Lead/Senior Lead Software Engineer - Agentic Ai Engineering

Ifs; Boughton Monchelsea; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS builds enterprise software and seeks a product operations professional to scale AI-enabled decision-making across the product portfolio. You will translate portfolio data into actionable insights, build predictive models and guide prioritisation, investment, and roadmaps with a strong ROI focus.

You will enable teams with self-serve tools, define operating models, and prototype AI agents to reduce friction.

Qualifications

• Background in product operations or portfolio management with governance and roadmapping.
• Fluency with ROI, benefits realization and data-driven decision making.
• Experience enabling teams with self-serve tools and AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Turn portfolio data and business signals into self-serve insights for prioritisation.
• Build predictive models and scenario analysis to compare real options.
• Make ROI-based recommendations for investment across products.
• Develop AI-enabled knowledge management to simplify strategy and roadmap consumption.
• Design and deploy AI agents and workflows that scale across PMO.

Skills

Portfolio management

Product management

Financial modelling

AI tooling

Strategy development

Tools

Claude

ChatGPT

Copilot

Job description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

IFS builds enterprise software for the industries that run the world – energy, manufacturing, construction,aerospaceandtelecom among them. As AI moves from pilot to daily practice across our Product Management organization, we need someone who can turn that shift intopractical ,adopted ways of working that help teams make better decisions and reduce friction at scale.

We'relooking forsomeone whocan bring structure to complex, cross-functional problems –identifyingroot causes, creatingpracticalsolutions, andhelping teams adopt better ways of working at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of portfolio management, productmanagementand financial/commercial planning,withAI-agentic firstways of workingcentral to the role.You will useAI tools as your default way of working,andprototypeandimplementreusable agents, data products and automated workflows that remove friction at scale.

You'llreport intoIFSProduct & Technology Strategy & Planning organization, working closely with Product Management leadership. This is an individual-contributor role. Your impact is measured in influence,clarityand adopted capabilities.

You can be located in any of these countries; UK, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden or Sri Lanka

Portfolio insight and decision enablement –turn portfolio data, initiative context and business signals into self-serve insights, decision tools and clear options that help product managers and leaders make better-informed prioritization,investmentand sequencing decisions.

Predictive and scenario-based portfolio analysis –go beyond reporting on the past: build predictive models that forecast portfolio outcomes, and model alternative scenarios, trade-offs and opportunity costs – a capability we don't have today – so leadership can compare real options instead of relying on gut feel.

Capital allocation and ROI –develop clear, evidence-based recommendations for how investment should beallocatedacrossproducts anddefine how ROI and benefits realization are tracked once decisions are made.

Strategy support –use AI-powered knowledge management to make our strategy and roadmap easier to consume and act onand use portfolio insight to pressure-test it – are we funding the strategy we set out to fund, are we spread too thin, are we over-investing in areas with limited growth potential.

Root cause analysis –dig past symptoms to understand why the same friction keeps recurring acrossteamsandhelp design sustainable solutions rather than local workarounds.

Turning ambiguity into scalable capability –clarify ambiguous requirements,translate recurring organizational friction into repeatable processes, operating models andandhelp teams adoptAI-enabled solutions broadly rather than solved repeatedly as one-off problems.

Agentic enablement –design, prototype and deploy AI agents, workflows and decision-support tools that scale across the product management organization, replacing repetitive analysis and coordination work with reusable capabilities.

Enablement over control –create the tools, data products, AIagentsand operating mechanisms that allow product managers to work more independently and effectively, reducing reliance on central coordination while increasing consistency and decision quality.

Qualifications

You do not need to meet every point below. We are most interested in candidates who can combine strong portfolio/product thinking with analytical judgement, curiosity about AI-enabled ways of working, and the ability to translate complexity into practical, adopted solutions.

Essential experience and capabilities

Background in product operations, portfolio management, product management, or a closely related role, with solid grounding in product planning,roadmapping,prioritisationor portfolio governance.

Financial and commercial fluency – comfortable modelling portfolio scenarios, trade-offs and opportunity costs, and framing recommendations in terms of ROI and benefitsrealisationthat leadership can act on.

Comfortoperatingat the portfolio level – able to turn complexprioritisationand sequencing questions into clear data,evidenceand options, so Product Managers and leaders can make confident, well-informed decisions across multiple teams and initiatives.

Practical confidence using modern AI tools such as Claude,ChatGPTor Copilot to improve analysis, decision-makingor ways of working.

A strong preference for enabling teams through better tools, clearer processes, self-serveanswersand AI-enabled ways of working, rather thancentralisingdecisions or becoming a gatekeeper.

Comfort clarifying ambiguous requirements, shaping a path forward and working with stakeholders to build alignment.

Hands-on experience building or configuring AI agents,workflowsor self-service tools, for example via Claude, MCP-style tool integrations,Copilotor low-code agent platforms.

Enough understanding of how software gets built in an AI-assisted world to partner credibly with engineering; you do not need to ship production code, but you understand how the work has changed.

Experience in enterprise software or B2B SaaS productorganisations.

Familiarity with portfolio management frameworks.

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.

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