lead software engineer

engineering manager

lead devops engineer

senior product manager

head of engineering

team lead

Xelix

<div>About us
At Xelix, we work with some of the world&rsquo;s largest companies to automate and strengthen their financial controls. Our AI solutions redefine how Accounts Payable teams operate &ndash; moving from manual processes to automated, intelligent workflows.
Xelix is a fast-paced scale-up &ndash; things move fast and expectations are high. We raised our Series B with Insight Partners in June 2025 and are expanding aggressively. We have a team of 150 talented people pulling together to achieve our goals. Everyone is trusted to take ownership, move fast and have a meaningful impact. We prioritise personal and professional growth, keep things fun, and love to celebrate a milestone together.
In this role you&rsquo;ll grow, be challenged and help shape the future of Xelix. If you&rsquo;re excited about building something special with us, we&rsquo;d love to hear from you.
About the role
Principals can act as technical stewards, ensuring consistency across squads and enforcing architectural guidelines. They should guide and coach, not act as another command-and-control layer.
Reports to: VP of Engineering
Direct reports: 3&ndash;5 Frontend Tech Team Leads
As a Principal Team Lead (Front End), you will play a critical role in scaling our engineering organisation. You&rsquo;ll lead and mentor a group of Tech Team Leads, ensuring technical alignment across teams and driving best practices for frontend architecture, accessibility, reliability, and performance.
This is a hybrid role that combines technical leadership, organisational strategy, and people management. You&rsquo;ll work closely with the VP of Engineering and Staff Engineers to shape our technical vision, enforce architectural standards, and develop future leaders in the organisation.
You will set direction for our frontend platform and user experience, with a strong emphasis on React and modern frontend technologies, ensuring we can move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, consistency, and maintainability. 
What you'll be doing<ul><li>
People Leadership<ul><li>
Manage and grow 3&ndash;5 Tech Team Leads, providing coaching on their leadership, delivery, and technical excellence.</li><li>
Support career development plans and performance reviews for the Tech Team Leads and their direct reports.</li><li>
Promote and exemplify the Xelix Culture Behaviours (Be Productive, Be Proactive, Keep Improving and Be Collaborative).</li><li>
Assist with defining team structures, e.g. squad formation, and defining ways of working for teams.</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>
Frontend Technical Strategy &amp; Alignment<ul><li>
Define and maintain frontend architecture standards (React + TypeScript), ensuring consistency across squads.</li><li>
Set conventions for component architecture, routing, state management, and data-fetching patterns.</li><li>
Support the design system and shared component library direction, including governance and adoption.</li><li>
Drive front end performance strategy and ensure teams have the tooling to measure and improve it.</li><li>
Establish frontend observability best practices (error monitoring, user-impact visibility, and actionable dashboards).</li><li>
Stay hands-on by reviewing key code, participating in design sessions, and providing technical guidance.</li><li>
Contribute to the codebase (Approx 30% of your time)</li><li>
Introduce tools and techniques to help the tech team go faster.</li></ul></li><li>
Delivery &amp; Quality<ul><li>
Ensure your teams are delivering code every day.</li><li>
Define and champion the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process.</li><li>
Act as a quality guardian through code reviews, incident management and developer training.</li><li>
Promote the use of AI by the engineering team.</li></ul></li><li>
Cross-Team Leadership<ul><li>
Act as a trusted liaison between Senior Leadership and Tech Leads, balancing strategic priorities with team realities.</li><li>
Facilitate collaboration across squads for shared services and platform initiatives.</li></ul></li></ul> 
What you&rsquo;ll bring<ul><li>
Proven experience leading multiple teams or managers.</li><li>
Experience building and scaling React applications (ideally with TypeScript).</li><li>
Strong understanding of front end architecture and modern web fundamentals (performance, browser constraints, and build tooling).</li><li>
Experience setting direction for testing strategy across the frontend (unit/component/e2e).</li><li>
Excellent coaching and mentoring skills; ability to develop strong leaders.</li><li>
Experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 50 engineers is a plus.</li><li>
Strong communication and influence skills, with a servant-leadership mindset.</li></ul> 
What we offer in return
Competitive salary of &pound;85,000-&pound;125,000 depending on experience
️ 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing) which increases up to 3 days based on tenure, with the option to roll over, buy or sell up to 3 days
Hybrid working with one day a week from our dog-friendly Hoxton office
On-site gym and cycle to work scheme
️ Employee discount at over 100 retailers
Comprehensive private medical &amp; dental cover with Vitality
Enhanced parental leave pay
Learning &amp; development culture &ndash; &pound;1,000 personal annual budget
We&rsquo;re carbon-neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals
Lots of team socials &amp; activities
️ Annual team retreat 
Want to learn more?<ul><li>
About us</li><li>
Xelix blog</li><li>
Xelix news</li><li>
Xelix glassdoor</li></ul>
We believe that people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences make our company and product better. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! And if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!
If you're a recruiting agency - we have an existing list of agencies we work with and we are not currently planning on expanding the list. Neither the Talent team nor hiring managers or the Support team will respond to cold outreach.
This is a full-time position, with standard working hours from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
Interview Process 
While the exact process may vary slightly depending on the role, our typical interview stages are:<ul><li>
Introductory Call &ndash; A short Teams conversation with a Talent Partner to discuss your background and the opportunity.</li><li>
Hiring Manager Interview &ndash; A 30&ndash;45 minute Teams meeting to explore your experience and fit for the team.</li><li>
Technical Task or Presentation &ndash; A role-relevant exercise to demonstrate your skills and approach.</li><li>
Final On-site Interview &ndash; An in-person meeting with our senior leadership team and co-founders at our office.</li></ul>
We strive to make the process clear, efficient, and respectful of your time.
We welcome the responsible use of AI for research and interview preparation, but ask that it isn't used to generate answers during live interviews. We also believe in being transparent - we use Metaview's AI note-taker during interviews so our interviewers can stay fully present. If you'd prefer us not to use it, just let your interviewer know. While you may need to answer eligibility questions as part of your application, we do not use AI to review or make decisions on applications - every application is reviewed fairly by a member of our Talent team.</div>

