Senior Platform Engineering Lead (AI, Analytics & Scale)

PDI Technologies

Temple (TX)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

PDI Technologies is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead the platform and the team behind it. This hands-on leadership role focuses on architecture, design reviews, and active coding, shaping a platform that supports multiple products and business outcomes.

You will define the platform boundary with product teams, drive adoption, and deliver analytics, AI capabilities, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Hybrid work and growth opportunities are emphasized.

Qualifications

8+ years building and operating production software, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
Hands-on; you can read the code, run the system, debug a production issue, and lead a design review with authority.
Strong distributed systems and platform architecture background, including API design, service-to-service authentication, and multi-tenant data isolation.
Deep working knowledge of at least two of the following, with credible knowledge of the rest: Analytics/BI platforms, LLM application engineering, workflow/orchestration platforms, modern web app platforms, AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, GitOps, and identity/auth patterns.
Track record of taking an existing platform and materially improving its architecture, reliability, or adoption.

Responsibilities

Set and own the platform's technical direction.
Treat the platform as a product and define its adoption path.
Deliver analytics and AI capabilities that products can ship on.
Raise the engineering bar on delivery with automated, observable releases and design reviews.
Run the platform with clear service levels, reliability, and cost awareness.
Partner with product engineering, architecture, data engineering, SRE, and security to align with business goals.
Build the team through hiring, mentoring, and setting technical standards.