Engineering Manager - AI Platform

Requirements

• 2+ years experience of engineering management in platform teams that include AI tooling and capabilities
• Experience of working in a cloud-native environment, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, golang/python)
• Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with your users. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy
• You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves
• You have experience developing platforms and tools that are used by other engineers either internally or externally

Nice to Haves

• Previously led an AI-first team driving organizational change
• Experience working in or managing internal platform teams
• Previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams
• Taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes
• Previously worked in a hyper-growth environment

What You'll Be Doing

• Actively participating in technical discussions and design reviews
• Taking a data driven approach and measuring your team’s impact with the data you can collect directly from your users
• Understanding the needs, challenges and impediments of internal teams so you can identify solutions and measure success
• Contributing to the vision and strategy of your platform area, aligning it with broader engineering and business goals
• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes
• Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development
• Leading by example: Code reviews and hands-on technical work
• Championing industry best practices and emerging trends to keep our team ahead of the curve

Perks and Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 5%)
• Life insurance - three times annual salary
• Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
• Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
• 25 days holiday and bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidized by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress
• Two charity days a year
• Weekly food pop-up