Senior AI Platform & Data Science Leader

Teradata Corporation (SE); Jefferson City (MO); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager - AI Platform to lead a team building an autonomous, AI-driven platform. You will shape the product and data science strategy, scale distributed systems, and ensure production-readiness across tooling and pipelines.

You will mentor engineers and scientists, collaborate with AI research and product teams, and drive architecture that supports recall, planning, and multi-agent orchestration at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software/platform engineering or data science with 3+ years in management.
• Proven experience scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production.
• Strong backend, APIs, infrastructure or platform-architecture background.
• Hands-on with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations and data science workflows.
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, feature stores and pipelines.
• Proven ability to deliver large cross-functional initiatives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with exec stakeholders, researchers and engineers.
• Passion for building autonomous, data-science-powered platforms at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform with scalable architecture.
• Collaborate with product, data science, research and engineering to define AI capabilities.
• Drive design and implementation of core platform services including API gateways and RAG pipelines.
• Oversee integrations with third-party tools and data services for production-scale agent execution.
• Guide the team in cloud-native development, observability and security practices.
• Manage and mentor a high-performing team of backend engineers and data scientists.
• Align platform capabilities with evolving AI product needs across the organization.
• Foster technical excellence through code reviews and reliability practices.
• Contribute to the long-term vision of agentic workflows powered by data science.

Skills

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

AI/ML platforms

LLM integrations

Tools

APIs

Vector databases

Semantic search

Feature stores

Data pipelines

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager - AI Platform to lead a team building an autonomous, AI-driven platform. You will shape the product and data science strategy, scale distributed systems, and ensure production-readiness across tooling and pipelines.

You will mentor engineers and scientists, collaborate with AI research and product teams, and drive architecture that supports recall, planning, and multi-agent orchestration at scale.