Senior AI Platform Leader — Scale Autonomous Agents

Teradata Corporation (SE); Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Teradata Corporation (SE) seeks a Senior Manager - AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next‑generation platform powering autonomous AI agents. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, shaping product and data science strategy, and ensuring the platform is performant, extensible, and production-ready.

The role requires deep backend, cloud, and AI/ML expertise, with a focus on scalable architectures, cross‑functional collaboration, and delivering end-to-end

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software/platform engineering or data science.
• 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership overseeing AI-driven initiatives.
• Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability, reliability, and seamless integration with LLMs and 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.

Job description

Teradata Corporation (SE) seeks a Senior Manager - AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next‑generation platform powering autonomous AI agents. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, shaping product and data science strategy, and ensuring the platform is performant, extensible, and production-ready.

The role requires deep backend, cloud, and AI/ML expertise, with a focus on scalable architectures, cross‑functional collaboration, and delivering end-to-end