At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to build an Enterprise Grade AI Platform and drive innovative AI features.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on AI excellence.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic startup environment with exciting challenges and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in AI while mentoring a talented team.
- Qualifications: Experience in AI, project management, and leading engineering teams required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We’re looking for a hands‑on Technical Lead to build and lead our Enterprise Grade AI Platform. You’ll drive execution of our conversational AI, Generative and agentic AI roadmap, managing a team of talented engineers while remaining hands‑on yourself. This role requires both exceptional leadership skills and the ability to roll up your sleeves and solve complex technical problems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-8 AI engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and delivery.
- Drive end‑to‑end execution of conversational AI features that enable users to interact with Anaplan models through natural language.
- Oversee the development of agentic AI systems that can autonomously analyse data, generate insights, and execute planning workflows.
- Own the team’s delivery roadmap, working closely with product management to prioritise features and manage technical trade‑offs.
- Establish engineering best practices for AI development, including testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, and deployment patterns.
- Lead sprint planning, technical design reviews, and retrospectives to ensure consistent delivery velocity and quality.
- Collaborate with AI Solutions Architects to translate architectural vision into executable engineering plans.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI applications, including automated testing and prompt regression suites.
- Partner with platform teams to ensure AI features integrate seamlessly with Anaplan’s core infrastructure.
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions to senior leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Strong project management skills with experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Deep knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and conversational AI patterns.
- Experience with agentic frameworks and autonomous agent architectures.
- Proficiency in Python and modern software development practices (testing, code review, CI/CD).
- Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time with high quality.
- Software engineering experience while leading engineering teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and build cohesive, productive teams.
- Strong hands‑on experience building and deploying AI applications in production.
- Experience leading teams in fast‑growing startups or enterprise software companies.
- Knowledge of financial planning, analytics, or business intelligence domains.
- Experience with RAG systems, vector databases, and semantic search.
- Familiarity with model fine‑tuning, evaluation, and continuous improvement workflows.
- Background in distributed systems, microservices, or cloud‑native architectures.
Technical Lead of AI Engineering in Manchester employer: Anaplan
Anaplan in Manchester is an exceptional employer that prioritises diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering a collaborative work culture where every voice is valued. Employees benefit from continuous growth opportunities through professional development and access to cutting-edge BI tools, making it an ideal environment for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the field of data analytics.
