Engineering Manager - Retail Tech, Architecture, AI Engineering in London

Engineering Manager (Consulting) – Retail Tech, Architecture, AI Engineering & Agentic Systems – Global Enterprises
8 The takeaway:
This is a consulting role for an ex–Tech Lead or Engineering Manager who can guide enterprise engineering teams, shape architecture, and embed modern AI engineering processes & practices (including agentic coding systems like Claude Code ) without writing code themselves . You'll understand exactly what engineers are doing, how AI-augmented pipelines operate, and how to support teams through the transition within retail tech domains (e.g. POS, OMS, WMS, ERP, eCommerce) .
You'll be the person who understands how everything works under the hood, even if you're not the one typing, influencing senior retail stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable and successful adoption of AI engineering across global retail organisations .
?? About the Role:
We're hiring an Engineering Manager (Consulting) to help large retail and consumer organisations modernise their engineering capability and adopt production-grade AI. You'll work across multiple enterprise-scale retail clients, from omnichannel commerce platforms to supply-chain systems, shaping architecture, guiding delivery teams, and introducing AI engineering workflows that leverage tools such as Claude Code , PI, and other agentic coding systems.
This role is hands-off in terms of coding, but deeply technical. You'll be expected to understand how engineers work, how agentic systems interact with codebases, and how modern AI-augmented development pipelines operate.
?? What You'll Do:
Lead architectural design and technical strategy for AI-enabled platforms and enterprise systems across retail domains (e-commerce, fulfilment, merchandising, supply chain, store operations).
Introduce AI engineering practices including model lifecycle management, evaluation frameworks, data pipelines, CI/CD for ML, observability, safety and govern...