Engineering
ROLE DETAILS
Level: Lead
Start Date: December
Duration: 6 months
Day Rate: Dependent on experience
Weekly hours: 5 days/ week
Location: Hybrid, 2 days a week in London
We're looking for a Systems Engineer / Technical Architect to help us reimagine a function of government as part of an agentic ecosystem.
You'll join a small multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers and engineers, working closely with civil servants and the department's own technical teams.
You'll own working out what the new system is. What are the constituent pieces, how do they fit together, and what’s needed to make it secure, accountable and auditable? The role suits someone who can sketch a target architecture on Monday and make it real with a prototype by Friday.
In this role you will
- Design the target architecture based high-level requirements and constraints, agentic capabilities and best practices
- Recommend approaches to new challenges such as delegated authority and permissions
- Set out security, resilience and threat risks and mitigations, including agent-specific risks such as prompt injection and automated abuse
- Design and build the components that make the system accountable and auditable, such as audit logging and permission checks
- Identify and test the riskiest technical assumptions
- Build working prototypes and PoCs with the engineers
- Produce clear architecture decision records, diagrams and patterns that teams can reuse
- Engage with the client’s architects, security and assurance experts to get input and agreement on the right approach