Full Stack Engineer

Role Title: Full Stack Engineer

Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026

Location: Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £533.60 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose/summary

Our Client is seeking an experienced Full Stack Engineer - Tech & Delivery Lead to lead the design, build, and delivery of an end-to-end internal AI-enabled helpdesk and workflow automation platform.

This role combines hands-on full-stack engineering with technical leadership and delivery accountability, owning solutions across web UI, Back End services, APIs, AI/agent orchestration, and enterprise integrations. The successful candidate will lead technical delivery within an agile team, ensuring solutions meet our client's standards for security, resilience, scalability, and compliance, while delivering tangible business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Act as the technical lead for the platform, defining end-to-end solution design across Front End, Back End, APIs, and AI/agent workflows.
• Make architectural decisions aligned to our client's technology standards, cloud strategy, and engineering best practices.
• Provide hands-on guidance, code reviews, and mentoring to engineers within the delivery team.
• Ensure non-functional requirements are met, including security, performance, observability, and resilience.

Full - Stack Engineering

• Design and build user-facing applications for employees, support agents, and administrators.
• Develop Front End, Back End, and API layers supporting chat, ticket submission, case management, status tracking, and escalation.
• Build and enhance AI/LLM-powered agent workflows to automate repetitive IT helpdesk tasks (eg password resets, account unlocks, access requests, knowledge-based troubleshooting).
• Implement prompt flows, guardrails, human-in-the-loop mechanisms, fallback logic, and error handling suitable for enterprise use.

Delivery Ownership

• Own delivery from discovery and design through development, testing, and deployment.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, and business stakeholders to plan, prioritise, and deliver incremental value.
• Drive agile delivery rhythms (sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, retrospectives).
• Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and technical debt.

Integration & Enterprise Enablement

• Integrate solutions with enterprise platforms such as ticketing, identity, collaboration, and ITSM systems.
• Ensure secure integration patterns including authentication, RBAC, auditing, and logging.
• Support production releases and live service handover, including documentation and operational readiness.

Governance & Stakeholder Engagement

• Ensure adherence to our client's governance, security, and risk management requirements.
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering and delivery practices across the team.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on full-stack engineering experience with modern Front End and Back End frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python, Node.js, or Java, and experience building production-grade APIs and services.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery in an agile environment.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs, workflow engines, and enterprise web applications.
• Working knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt engineering, agent/tool-calling patterns, and responsible AI implementation.
• Solid understanding of security fundamentals including authentication, authorisation, secure coding, and auditability.
• Experience working in regulated or large enterprise environments.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience integrating with ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, or similar ITSM platforms.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams or Slack integrations.
• Background in building internal employee tools or enterprise support platforms.
• Experience operating in financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.

What This Role Offers

• Opportunity to combine deep technical contribution with leadership and delivery ownership.
• Exposure to AI-driven automation at enterprise scale within a global financial institution.
• Influence over technical direction, engineering standards, and delivery outcomes.
• Work on high-impact internal platforms used by thousands of our client's employees.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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