AI Architect

Anaplan; Salford; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan is seeking a senior/principal engineer to lead the architecture of its Predictive Intelligence engineering team in Salford, UK. You will own the overall architecture and technical strategy for forecasting and ML services, guiding platform initiatives across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with data scientists, and drive engineering best practices to ensure scalable, observable, and production‑ready systems across multiple products.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in software engineering at senior or principal/architect level aimed at large-scale systems.
• Deep expertise in Python and building high-availability production ML services.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating data/analytics platforms (Snowflake, Iceberg, Trino, Postgres).
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), including multi-cloud familiarity.
• Demonstrated experience with MLOps tooling (model registries, experiment tracking, CI/CD).
• Proven track record leading architectural strategy across multiple teams and services.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical strategy for predictive intelligence services across multiple verticalized solutions.
• Drive unified architectural patterns, reduce duplication, and create shared primitives for forecasting and data processing.
• Provide hands-on design and implementation leadership for major features and platform initiatives.
• Define and oversee MLOps strategy spanning training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management on Kubernetes across cloud providers.
• Establish engineering best practices for scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and collaborate with data scientists to accelerate production readiness of research.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Python

ML systems design

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

MLOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Iceberg

Trino

Postgres

Job description

You will join the Predictive Intelligence engineering team within Anaplan, the group 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.

Your Impact

• 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 the work demands it.
• Define and oversee the MLOps strategy spanning model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Establish and evangelize engineering best practices across services, including standards for scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and partner 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 outside teams.

Your Qualifications

• Strong experience working within Software Engineering, Principal or Architect‑level role owning systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in Python and in designing and operating high‑availability, production ML services.
• Hands‑on experience designing and operating data and analytics platforms built on technologies such as Snowflake, Iceberg, Trino, and Postgres.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with working familiarity across multi‑cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience with MLOps tooling and patterns, including model registries, experiment tracking, and CI/CD for.
• Proven ability to lead architectural strategy across multiple teams and services, balancing long‑term vision with pragmatic delivery.
• Strong communicator who can translate complex technical decisions into clear narratives for engineers, data scientists, product partners, and executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a 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 a related field.

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