Lead Software Engineer

Salary: £57,000 - 97,000 per year

Requirements:

• We may require you to be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with our government clients from time to time.
• You have deep expertise across the application lifecycle and set high standards for system integration and end-user software quality.
• You can design large-scale, complex software ecosystems and justify critical architectural trade-offs in high-stakes environments.
• You define production readiness standards and establish application deployment protocols across diverse client engagements.
• You can translate high-level commercial strategy into technical roadmaps and ensure AI workstreams are accurately estimated and integrated.
• You can architecturally direct products leveraging autonomous AI agents so they are robust and effectively integrated.
• You are a confident communicator who can convey complex technical roadmaps and architectural risks to commercial partners and executive leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Set the technical direction for complex software projects so architectural decisions support long-term product and client goals.
• Drive the development of shared software libraries and microservices that accelerate delivery across multiple client engagements.
• Oversee the delivery of large-scale AI-powered platforms while defining project roadmaps in high-risk environments.
• Facilitate alignment between ML, Data Science, and DevOps crafts so agentic software is built on a reliable foundation.
• Manage and coach a distributed team of engineers, setting development goals aligned with organisational growth.
• Establish enterprise-wide standards for code delivery, testing, and system documentation across the software engineering craft.
• Lead hiring processes for the software engineering craft to continue building a world-class technical team.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• DevOps
• Support
• Security
• microservices

More:

We established Faculty in 2014 because we believed AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we have worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. We do not chase hype cycles; we innovate, build and deploy responsible AI that moves the needle, bringing deep technical, product and delivery expertise to clients across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our Public Services Business Unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good, from informing strategic government decisions to optimising our NHS and reducing bureaucratic backlogs. We are proud to lead on some of the most impactful work in the sector. This is a full-time Lead AI/ML Engineer role based in London, with hybrid working, flexible working, and the option to discuss part-time hours. Some of our standout benefits include unlimited annual leave, private healthcare and dental, enhanced parental leave, family-friendly flexibility, Sanctus coaching, and hybrid working. Our recruitment ethos is to grow the best team, not the most similar one, and we strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We review every application with a human and are happy for candidates to use AI for research and interview preparation, but not during live interviews.

last updated 36 week of 2026