Agentic AI Principal at thoughtworks · Manchester
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CI/CD
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Python
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<h3 id="technical-skills">Technical Skills</h3>
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<li>Recognised experience architecting and delivering complex GenAI and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale, from early discovery through
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<li>Deep knowledge of agentic architectures and frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, LlamaIndex or equivalent, including tool use,
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<li>Strong expertise in Retrieval-Augmented Generation, advanced information retrieval, vector databases and enterprise knowledge integratio
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<li>Experience designing evaluation strategies for GenAI and agentic systems, including quality, safety, reliability, latency and cost measu
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<li>Strong understanding of AI governance and safeguards, including guardrails, red-teaming, observability, responsible AI and secure deploy
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<li>Significant experience deploying AI systems on major cloud platforms using containers, orchestration and production-grade infrastructure
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Why they ask: CI/CD is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Python is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
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Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
Why they ask: Looks for red flags and motivation.
How to answer: Stay positive: what you want next, not what you dislike.
Why they ask: Fit and ambition check.
How to answer: Tie your growth to the problems this team is solving.
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