AI Platform Engineering Lead, Conversational AI

Anaplan Inc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan Inc in Manchester seeks a hands-on Technical Lead to build and lead our Enterprise Grade AI Platform. You will drive the conversational AI, Generative and agentic AI roadmap while guiding a team of engineers and keeping your own hands in the code when needed.

You will mentor engineers, own delivery plans, and partner with product leadership to prioritise features, with a focus on scalable AI systems and robust CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI applications in production.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams to delivery.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs, prompt engineering and conversational AI patterns.
• Experience with agentic frameworks and autonomous agent architectures.
• Strong Python and modern software development practices (testing, CI/CD).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of 5-8 AI engineers.
• Drive end-to-end execution of conversational AI features.
• Oversee development of agentic AI systems for data analysis and planning.
• Own delivery roadmap with product management.
• Establish engineering best practices for AI development and testing.
• Lead sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives.

Skills

AI leadership

Python

LLM APIs

Agentic AI

Agile/Scrum

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Mentoring

Cloud-native

Communication

Tools

RAG systems

Vector databases

Semantic search

Fine-tuning

Evaluation workflows

Job description

Anaplan Inc in Manchester seeks a hands-on Technical Lead to build and lead our Enterprise Grade AI Platform. You will drive the conversational AI, Generative and agentic AI roadmap while guiding a team of engineers and keeping your own hands in the code when needed.

You will mentor engineers, own delivery plans, and partner with product leadership to prioritise features, with a focus on scalable AI systems and robust CI/CD pipelines.