Hands-On AI PDLC Engineering Lead

Trimble Inc.; Newcastle; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Trimble Inc. is seeking an AI PDLC Engineering Manager to lead a pod, acting as the hands-on Lead Product Builder while guiding architectural guardrails and responsible for people leadership.

You will balance coding direction with coaching, ensuring secure, scalable AI-enabled features across the product lifecycle. The role requires deep enterprise experience, BIM/IP compliance knowledge, and strong delivery discipline within agile teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing enterprise solutions across complex business systems.
• Experience managing AI PDLC processes and agentic tooling.
• Proven people-management and leadership in agile environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead pod as AI PDLC Engineering Manager, safeguarding architecture and directing AI agentic workflows.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and performance management for pod members.
• Drive AI tooling adoption and measure success metrics across the pod.
• Translate strategic priorities into a sustainable product backlog with partners.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

BIM ISO19650

AI PDLC

People management

Agile

C#/.NET

JavaScript frameworks

SQL

CI/CD

REST APIs

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Version control

Job description

Trimble Inc. is seeking an AI PDLC Engineering Manager to lead a pod, acting as the hands-on Lead Product Builder while guiding architectural guardrails and responsible for people leadership.

You will balance coding direction with coaching, ensuring secure, scalable AI-enabled features across the product lifecycle. The role requires deep enterprise experience, BIM/IP compliance knowledge, and strong delivery discipline within agile teams.