Software Engineering Context Engineer - Public Sector Professional London, GB

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. Our culture of evolution centres on long term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer customers locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

We Offer:

• Many training opportunities, from classroom to e learning, mentoring and coaching programmes, and the chance to gain industry recognised certifications.
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to help you grow your career with us.
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year.
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential part of our culture through policies, processes and Employee Champion teams.
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome.
• Internal recognition programmes for peer to peer appreciation and from managers to employees.
• Tools and policies to support work life balance: flexible working approaches, sabbatical programmes, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• Additional benefits: 25 days holiday (plus public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5 % of your base salary paid monthly.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead application development across VM, TPF, Microfocus COBOL, Tandem, and HP 3000 platforms.
• Implement Clean Architecture and Clean Code principles in C# and TypeScript solutions.
• Apply AI/LLM techniques, such as prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), to enhance applications.
• Analyse and validate outputs for relevance, accuracy and risk mitigation.
• Mentor junior developers and review their code for quality assurance.

Required Education

None

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong foundation in software development with C# and TypeScript.
• Experience with AI/LLM concepts (e.g. prompt engineering, RAG).
• Analytical mindset for assessing sufficiency, relevance, completeness, and freshness, and mitigating risks such as hallucinations.
• Focus on Clean Architecture and Clean Code principles.
• Experience with one or more enterprise platforms: VM, TPF, Microfocus COBOL, Tandem, HP 3000.
• Deep understanding of Clean Architecture and Clean Code practices.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Experience integrating AI capabilities into legacy enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with Microfocus COBOL optimisation techniques.
• Background in performance tuning on mid range enterprise platforms.
• Knowledge of advanced AI hallucination prevention strategies.

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, to be eligible for this role you must have the valid right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have lived continuously in the UK for the last five years, and you must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Job Details

Job Title: Context Engineer - Public Sector
Job ID: 72062
Location: London, City of London, United Kingdom
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - up to 80 % or 4 days a week (home on weekends, based on project requirements)
Area of Work: Software Engineering
Employment Type: Regular, Professional