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You will engage with a broad and diverse range of stakeholders, providing strong visibility and opportunities to further develop your career.\nThis role will be responsible for translating Chief Engineer direction into practical engineering practices across the Release Train, including designing and deploying Agentic SDLC solutions and agents using approved platforms. You will drive automation-first engineering, contribute hands-on to software design and development, and embed strong standards across quality, testing, observability, resilience and production readiness. 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