At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the architecture and strategy for predictive intelligence services at Anaplan.
- Company: Join Anaplan, a leader in predictive intelligence, based in Manchester.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to innovation and excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in AI and predictive analytics while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 12+ years in software engineering, with expertise in Python and ML services.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Full‑time, on‑site position focused on predictive intelligence.
About the Role
You will join the Predictive Intelligence engineering team, responsible for the Syrup platform and the family of forecasting and predictive services that power Anaplan’s verticalized solutions. The team builds and operates the ML platform, forecasting engines, and data processing services that deliver demand forecasting, inventory recommendations, and predictive insights to enterprise customers in retail, supply chain, and beyond. This role reports to the Director of Engineering for Predictive Intelligence and serves as the senior technical leader across the predictive intelligence pillar.
Responsibilities
- Own the overall architecture and technical strategy for Anaplan’s predictive intelligence services across multiple verticalised solutions.
- Drive a unified architectural approach across disparate intelligence services, reducing duplication and establishing shared platform primitives for forecasting, model serving, and data processing.
- Provide hands‑on design and implementation leadership for major features and platform initiatives, including writing and reviewing critical‑path code where required.
- Define and oversee the MLOps strategy spanning model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Establish and evangelise engineering best practices across services, including standards for scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence.
- Mentor senior engineers and work closely with data scientists to elevate technical quality and shorten the path from research to production.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Platform leadership to shape the multi‑quarter technical roadmap and influence cross‑organisation decisions on predictive intelligence.
- Represent the AI engineering organisation in technical conversations and architectural reviews with external teams.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a principal or architect‑level role owning systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in Python and designing and operating high‑availability, production ML services.
- Hands‑on experience designing and operating data and analytics platforms built on Snowflake, Iceberg, Trino, and Postgres.
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with familiarity across multi‑cloud environments.
- Demonstrated experience with MLOps tooling and patterns, including model registries, experiment tracking, and CI/CD for ML.
- Proven ability to lead architectural strategy across multiple teams and services, balancing long‑term vision with pragmatic delivery.
- Strong communication skills, able to translate complex technical decisions into clear narratives for engineers, data scientists, product partners, and executives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Skills
- Experience operating forecasting models in production, including gradient‑boosted methods, neural networks, and constraint‑based optimization solvers.
- Domain background in retail, supply chain, demand planning, or financial planning.
- Experience leading post‑acquisition platform integration or cross‑organisation architectural alignment across previously independent products.
- Open‑source contributions to ML infrastructure, data processing, or related ecosystems.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. We make hiring and working environments respectful and valuing diversity across gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect that makes people unique. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
