AI Staff Platform Engineer

Who You Are

• A highly analytical and detail-oriented engineer, able to decompose complex problems and design scalable, platform-centric solutions.
• Deeply experienced in platform engineering across Azure, including APIs, API gateways (e.g. APIM), integrations, lakehouse architectures (e.g. Databricks), model serving, and cloud-native services.
• A strong technical leader, producing clear, high-quality designs and setting standards for engineering excellence and best practice.
• An effective communicator, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear outcomes for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership-driven, delivering end-to-end solutions while promoting reusability, automation, and codified engineering practices.

What You Will Do

• Design and build scalable platform capabilities across Azure to support AI use cases (Agents, Agentic workflows, RAG, LLMs), including APIs, integrations, and model serving layers.
• Produce high-quality technical designs and guide implementation, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable, and aligned to architectural standards.
• Develop reusable, platform-first components (e.g. AI gateways, orchestration services, shared APIs) to drive consistency and accelerate delivery.
• Optimise performance, scalability, and cost across AI workloads, leveraging automation, policy-driven controls, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate across architecture, engineering, and product teams to evolve platform capabilities, improve ways of working, and enable faster adoption of AI at scale.

What’s in it for you

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

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