Principal Tech Team Lead (Front End)

Parloa

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">About Parloa</h3>

Parloa's mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the role:</h3>

As Manager, Agent Architecture, you will build and lead the team that transforms customer service with AI Agents, while staying in the build yourself. You run a team of Agent Architects: you hire them, coach them, set their goals, and own the quality of every AI Agent they ship, with a significant portion of your capacity on live customer engagements.

This is your opportunity to lead at the front line of enterprise AI, where your credibility comes from doing the work alongside your team, not just directing it.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Areas of ownership:</h3>
<ul><li>Team Leadership: Own hiring for Agent Architect roles, run weekly 1:1s, performance reviews, and career conversations, and build development plans that help each person grow. Set ramp expectations for new hires and coach Associate and mid-level Agent Architects on prompt engineering, conversation design, and customer-facing judgment.</li>
<li>Capacity and Stakeholder Alignment: Set team goals and OKRs aligned with Professional Services priorities, manage capacity and workload across concurrent engagements, and surface resourcing tradeoffs early. Represent the Agent Architecture team to Sales, Product, Engineering, customers, and partners.</li>
<li>Hands-on Agent Delivery: Personally guide customers through AI Agent implementations, from strategic advice to scoping to end-to-end delivery. Serve as the escalation point when agent performance degrades.</li>
<li>Quality and Best Practices: Define what good looks like for agent quality, enforce it through review, and make it repeatable across every live project. Document best practices for internal and external audiences, and turn recurring field problems into structured feedback for Product.</li>
</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Who you are:</h3>
<ul><li>Experience leading people, whether as a formal manager, team lead, or through sustained mentorship where you owned a group's growth and output. First-time managers with a strong coaching track record are welcome.</li>
<li>3+ years of conversation design and AI agent development experience, with a track record of building scalable solution architecture and conversational experiences grounded in real user needs.</li>
<li>Skilled in advanced prompt engineering, comfortable integrating REST APIs and working with Javascript.</li>
<li>Strong project and stakeholder management skills, with significant experience working with enterprise customers, including in escalated or high-pressure situations.</li>
<li>Sound judgment on capacity and prioritization: you can say what your team can and cannot absorb, and back it up with reasoning.</li>
</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Our recruiting process:</h3>

Talent Acquisition Hiring Manager Technical Interview(s) Bar Raiser
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Why Parloa?</h3>

We're at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn't just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We're building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren't just support tickets; they're defining experiences. We're here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments, this is where you do it.

At Parloa, ownership isn't a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that's evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.

We've grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we've kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.

Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we're scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.<div> 

Parloa is committed to upholding the highest data protection standards for our clients' and employees' data. All our employees are instrumental in ensuring the utmost care, GDPR, and ISO compliance, including ISO 27001, in handling sensitive information.

Parloa is an e-verify employer in the USA. Please click here to learn more.
<ul><li>We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability status, socioeconomic background and other characteristics.</li></ul></div></div>

Manager, Agent Architecture

DeepL SE

<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">Meet DeepL</h1>
DeepL is a global AI product and research company focused on building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals across 228 global markets today trust DeepL's Language AI platform for human-like translation, improved writing and real-time voice translation. 
Founded in 2017 by CEO Jaroslaw &ldquo;Jarek&rdquo; Kutylowski, DeepL now has around 1,000 passionate employees and is supported by world-renowned investors including Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures.
Our goal is to become the global leader in trusted, intelligent AI technology, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and create a meaningful impact. To achieve this, we need talented people like you to join our journey. If you&rsquo;re ready to shape the future of AI and grow your career in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment, DeepL is your next destination.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
What sets us apart</h2>
What sets us apart is our blend of cutting-edge AI technology, meaningful work, and a culture where people truly thrive. We&rsquo;re a team of innovators, researchers, and creators driven by a shared purpose to unlock human potential by making work simpler, smarter, and more connected.
When we share what it&rsquo;s like to work at DeepL, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. This might be because of our technology that helps millions of people and businesses communicate and work better every day, or because of the trust, curiosity, and care that shape our culture.
What we know for sure is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team dedicated to innovation, growth, and well-being. Discover more about life at DeepL onLinkedIn,Instagram, and our Blog.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Meet the team behind this journey</h2>
A good translation is accurate. A translation an organisation can actually publish has to use their words, follow their style, and sound like them. That is what this team builds.
Customisation used to be a feature inside our translator. It is now a pillar of an enterprise platform. A customer's terminology, style rules and translation memory apply to documents and presentations, run inside multi step translation flows, and feed quality evaluation that understands which customisations were applied. It is one of the clearest reasons large organisations choose DeepL and stay with us.
We own that surface end to end: glossaries and terminology, style rules, style profiles and translation memory, along with the sharing and administration that let an organisation govern all of it. We work alongside a research team who build the models that apply a customer's voice to the translation itself, which makes this one of the more genuinely collaborative engineering roles at DeepL.
Your responsibilities<ul><li>
Lead, grow and develop a small, senior full stack team, and set its technical direction across services and the customer-facing web experience.</li><li>
Own the customisation surface end to end: terminology and glossaries, style rules, style profiles, translation memory, and the sharing and administration around them.</li><li>
Shape the product, not just deliver it. Work with your product manager and designer to define how customisation should actually feel to use, and bring a point of view of your own rather than waiting for a specification.</li><li>
Challenge what we are shipping. The biggest wins available here are the unglamorous ones: making it possible to organise, find and trust a large set of customisations rather than being buried by them. We want someone who spots those and argues for them.</li><li>
Take responsibility for whether customers use what we build, not just whether we ship it. Find out where people drop out of the journey and close those gaps.</li><li>
Reduce the setup burden. Make configuring customisation something an administrator can do confidently on their own rather than something that needs weeks of guided onboarding.</li><li>
Partner with our research colleagues to bring adaptive, context-aware personalisation from prototype into a product customers trust, including the transparency that lets them see why a translation was personalised.</li><li>
Look after customer-owned assets properly. Glossaries and translation memories are what our customers have invested most in, and they need to be safe, portable and correctly scoped.</li><li>
Work across research, product, design, platform, identity and go-to-market teams, and turn what customers are hitting into engineering priorities leadership can act on.</li></ul>
Qualities we look for<ul><li>
You have worked closely with product and design to define user experience, not just to receive requirements from it. You can point to a product decision that was better because you were in the room.</li><li>
You challenge the brief. You have talked a team out of building the wrong thing, or into building something nobody had asked for, and you can explain how you made the case.</li><li>
You have managed engineers on a customer-facing B2B product, and you can describe what changed for those customers as a result.</li><li>
You are technically solid enough to earn the trust of very experienced engineers. You will not be the deepest person in the room on every topic, and you do not need to be, but you do need to hold your own in a design discussion.</li><li>
You have owned an adoption or engagement problem and moved the number. You know the difference between shipping a capability and getting people to use it.</li><li>
You are comfortable leading a full stack team spanning backend services and a customer-facing web experience, and you do not quietly favour one.</li><li>
You have worked alongside a research or applied science team on a jointly developed feature, and you know how to make that handover work in both directions.</li><li>
You prioritise ruthlessly. The surface here is wide for the size of the team and you would rather do three things properly than eight partially.</li><li>
You are based in London, or willing to be, and comfortable working from the office two days per week.</li><li>
Useful but not required: experience with terminology management, translation memory or localisation workflows, or with enterprise administration surfaces such as sharing, roles and entitlements.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
What we offer</h2><ul><li>
Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presence is growing&ndash;we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.</li><li>
Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and growth mindset makes us better together.</li><li>
Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week. This allows you to engage directly with your team and experience the unique energy of our workspace, while still enjoying the flexibility and comfort of working from home. With flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, we are in sync with your team&rsquo;s general locations and time zones to foster effective and seamless collaboration.</li><li>
Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role. We believe everyone should share in our success, and that&rsquo;s why every employee receives Virtual Shares, linking your contribution directly to DeepL&rsquo;s growth and rewarding you with a stake in our future.</li><li>
Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team, from local team and business unit gatherings, to new-joiner onboardings, to company-wide events that bring us all together&ndash;literally.</li><li>
Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you're passionate about and get the opportunity to work with other teams&ndash;we value your initiatives, impact, and creativity.</li><li>
30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources, we make sure you're as strong mentally as you are professionally.</li><li>
Competitive benefits: just as our team spans the globe, so does our benefits package. We've crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location, to ensure you feel supported every step of the way.</li></ul>
If this role and our mission resonate with you, but you're hesitant because you don't check all the boxes, don't let that hold you back. At DeepL, it's all about the value you bring and the growth we can foster together. Go ahead, apply&mdash;let's discover your potential together. We can't wait to meet you!<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
We are an equal opportunity employer</h2>
You are welcome at DeepL for who you are - we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It&rsquo;s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.</div>

