Senior AI Engineering Manager, Matillion
AI data automation platform
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AI data automation platform
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower data teams to build and manage pipelines faster for AI and analytics - at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Agentic-first leadership experience – You’ve led high-performing engineering teams operating agentically by default, and understand the challenges this brings beyond traditional team leadership. This is a baseline requirement to succeed in the role
- Hands-on familiarity with agentic tooling – You’ve used or explored tools like Claude Code or Codex. This isn’t about being hands-on day-to-day, but about credibility and informed decision-making around tooling, ways of working, and system design in an AI-native context
- Strong SaaS and software engineering fundamentals – You’re comfortable in Java and Python environments, building cloud-native SaaS systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and privacy. You can reason about architecture and engage confidently in technical discussions
- Exceptional stakeholder management – This role spans multiple functions, so you’ll build strong relationships across Product, Design, SRE, Security, and beyond, operating as a trusted partner across the organisation
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change – You thrive without fixed long-term roadmaps, shaping high-level direction into clear execution plans. You adapt quickly, embrace change, and see fast-moving environments as energising rather than disruptive
- Sound decision-making under pressure – You can translate strategic direction into clear priorities and make confident decisions even when information is incomplete
- Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience
What the job involves
- Maia is Matillion's AI data automation platform - and this is your opportunity to lead the team at the heart of this platform
- This is a cross-functional engineering team working at the cutting edge of agentic AI, developing and evolving the core services that power Maia
- As Senior Engineering Manager for the Maia Core team, you will lead a high-performing, fast-paced, high-conviction group of engineers whose work is central to Matillion's overall strategy
- You will have direct exposure to the executive team, and the decisions your team makes will shape the direction of the product and the company
- You are an engineering leader, not an individual contributor, but technical credibility is non-negotiable
- You must be able to hold your own in a team operating at the frontier of AI engineering, understand the nuances of building and running agentic harnesses, and have first-hand experience using agentic AI tools in an engineering context
- The right candidate leads teams who work agentically by default, navigating the unique challenges that come with it, and thriving in that environment
- Above all, you will inspire, motivate, and coach your team to do career defining work - in one of the most exciting engineering domains there is
- Engineering management at Matillion is built around three disciplines: People, Service, and Delivery. In this role, you'll lead across all three within a team operating at the forefront of agentic AI, where the pace is fast, the expectations are high, and the impact is significant
- People:
- Your team spans two distinct groups, and your leadership style will need to flex accordingly. At one end are highly experienced engineers who need alignment more than coaching. At the other is a cohort of AI-native engineers with enormous potential, where your role is to develop engineering craft, shape ways of working, and create opportunities for growth
- Beyond your direct reports, you'll build strong partnerships across Product, Design, Marketing, Customer Support, and Field Engineering. The Maia Core team sits at the heart of the platform, making collaboration a critical part of the role
- Service:
- You'll own the core agentic harness that powers Maia and the services underpinning its capabilities. That means leading incident management, observability, monitoring, alerting, and overall service health - foundational disciplines for an enterprise SaaS platform
- We're looking for someone who can modernise how this is done by embracing AI-powered approaches that reduce operational overhead while improving reliability and engineering efficiency. You'll help set the standard for service ownership across Matillion
- Delivery:
- You'll create the conditions for your team to deliver at pace without compromising quality. As Maia continues to evolve rapidly, you'll continually optimise how the team works, making the most of the latest agentic tooling while keeping customers at the centre of every decision
- Given the strategic importance of Maia, you'll regularly communicate delivery progress and service health directly to executive leadership
Our take
In order to make the world’s data more useful, Matillion offers a data integration and transformation platform. Essentially, the company turns raw data into an analytics-ready asset to help companies make better decisions. In 2025 it launched Maia, the industry’s first AI data automation platform.
As organisations search for ways to harness data for business intelligence, the market for Matillion’s offerings is expanding, and the company has assumed a forefront position. Its strong reputation has secured large enterprise clients like FOX, Sony, Slack and Cisco.
The company is well-funded and boasts a strong valuation, showing that it has cemented its place in the sector. With Maia, Matillion proves it is able to adapt to the evolving business data landscape, delivering expert AI agents that can handle time-consuming data work and free up teams to focus on delivering business goals faster.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $310.8m
Company benefits
- A culture that promotes work life balance
- Access to mental health support
- 25 days holiday
- 5 days paid volunteering leave
- Pension
- Career development with monthly hackdays, access to a Udemy account, Blinkist and much more
Company HQ
Salford, UK
Leadership
Ed Thompson
(CTO)Previously acted as an IBM Software Consultant for Real Solutions and as an Integration Team Leader for Imtech ICT.
Matthew Scullion
(CEO & Founder)Previously acted as Software Division Director for Imtech ICT and as Director for Real Solutions.
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