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We’re On the Beach. We send nearly two million people on holiday every year (not together) and we’re expecting to get to three million pretty sharpish. Why? Because we’re the only holiday company who truly gets why going on your holidays is the best week or two of the year.

With our market-leading offers, scalable, flexible and innovative technology, strong customer-value proposition and low-cost base, we’re challenging existing players and redefining how customers book, manage and experience their holidays.

And it doesn’t stop there. With huge opportunities for growth, we’re on a long-term mission to become Europe’s largest online package holiday specialist, so our story’s only really just begun…

We're on the lookout for talented, holiday-loving people to join us and contribute to the next chapter of our story.

You will get to work on interesting projects and will be given the tools and autonomy to have the chance to make your impact on our growth plans.

We're a down to earth and friendly bunch, with little bureaucracy or hierarchy, and whilst we may have grown in size, we've not lost our entrepreneurial spirit. It's in our DNA.

You'll find diverse teams, reflective of the world we live in and the customers we serve. We believe strongly that difference, not uniformity, is critical to our success. We know that better decisions happen when they are made by a range of voices, perspectives and experiences. As an equal opportunities employer, we value and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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.

We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the People team know and they will be happy to assist.

Ways of working

Our fulltime hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.

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 however, so come in and collab.

We might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.

These include:

• 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
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
• Death in Service cover
• The Sandbox (our very own bar)
• Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre
• Cycle to Work scheme

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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Manchester, England, United Kingdom