Senior Manager, AI Platform & Platform Engineering

Teradata; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Time‑off programs

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 manage a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, guiding product strategy and ensuring production‑readiness.

You will drive cloud‑native, scalable platforms with API gateways, vector store integrations, and multi‑agent orchestration, while collaborating with research and product teams to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 12+ years 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.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, and data science methodologies including model development, evaluation, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability and reliable integration with LLMs and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product, data science, research, and engineering teams to define requirements for capabilities like predictive modeling, memory, planning, multi-agent collaboration, and tool orchestration.
• Design and implement core platform services including API gateways, vector store integrations, RAG pipelines, and data science experimentation frameworks.
• Oversee integrations with third-party tools and internal data science services to enable real-world agent execution and scalable model deployment.
• Guide the team in cloud-native development, distributed computing, observability, and security best practices.
• Manage and mentor 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 reviews, reliability practices, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Contribute to long-term vision of agentic workflows powered by data science and ML across the organization.

Skills

Platform leadership

Backend & APIs

AI/ML platforms

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Tools

Vector databases

Semantic search

Feature stores

LLM integrations

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 manage a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, guiding product strategy and ensuring production‑readiness.

You will drive cloud‑native, scalable platforms with API gateways, vector store integrations, and multi‑agent orchestration, while collaborating with research and product teams to deliver measurable business value.