Senior AI Platform Leader – Scalable, Autonomous Agents

Teradata; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of a next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will drive strategy across data science, engineering, and product teams, ensuring a scalable, production-ready platform.

This role requires 12+ years in software or data science with leadership experience, strong backend/API skills, and hands-on AI expertise. You will mentor a diverse team and influence enterprise-wide decisions.

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.
• Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production environments.
• Strong technical background in backend development, APIs, infrastructure, or platform architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, and demonstrated background in data science methodologies including model development, evaluation, and deployment.
• Proven experience working with vector databases, semantic search, feature stores, and end-to-end data science pipelines in production environments.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of delivering large cross-functional initiatives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with executive stakeholders, researchers, and engineers.
• Passion for building platforms that enable intelligent, autonomous behavior at scale.

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

Leading platform teams

Backend engineering

Cloud-native

AI/ML expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Tools

Vector databases

Semantic search

Feature stores

LLM integrations

APIs

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of a next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will drive strategy across data science, engineering, and product teams, ensuring a scalable, production-ready platform.

This role requires 12+ years in software or data science with leadership experience, strong backend/API skills, and hands-on AI expertise. You will mentor a diverse team and influence enterprise-wide decisions.