AI Engineering Manager
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 (e.g. Flint) 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.
- 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 (TDA) 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.
- Strong experience as a senior or lead engineer in backend or full stack development (required).
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex distributed systems (required).
- Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, DynamoDB, etc.) (required).
- Strong understanding of system design, APIs, and microservices architecture (required).
- Experience working in agile environments with modern engineering practices (required).
- Experience working with AI/ML systems or integrating with LLMs (e.g. Amazon Bedrock or similar) (preferred).
- Knowledge of multi-tenant architectures and platform engineering concepts (preferred).
- Experience with observability, security, and governance in enterprise systems (preferred).
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and data pipelines (preferred).
Flutter Entertainment is the world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, operating some of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands in the sector. The UK & Ireland region of Flutter unites some of the biggest brands in the betting and gaming industry; Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars, Sky Betting & Gaming and tombola - bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.