Senior AI Platform Lead - Scalable LLM & Data Platform

Teradata; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development and evolution of a next‑gen platform powering autonomous AI-driven agents. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists to ensure the platform is performant, extensible, and production‑ready.

You will drive strategy for AI and data science, collaborate across product and research, and oversee scalable, cloud‑native services like APIs, vector stores, and RAG pipelines, aligning with enterprise needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software/platform engineering or data science, with 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership roles overseeing AI-driven initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability, reliability, and seamless integration with LLMs, data science pipelines.
• Partner with product, data science, research, and engineering teams to define requirements for capabilities such as predictive modeling, memory, planning, multi-agent collaboration, and tool orchestration.
• Drive the design and implementation of core platform services including API gateways, vector store integrations, RAG pipelines, and data science experimentation frameworks.
• Oversee integrations with third-party tools, internal data science services, and infrastructure platforms to enable real-world agent execution and model deployment at scale.
• Guide the team in applying best practices in cloud-native development, distributed computing, observability, and security.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of backend engineers, data scientists, and AI platform specialists.
• Ensure alignment between platform capabilities and evolving needs from AI product lines and downstream applications.
• Drive technical excellence through code and design reviews, system reliability practices, and collaboration across engineering functions.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and strategy of how agentic workflows, powered by data science and machine learning, will operate at scale across the organization.

Skills

AI Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Backend development

APIs & integration

LLM integrations

Data science methodologies

Vector databases

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

Vector databases

Data pipelines

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development and evolution of a next‑gen platform powering autonomous AI-driven agents. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists to ensure the platform is performant, extensible, and production‑ready.

You will drive strategy for AI and data science, collaborate across product and research, and oversee scalable, cloud‑native services like APIs, vector stores, and RAG pipelines, aligning with enterprise needs.