Staff Agentic Engineer

John Lewis plc is hiring a Staff Agentic Engineer to work with business users to identify operational problems and opportunities to improve business processes. The role uses agentic AI, software engineering, architecture and data analysis to explore solutions, prototype improvements and inform architecture or product roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Working directly with business users as part of a small team to understand poorly defined operational business problems and to identify opportunities to radically improve business processes
• Using your excellent communication and influencing skills to quickly build rapport with business colleagues and to influence key decision makers
• Using your excellent systems thinking, agentic AI and data analysis skills to work collaboratively with business colleagues to understand underlying business problems and friction points
• Using your excellent Agentic AI, Software Engineering and Architecture skills to identify and explore options for addressing the most important business issues
• Exploring short term solutions which drive immediate business value by creating and iterating prototypes in close collaboration with business users
• Using your insights into how key parts of the business operate to inform architecture and/or product roadmaps