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About the Role

As a go-to technologist and strategist within 8th Light, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, while continuing to deepen your and our collective domain expertise over the course of your career with us.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly build trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives
• Drive platform engineering work at the client level, connecting long-term technical vision to what ships
• Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types, connecting long-term vision to what ships
• Work pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Advise clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
• Collaborate on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Drive innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions
• Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulate and document outcomes and drive forward action items
• Contribute to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values
• Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
• Build your network and maintain relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain
• Coach client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices
• Influence client CTOs and executive decisions
• Plan and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization
• Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping
• Facilitate retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress
• Contribute to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes
• Demonstrate leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development
• Bring depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices
• Apply architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale

Requirements

• Shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years
• Trusted expert and leader, often called upon to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions
• Bring a blend of deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking that drives measurable and impactful outcomes
• Built and shipped production-grade platforms: the reusable foundations, tools, infrastructure, and workflows that help other teams shift faster and more reliably
• Taken AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, with a strong understanding of infrastructure, authentication, and observability
• Delivered on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, and client industries
• Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served
• Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL
• Actively experimented with AI development tools and translated that experimentation into faster, higher-quality delivery for your teams
• A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry
• Built or integrated AI/ML features into products and systems, including recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, RAG pipelines, and agents
• Successfully led modernization and replatforming efforts to align legacy systems with short and long-term business needs
• Led and delivered solutions to architecture-level problems including scalability, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and observability
• Facilitated alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders to move initiatives forward through ambiguity and complexity
• Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices
• Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs
• Actively sought out and effectively given feedback

Skills

• Platform engineering
• Data Engineering
• Databricks
• Delivering production agentic systems
• RAG pipelines
• Vector search
• Agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and n8n
• DevSecOps & DevOps
• MLOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
• Java
• C#/.NET
• Python
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• React
• Go
• Ruby
• Scala
• R
• SQL
• AI development tools
• Testing strategies
• Observability
• Fault tolerance
• Secure engineering practices
• Scalable system design
• Modular architecture
• Platform-oriented development
• Product-oriented development
• Architectural patterns

Location

• Waterloo, London, England, UK

Work Type

• Hybrid (1 day per week in office)

Experience Level

• 10+ years

Salary/Compensations

• £92,818-£116,122 GBP

Benefits

• Robust L&D programme featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform
• Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development
• Coworking support for our global team
• 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees

About the Company

• At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.
• Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organisations from early-stage startups to the world's largest companies.
• We take on hard software challenges and turn them into durable results.
• We build agentic products, the platforms they run on, and the engineering and design at every layer.
• Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we’re truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking.
• 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work.
• We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.
• If this kind of work and our kind of people energises you, you’ve found the right place.
• We are a distributed team across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle.
• Employees working from our London hub follow a hybrid model, which includes a minimum of one day per week in our Waterloo Office. This co-working day is designed to encourage collaboration and further strengthen our community.
• In most cases, our consulting engagements do not require travel.

Equal Opportunity

• Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to keep learning and growing together.
• We have a proud tradition of hiring talented colleagues with real-world career experiences.