Manager, Software Development - Generative AI - Hybrid, Glasgow, UK

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About the job

GenAI is the #2 R&D priority at SAS, and we're excited to announce a fantastic opportunity within Platform Services in Foundation R&D. We are on the hunt for a manager to lead the engineering team responsible for SAS’s central Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities—technology that will be at the heart of how SAS products and teams securely discover, retrieve, and use trusted information.

In this pivotal role, you will lead a talented team at the forefront of GenAI and information retrieval. Your mission will be to build, own, and evolve the robust RAG platform that enables SAS products, solutions, and internal teams to ingest, index, search, and ground AI experiences in public and enterprise documents. Through your leadership, teams across SAS will be able to create accurate, secure, and scalable GenAI features more quickly.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of enterprise RAG at SAS, transforming how we connect trusted knowledge with GenAI to serve our customers and stakeholders.

As the SAS RAG Engineering manager, you will:

• Organize, develop, prioritize, and assign resources to deliver high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines, while adhering to R&D best practices and processes.
• Lead development project designs and enforce technical standards to ensure solutions execute correctly across various supported environments (i.e. browsers, devices, operating systems).
• Proactively lead and solicit the involvement of other project stakeholders (e.g. managers, developers, user interface and visual designers, product managers) to ensure implementation satisfies functional requirements and is consistent with established R&D standards.
• Manage and lead project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alert executive management and stakeholders of concerns meeting schedules, while following established R&D standards.
• Manage product quality standards by ensuring functional, unit and performance testing is comprehensive and thorough; work closely with development and testing teams to verify test plans. Organize, prioritize, and assign resources to implement and resolve code changes related to enhancements, redesigns, and/or bug fixes.
• Contribute to product or project direction through collaboration with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customers, and others within SAS.
• Manage all aspects of the department including teamwork, performance management, feedback, professional growth through collaboration with SAS human resources, SAS education, and executive leadership.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity, and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.