AI Platform Engineering Lead — Hands-on & Visionary

Anaplan; Manchester; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan in Manchester is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to build and lead our Enterprise Grade AI Platform. You’ll drive the conversational AI and agentic AI roadmap while mentoring a team of 5–8 engineers and remaining hands-on.

You will manage end-to-end delivery, collaborate with product management, establish engineering best practices, and ensure CI/CD pipelines and rigorous testing for reliable AI applications.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI/ML engineering teams to deliver complex projects.
• Hands-on ability to build and deploy AI applications in production.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management.
• Deep knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, and conversational AI patterns.
• Background in distributed systems, microservices or cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with RAG, vector stores and semantic search.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5–8 AI engineers, driving technical excellence and delivery.
• Own the AI feature roadmap and align with product management priorities.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI applications with testing.
• Oversee end-to-end development of conversational AI features in production.
• Collaborate with AI Solutions Architects to translate architecture into plans.
• Mentor engineers and promote cohesive, high-performing teams.
• Communicate progress, risks and technical decisions to leadership.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

AI engineering leadership

Python

LLM APIs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

RAG systems

Job description

Anaplan in Manchester is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to build and lead our Enterprise Grade AI Platform. You’ll drive the conversational AI and agentic AI roadmap while mentoring a team of 5–8 engineers and remaining hands-on.

You will manage end-to-end delivery, collaborate with product management, establish engineering best practices, and ensure CI/CD pipelines and rigorous testing for reliable AI applications.