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We source data from wherever it flows. We curate, normalise, validate, repair, and enrich that data so it reaches its destination in a reliable and consistent format. Data coming out of Xceptor is data our clients can trust.\nWe are recognised as an expert in the Financial Services vertical, which strongly aligns with Business Users in Middle and Back-Office teams. We enable these users to solve their data challenges by themselves, rather than through a technology-led project.\nOur mission - we empower business users within financial institutions to build automated processes that deliver trusted data.\nOur values sit at the heart of our business, driving who we are and how we work. At Xceptor, we are:\nClient Centric; we prioritise our Clients’ experience and needs.\n\nOne Team; we actively support one another to achieve our goals.\n\nImpactful; we focus, we innovate, we make every minute matter.\n\nYour Role:\nBusiness Area and Team\nThe Tax Solutions Tribe builds high-value, repeatable industry standardised tax solutions on the Xceptor platform, combining domain depth with engineering discipline to deliver fast customer outcomes. We operate with an AI-first PDLC: agents draft configuration, tests, documentation, and runbooks; humans set intent and constraints, verify, and approve to a production bar.\nThe Role & Why this Exists\nAs a Solutions Engineer, you are a key contributor who designs, configures, and delivers production-grade solutions on the Xceptor platform, with the aim of driving down time-to-value for our customers. You own meaningful end-to-end slices of work, from specification through implementation and deployment, delivering high-quality outcomes while supporting other engineers and playing a vital role in the evolution of our repeatable solutions portfolio.\nThis role exists to help the tribe ship high-quality solutions quickly and consistently, while driving forward the adoption of AI tooling across the Solutions Tribe and expanding our AI-enabled delivery capabilities.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nKey Accountabilities & Responsibilities\nMission Delivery\nOwn delivery of features and technical slices end-to-end, including production support.\nBreaks work into small increments, keeps PRs focused, and ship frequently with a bias to outcomes.\nTurn ambiguity into clarity by asking the right questions and aligning quickly on scope, constraints, and acceptance.\nDeliver production-grade functionality by default (security, performance, observability, auditability, maintainability).\nAI-First Delivery System (How we build):\nUses AI routinely to accelerate delivery (analysis, testing, documentation)\nValidates AI-generated output, never accepting them blindly.\nApplies verification discipline appropriate to scope: unit tests, automated tests where relevant, edge cases, and basic threat/abuse considerations.\nContribute to templates, data patterns, and workflows.\nTechnical Delivery:\nDesign and configure robust, reusable solutions on the Xceptor platform.\nWork effectively with SQL: write safe queries, with appropriate schema design, indexing, and performance trade-offs.\nWork confidently with structured and semi structured data (XML, JSON, CSV, Excel).\nProduce automated tests aligned to the solution’s design (unit/configuration tests where applicable) and treat test quality as a first-class part of delivery.\nKeep documentation current, accurate, and useful with AI drafting, ensuring accuracy and usefulness.\nQuality, Security & Production Readiness (Speed with Control):\nEnsure that the tribe’s quality expectations are consistently met.\nBuild automated test cases for new functionality.\nFix issues quickly when identified.\nUnderstand and follow safe release practices in a regulated environment.\nCollaboration & Culture:\nWork effectively across departments to deliver outcomes, not just output.\nShare knowledge, support peers, and contribute to a positive, high-performing culture.\nMaintain a continuous learning mindset and adopt improved practices, helping others do the same.\nStep up to unblock progress, improve reliability, and strengthen the tribe’s delivery system when needed.\nWho we're looking for:\nKey Competencies\nTechnical:\nStrong logical and analytical problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex challenges and make sound engineering judgements.\nExtensive hands-on experience with XML and SQL.\nSolid Excel skills are advantageous.\nHighly comfortable working with CI/CD, code reviews, and automated testing practices, and able to raise the bar for quality and reliability across the team.\nExcellent technical communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to own solutions end-to-end, from specification through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production readiness.\nAI-First Engineering (Must Have):\nUses AI as a routine delivery partner to accelerate implementation and analysis, validating AI-generated outputs through tests and review.\nEffective in an AI-first team: delegates to agents, iterates quickly, and maintains a high verification bar.\nContributes to team-level leverage by improving templates, patterns, gates, and delivery playbooks.\nNon Technical:\nCollaborative, reliable, and accountable; takes ownership and follows through.\nPragmatic and delivery-focused; balances pace with quality and control.\nCustomer-centric mindset for regulated mission-critical environments.\nOpen, curious, and motivated to learn and improve.\nPrevious tax experience is not required but would be advantageous.\nRequired Education & Experience\nStrong academic background, including a degree in a STEM subject discipline, or equivalent experience\nExperience delivering data-driven solutions (typically 5+ years) in Solutions Engineering, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience implementing solutions that include data ingestion, transformation, validation, enrichment, or workflow logic.\nSignificant exposure to software development concepts (e.g., C#/.NET or a similar language).\nExperience working with XML, SQL, and structured/semi-structured data.\nEvidence of strong engineering fundamentals and ability to learn quickly in a fast-moving environment.\nHow Success Will be Measured\nThis role is measured on outcomes and how they’re achieved: faster delivery, production-grade quality, and controlled change.\n Flow: DORA (lead time, deploy frequency, change failure rate, MTTR)\n Quality: Quality Health Indicator (defect escape, time to resolve, severity trend, etc)\n DX: Developer Experience Score (shipping friction, golden path usability)\nAI leverage: throughput up without rework/escapes; high adoption of AI workflow & golden paths\n Assurance: automated gates coverage (tests/security/observability/performance) and review effectiveness (low rollback/rework)\nProduction & controls: SLO attainment, incident/severity trend, and audit-ready traceability of changes/approvals\n Behaviours: AI-first by default (uses agents effectively, follows guardrails, verifies outputs); strong ownership; learns fast; control-aware decisions.\nAssociated Values and Behaviours\nPersonable and approachable, with an enthusiastic, motivational nature and a passion for excellence.\nOperates with integrity and accountability; sets a high bar while creating an environment where others can succeed.\nCulturally aware and inclusive; collaborates respectfully across disciplines and backgrounds.\nDrives continuous learning, personally and across the tribe, embracing modern practices including AI-enabled delivery.\nThis is a great opportunity to join an innovative, fast-paced, highly collaborative, and forward-thinking organisation, during a significant growth phase. Xceptor is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law.\nPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required for the employees of this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.\nReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nDiversity & Inclusion at Xceptor\nWe believe great ideas come from everywhere - and that the best teams are made up of people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. 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