Engineering Manager | Customisation Hub

BlueOptima

<div>Company Description 
BlueOptima gives CIOs, CTOs and CFOs objective, code-level visibility into software productivity, AI ROI, and engineering cost. This is a problem that until recently could not be measured at all. With AI-generated code now flowing into enterprise codebases at scale, that measurement gap has become a board-level priority.
10B+ code revisions analysed &middot; 800,000+ developers on platform &middot; 9 of the top 16 universal banks
The business is profitable, bootstrapped, and 20 years deep in enterprise relationships. You are joining a sales organisation that is mid-build. The foundations are in place, the product has genuine enterprise traction, and there is real room to grow fast.
Buyers are CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering and CFO stakeholders at large software engineering organisations. The conversation is about developer productivity, engineering cost, and AI ROI. These are budget-backed problems that sit at the top of the technology agenda right now. You are not convincing anyone the problem exists. 
Job Description 
You will lead a team of Account Executives working on enterprise accounts across the UK and EMEA, with deal sizes typically in the &pound;100k to &pound;200k ARR range. You will be cultivating a culture of success and continuous improvement through your coaching. Your leadership will guide the team through complex sales cycles and ambitious growth targets.
You will use sales data and team performance metrics to identify opportunities for improvement. Implement actionable insights to enhance sales tactics and team productivity, leveraging coaching frameworks to work side by side with your team members.
You will work in close partnership with Marketing and SDR leadership to identify new pipeline generation opportunities, and with Customer Success leadership to surface expansion opportunities within the install base. 
Qualifications 
Required<ul><li>
Enterprise SaaS sales leadership: At least 3 years managing sales teams closing complex enterprise deals in the &pound;100k to &pound;200k+ ARR range.</li><li>
Engineering domain experience: Direct experience selling into software engineering organisations is required. This means you have sold developer tooling, engineering analytics, observability, SDLC platforms, or similar products and can hold a credible technical conversation with VP Engineering and CTO buyers without leaning on a solutions engineer. You do not need to have been a developer, but you do need to understand how software gets built.</li><li>
Executive-level selling: Comfortable engaging CIO, CTO, VP Engineering and CFO buyers. You can hold the room with credibility and navigate multi-stakeholder deal structures.</li><li>
Hands-on coaching style: Demonstrated ability to develop your team through direct involvement in sales activities, including joint calls and co-selling, to ensure team members reach their potential.</li><li>
Data-driven decision making: Highly analytical, you leverage pipeline and performance data to make informed decisions and adapt quickly to capitalise on new opportunities.</li><li>
Structured sales methodology: Exposure to value-based selling methodologies and the MEDDPICC discovery framework in multi-stakeholder environments.</li></ul>
Valued<ul><li>
Experience with AI products, AI governance, or engineering productivity measurement.</li><li>
Background in land-and-expand motions within large enterprise accounts.</li><li>
Open to using AI to amplify your own skills and strengthen your work, demonstrating curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgement in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.</li></ul> 

