Engineering Manager / Software Engineering Manager (Backend/Platform) or Technical Lead / Lead ...

Title

AI Engineering Manager / Senior Infrastructure Delivery Manager

Locations

Dublin, Ireland; Leeds, UK; London, UK

Role Overview

This is a critical leadership role within the Flutter UK & Ireland AI Platform initiative. The AI Engineering Team Manager will be responsible for building and leading a high performing engineering squad across multiple locations, focused on delivering core components of a multi tenant, enterprise grade AI platform. This platform will underpin the next generation of AI capabilities across the business - from internal assistants through to advanced agentic systems and domain specific AI services. You will combine hands on technical leadership with people leadership, ensuring high quality engineering delivery while shaping best practices for building scalable, secure, and production ready AI systems on AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a cross functional engineering team (backend / full stack)
• Set engineering standards, patterns, and ways of working aligned to platform first principles
• Drive a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement

• Lead the design and delivery of core AI platform services (APIs, orchestration layers, integration services)
• Contribute to the development of a multi tenant AI control plane with built in governance, security, and observability
• Ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise architecture standards

• Provide hands on guidance across system design, architecture, and implementation
• Partner with Architecture, Security, and Platform teams to ensure alignment with AWS best practices (incl. Bedrock and cloud native services)
• Support design reviews and contribute to Technical Design Authority processes

• Enable the team to build AI powered services, including LLM integrations, agent frameworks, and retrieval based systems
• Ensure responsible AI practices are embedded (guardrails, auditability, data controls)

• Work closely with Product, Business Analysis, and Engagement teams to translate use cases into deliverable outcomes
• Support iterative MVP delivery, balancing speed with long term platform integrity
• Collaborate across UK I and International teams to drive consistency and reuse

Skills & Experience Essential

• Strong experience as a senior or lead engineer in backend or full stack development
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex distributed systems
• Experience building cloud native applications on AWS (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, DynamoDB)
• Strong understanding of system design, APIs, and microservices architecture
• Experience working in agile environments with modern engineering practices

Desirable

• Experience working with AI/ML systems or integrating with LLMs (e.g. Amazon Bedrock)
• Knowledge of multi tenant architectures and platform engineering concepts
• Experience with observability, security, and governance in enterprise systems
• Familiarity with event driven architectures and data pipelines

Why This Role

• Opportunity to shape and build a greenfield AI platform at enterprise scale
• Direct impact on how AI is delivered across Flutter UK & Ireland
• Work at the intersection of platform engineering, AI, and product innovation
• Build and lead a team in a high visibility, strategically critical programme

Success Measures

• Successful build and growth of a high performing engineering team
• Delivery of scalable, reusable AI platform components
• Adoption of platform services across multiple teams and use cases
• High standards of engineering quality, security, and reliability