Forward Deployed Engineer
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Sponsorship likelihood
This employer has issued visas recently
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Salary
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£54,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2134 (96% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and Smartedge Solutions is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Most likely code | £38,300 | £43,700 | £49,200 | £54,700 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Job Description :
They work directly with operations and product teams, find real problems, and turn them into working agentic AI and automation solutions quickly. They partner with an onsite Platform Architect and an offshore team of agent engineers, automation developers, and QA.
What you'll do
- Work with business users and Product Owners to find automation use cases and shape them into backlog items.
- Build prototypes and production-grade agents fast, and show working software at every sprint demo.
- Integrate with enterprise platforms such as property management, workforce management, forecasting and supplier systems through APIs and event-driven patterns.
- Build on cloud using CI/CD pipelines, following our security and quality standards.
- Feed what you learn on site back to the offshore team, so delivery keeps moving quickly.
- Act as a trusted technical voice for client stakeholders, from frontline teams to senior leadership.
What you'll bring
- 12+ years in full-stack or platform engineering, with recent hands-on GenAI work.
- Strong skills in LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and multi-agent orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph, ADK or similar).
- Python and/or TypeScript; REST APIs, event-driven integration, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Cloud experience, preferably Azure (AWS or GCP is also fine).
- Experience in customer-facing roles where you turned loosely defined business needs into shipped solutions.
- Comfortable working in agile delivery, with fortnightly sprints and demos.
Good to have
- Hospitality or hotel operations experience. If a candidate has strong engineering depth but no hospitality background, we can upskill them.
- Experience with enterprise security (SSO, RBAC) and governance for AI solutions.
What success looks like
- Use cases go live quickly, client stakeholders adopt them, and value can be measured against agreed KPIs.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Smartedge Solutions, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Programmers and software development professionals (SOC 2134) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~399k in sample- Middle half £42,536–76,752
- Median £56,784
- Going rate £54,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,300–49,200
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Smartedge Solutions holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2134 going rate of £54,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.