Additional Information 
Why This Role Makes Sense Right Now 
AI governance and engineering ROI measurement have moved from nice-to-have to board priority in the last 18 months. The buyers are funded, the problem is urgent, and BlueOptima is one of the very few companies with a production-grade answer. For a sales leader who wants to work with a team closing real enterprise deals, not chasing SMB volume, the timing is good.
Where This Leads 
The natural progression from this role is into second-line leadership. That path is defined and is based on performance and the growth of the company, not tenure.
Benefits we offer<ul><li>
London HQ, 3 days in office, 2 remote</li><li>
32 days holiday including bank holidays</li><li>
12 weeks paid maternity and paternity leave</li><li>
4 weeks per year flexible remote working from anywhere</li><li>
Annual leave purchase up to 10 extra days</li><li>
Work from home equipment allowance</li><li>
Pet friendly office</li><li>
Sponsored learning opportunities</li><li>
Cycle to work scheme</li><li>
Team socials</li></ul><div></div>
Stay connected with us on LinkedIn or keep an eye on our career page for future opportunities!</div>

Sales Manager, Revenue Generation - EMEA

Orbital

<div>Orbital Industries is an AI Industrial company, with frontier AI embedded at every step in the production of critical physical products - from creating advanced materials to engineering and manufacturing.
Every Orbital Industries product is developed using CurieOS, our AI operating system, uniting AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science to achieve breakthrough real-world performance. We also offer CurieOS to our customers and partners, extending the same platform and workflows that power Orbital Industries to their own teams and products.
We have an ambitious mission and need excellent people in all our teams - AI research, operations, advanced materials, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and manufacturing.
Working at Orbital Industries means working in vertically integrated teams across the full stack, from molecules to manufacturing. We're looking for people who have a love of physical technology, curiosity in AI and a desire to learn.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Role Overview
</h2>Orbital's AI software platform, CurieOS, is used by scientists and engineers to design and build products serving critical industries. Powering this software are our world leading AI models in advanced materials, hardware engineering and simulation.
As Forward Deployed Engineering Lead at Orbital you will build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning its technical standards, delivery model and team. You are an engineering leader who builds alongside customers, not a delivery leader who manages engineers. You will deliver complex deployments hands-on while hiring and developing the team that scales this capability across Orbital's growing customer base.
First and foremost, we want to work with someone with a love of craftsmanship, continual learning and building systems that scale.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Key Responsibilities</h2>
Deliver deployments hands-on, across the breadth of industrial R&amp;D<ul><li>
Drive customer adoption so CurieOS becomes how their scientists and engineers work day-to-day</li><li>
Deliver complex customer deployments hands-on, writing production code, designing architectures, building integrations and debugging issues across CurieOS and customer systems</li><li>
Own the technical quality of deployments from prototype through production, including reliability, maintainability and operational performance</li><li>
Design and build systems that connect heterogeneous software, data and physical infrastructure, from simulation campaigns and digital twins to lab instruments, test rigs and CAD/PLM systems</li><li>
Develop reusable integration patterns that allow CurieOS to operate reliably across complex customer environments</li></ul>
Own delivery end-to-end<ul><li>
Embed with customer teams to understand ambiguous, high-value R&amp;D problems, challenge assumptions and identify where CurieOS can deliver meaningful impact</li><li>
Translate those problems into a technical approach, milestones and acceptance criteria, making pragmatic architecture and scope trade-offs as you learn</li><li>
Own the engagement from initial technical discovery through implementation, production deployment and adoption</li><li>
Set KPIs per engagement (screening throughput, design-cycle reduction, experiments avoided), measure pre/post and report outcomes to executive sponsors</li></ul>
Build and lead the team<ul><li>
Build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning its technical standards, engineering practices and delivery model</li><li>
Hire, develop and manage exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers across diverse scientific and engineering domains</li><li>
Set the technical bar through code and architecture review, and act as the escalation point for the most difficult technical decisions and production issues</li><li>
Staff engagements based on technical complexity and individual strengths, while developing engineers into increasingly independent technical leaders</li><li>
Codify successful approaches into reusable architectures, tooling and playbooks so the team becomes more effective as it scales</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
What We&rsquo;re Looking For
</h2><ul><li>Significant experience in enterprise software technical delivery or forward deployed engineering roles, you have led complex deployments and written production code alongside customers</li><li>
Experience building a forward deployed engineering or solutions function, hiring the team, setting the standards and defining the delivery model</li><li>
The ability to move fluidly between strategy conversations with R&amp;D leadership and debugging sessions with engineers</li><li>
A track record of succeeding in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where requirements evolve through direct iteration with users</li><li>
Strong software engineering fundamentals, you still build, and your technical judgement is respected by the engineers you lead</li><li>
A genuine interest in building software that enables breakthrough scientific and industrial applications</li></ul>
Orbital is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</div>

Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

Avanade

<div>
 We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative
 
 Lead Agentic AI Engineer
 
 to join our team and drive the design, development, and deployment of production-grade generative AI and agentic solutions using Microsoft technologies.
 
 
 This role is ideal for a technically strong engineer who has hands-on experience building AI solutions, orchestrating agentic workflows, implementing evaluation frameworks, and taking solutions into secure, scalable, and cost-optimised production environments using platforms such as
 
 Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Copilot Studio.
 
 
 
 
 
 Key Responsibilities:
 
 
 
 
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 Take ownership of technical solution design and architecture decisions, bringing clarity from ambiguous client requirements
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 Act as the technical lead on projects, guiding implementation approach, engineering standards, and best practices
 </li>
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 Design, develop, and deploy Agentic AI and GenAI solutions in enterprise environments
 </li>
 <li>
 Lead end-to-end solution delivery, from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and handover
 </li>
 <li>
 Make clear technical design decisions that support scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
 </li>
 <li>
 Lead and mentor junior team members, helping them deliver high-quality outcomes and grow their technical capability
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in agile environments
 </li>
 <li>
 Manage technical stakeholders and client conversations, translating business needs into practical AI solution designs
 </li>
 <li>
 Support or lead pre-sales activities, including solution shaping, technical estimations, demos, proposals, and client discussions
 </li>
 <li>
 Lead implementation during delivery, ensuring the proposed solution is built to the agreed architecture and quality standards
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 
 Qualifications
 
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 Core technical skills
 
 
 
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 Hands-on experience with LLMs such as OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini or Mistral
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 Experience designing and building agentic AI solutions, including tool use, workflow orchestration, routing, memory, and multi-agent patterns
 </li>
 <li>
 Expertise in prompt engineering, structured outputs, and reliability patterns to optimise model performance
 </li>
 <li>
 Ability to implement evaluation frameworks for quality, grounding, task success, safety, latency, and cost
 </li>
 <li>
 Experience deploying AI solutions into production with focus on cost optimisation, scalability, observability, security, and governance
 </li>
 <li>
 Experienced in using Microsoft GenAI ecosystem, including M365, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft Agent Framework
 </li>
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 Proficient in Python and production-quality code practices
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 Strong understanding of software engineering principles, architecture patterns, and delivery best practices
 </li>
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 Experience with API development using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django
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 Knowledge of Docker, containerised deployments, CI/CD, and cloud-native delivery patterns
 
 
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 Some of the best things about working at Avanade
 
 
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 A great place to work
 
 
 
 As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you&rsquo;ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You&rsquo;ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It&rsquo;s all here, so take a closer look!
 
 
 We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion &amp; Diversity page.
 
 
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Lead Agentic AI Engineer

Anaplan

<div><div>At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who's who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins &ndash; big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you'll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let's build what's next - together!</div>
Anaplan has an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Manager to lead the Environment Tooling team within Platform Engineering, and at the forefront of our ongoing DevOps and Platform transformation.

The Environment Tooling team is a cornerstone of our Platform Engineering organisation. They own and maintain our core GitOps deployment pipeline and drive developer experience tooling. Looking forward, the Environment Tooling team will expand its scope to lead our Next-Generation Environment Strategy - taking named ownership of our non-production environments and building automated orchestration and self-healing systems for the path to production.

