AI & Automation Engineer in Manchester

We’re On the Beach! Since 2003, we have been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year and we are still growing. Powered by our entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we’re accelerating—delivering best-in-class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.

About The Role

At On the Beach, we are investing in tools and platforms that support our ambitious plans to scale the organisation and provide even more fantastic holidays for our customers. We are looking for an Automation Engineer to help us rethink, redesign, rebuild and support our existing business processes and solutions. This role requires the ability to work alone and as part of a team, as well as coaching others.

What You’ll Be Doing Day To Day:

• Design and build scalable automation frameworks for lo-code, no-code, RPA and agentic software engineering workflows through reusable components and frameworks to accelerate and standardise practices.
• Operationalise and provide support for solutions, creating clear documentation for automated processes and workflows that set them up for resilience, error handling and scalability.
• Analyse current business processes to spot automation and evaluate opportunities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to fully understand end-user needs and outcomes that need to be achieved.
• Use data to articulate outcomes using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Share your knowledge through coaching and mentoring colleagues.

You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

Technical:

• Highly proficient in Python and other scripting languages such as Typescript, including test frameworks, debugging and performance analysis.
• Demonstrable experience of building robust, scalable and supportable solutions using Agentic frameworks such as Langchain, Autogen, CrewAI or CoPilot Studio.
• Advanced use of MCP, and the role of MCP servers, with particular reference to security and how to mitigate risk.
• Demonstrable experience of working with structured and unstructured datasets in an automation environment.
• Experience of Lo and No Code solutions, with Power Automate a bonus.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices and development methodologies with a background in infrastructure-as-code beneficial.
• Critical understanding of security principles for automated, and particularly agentic, systems.

Analytical and Problem solving:

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to use data at all stages in the design, build and operationalising of automated systems.
• Ability to design experiments and interpret results to improve system performance, reduction in errors and/or resilience.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently on complex challenges and across teams and disciplines.
• A coaching and mentoring mindset, finding satisfaction in developing others.

What To Expect From Our Interview Process:

We’ll run a multi-stage interview process, one stage of which will be an in-person interview at our Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.

Ways of working:

Our full-time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don’t have rigid working hours so you can find the pattern that’s right for you. We have core working hours between 10am – 4pm to facilitate collaboration. We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and one day a fortnight from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. You are welcome in the office at any time to collaborate.

Our Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off.
• Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you’re away on your On the Beach package holiday.
• Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support.
• Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling.
• Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan.
• Company Sick Pay scheme.
• Regular wellbeing events.
• Gym discount.
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP).
• Death in Service cover.
• Onsite subsidised coffee shop.
• The Sandbox (our very own bar).
• Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre.
• Regular social events.
• Cycle to Work scheme.

We’re On the Beach! One of the UK's largest online package holiday specialists, with significant opportunities for growth.