offer:**

- Expected salary: up to £115,000 (depending on experience)

- Hybrid working role, primarily working from home and our Bracknell Office

- Flexible working arrangements

**How to apply:** The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Agentic Engineering
- Snowflake
- GCP
- Data Analysis
- Communication
- Influencing

### Nice to have
- Data Science
- Systems Thinking
- Retail Domain Knowledge

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