As the manager of the Environment Tooling team, your passion will be coaching and building a talented team of platform engineers while balancing mission-critical operational stability with bold, strategic initiatives. You will lead a team of six engineers and report to the Senior Director, Platform Engineering.

You will join a collaborative engineering community that embraces diverse perspectives, isn't afraid to push boundaries, and is passionate about helping our customers and each other succeed.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Your impact:</h2>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Leadership &amp; People Management</h3>
<ul><li>Coaching &amp; Talent Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing platform engineers, ensuring individual career development, clear goals, and continuous skill building.</li>
<li>Team Wellbeing &amp; Culture: Foster a safe, inclusive, and motivated team culture. Prioritise healthy work-life balance and operational readiness.</li>
<li>Agile &amp; Process Execution: Embrace a pragmatic Agile mindset to continuously refine team processes, manage sprint commitments, remove blockers, and deliver value iteratively.</li>
<li>Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with peer platform managers, security, and software development leaders to align on roadmaps, boundaries, and shared goals.</li>
<li>Project &amp; Initiative Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of Environment Tooling initiatives, from scoping and planning through sequencing dependencies, tracking milestones, managing risk, and reporting progress to stakeholders.</li>
</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Platform Ownership &amp; Operations</h3>
<ul><li>Argo CD &amp; GitOps Core: Lead the active engineering ownership, architectural hardening, scalability, and operational support for Argo CD across the entire platform.</li>
<li>Feature Flagging Infrastructure: Govern platform-wide feature flagging tools and setting the technology strategy.</li>
<li>Operational Readiness &amp; On-Call: Direct the team's dedicated on-call rotation to ensure deployment pipeline stability and smooth release execution during critical downtime windows.</li>
</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Strategic Vision: Next-Generation Environments &amp; Non-Prod Ownership</h3>
<ul><li>Named Non-Prod Ownership: Establish the Environment Tooling team as the owner, guardian, and governance authority for all non-production environments across the path to production.</li>
<li>Local Development: Provide and support modern developer environments, such as local Tilt workflows on developer laptops backed by cloud-hosted services.</li>
<li>Environment Orchestration &amp; Tooling Development: Design and build overarching orchestration systems and new platform tooling to tear down and rebuild non-prod environments on demand. This includes:</li>
<li>Building New Core Capabilities: Architect and develop new internal tooling to automatically generate mock test data, manage environment test states, and provision test user identities.</li>
<li>Integrating Platform Pipelines: Connect orchestration workflows with infrastructure automation systems (for cluster provisioning and teardown) and service hydration pipelines.</li>
<li>Automated Self-Healing &amp; Guardrails: Implement automated tooling to instantly detect when a deployment breaks a non-prod environment and execute an immediate rollback.</li>
<li>Environment Governance: Define and enforce standards and usage policies for non-production environments across all engineering teams.</li>
</ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Your skills:</h2>
<ul><li>Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering teams as a manager or senior tech lead with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving key technical decisions. (First-time managers with strong aptitude and relevant lead experience are encouraged to apply)</li>
<li>Platform &amp; GitOps Expertise: Deep technical understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, GitOps workflows (Argo CD), Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration.</li>
<li>Pragmatic &amp; Iterative Mindset: Strong commitment to delivering value early and often, prioritising continuous improvement over single-burst perfectionism.</li>
<li>Developer Experience Focus: Passion for simplifying the developer inner loop and building frictionless, self-service platform tooling.</li>
<li>Clear Communicator: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of setting clear expectations, maintaining roadmap transparency, and establishing technical governance.</li>
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Technologies that the team works with:
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<li>Deployment &amp; GitOps: Argo CD</li>
<li>Feature Flagging: LaunchDarkly</li>
<li>Developer Tooling: Tilt</li>
<li>Infrastructure &amp; Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS / GKE), Docker, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators</li>
<li>Internal Automation &amp; Pipelines: Infrastructure Automation, Service Hydration Pipelines</li>
<li>Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP</li>
<li>Languages: Go, Java</li>
</ul><div>
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren't just words on paper &ndash; this is what drives our innovation, it's how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not:
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<li>Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.</li>
<li>Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.</li>
</ul>
All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to people@anaplan.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.

Candidate data processed during our recruitment activities is handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice. This may include the use of artificial intelligence or automated tools to assist our team in evaluating qualifications.</div></div>

Engineering Manager - Platform

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