Development Manager, AI Solutions

About the Company:

JAGGAER provides an intelligent Source-to-Pay and Supplier Collaboration Platform that empowers organizations to manage and automate complex processes while enabling a highly resilient, responsible, and integrated supplier base. With 30 years of expertise, we specialize in solving complex procurement and supply chain challenges across various industries.

Our 1,200+ global employees are obsessed with ensuring customers get full value from our products - ultimately enhancing and transforming their businesses. For more information, visit

www.jaggaer.com

Job Description

Principal Responsibilities:

Deliver AI Capabilities: Lead the development and delivery of AI-powered solutions to support internal business needs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.

AI Advisory Role: Act as a key AI advisor for internal stakeholders, educating and promoting the use of AI across different teams to solve business problems and drive operational efficiencies.

Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of data scientists and full-stack developers, guiding the team on architecture, design patterns, and implementation best practices. Ensure smooth day-to-day operations, code quality, and technical direction. Participate in the design and implementation of supporting infrastructure services to ensure scalability and robustness.

Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with various internal departments to gather and document detailed requirements for AI features. Translate business needs into technical requirements that can be efficiently executed by the development team.

AI Model Development Best Practices: Establish and maintain best practices for the full AI model development lifecycle, including data preparation, model training, model evaluation, version control, and MLOps for the deployment and monitoring of AI models.

Agile Methodology: Promote and implement best practices for software development, including coding standards, code reviews, source management, build automation, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Team Building & Hiring: Play a critical role in hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of data scientists and full-stack developers. Foster a culture of continuous learning and development within the team.

Position Requirements:

Experience in Leadership: Minimum of 3+ years of experience as a technical manager, team lead, or in a similar leadership role overseeing data scientists and developers.

Technical Experience: 7+ years of experience in software development with deep knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of web application architecture. 3+ years of experience in Data science-related work with a strong focus on delivering AI-driven solutions.

AI/ML Proficiency: In-depth knowledge and familiarity with a wide range of AI/ML algorithms, including statistical models, probabilistic methods, deep learning architectures, and Large Language Models (LLMs). Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture is a strong plus.

Cloud Experience: Practical experience with cloud-based data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, or other similar platforms.

Technical Tools & Frameworks: Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or similar. Experience with machine learning libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), MLOps tools, version control (e.g., Git), and CI/CD pipelines.

Agile & Project Management: Prior experience working in Agile development environments. Proficiency with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent.

Communication & Collaboration: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proven ability to work cross-functionally with business teams, developers, and data scientists.

Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify and resolve complex technical and business problems.

What we offer

- A positive, friendly, and international working environment

- A trust-based flexible working environment

Our values:

Our values are at the core of who we are at JAGGAER. You will see these values entrenched in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products, and in the culture we've created.

Be Collaborative: Foster a culture of mutual respect, working effectively and productively with others, and sharing responsibility for team success.

Be Accountable: Take ownership, learn from challenges, be proactive, and rise above one's circumstances to achieve the result.

Be Adaptable: Embrace change, encourage innovation, and remain effective when experiencing major change.

Kindly note that only applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted.

JAGGAER is a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer supporting workforce diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, caregiver status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, genetic information, military, or veteran status, mental or physical disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

* Prior to an offer of employment your name will be checked against regulatory and law enforcement lists of individuals who are restricted parties under applicable laws and regulations. Your data will be processed and stored in JAGGAER systems hosted in the Netherlands and/or Belgium for purposes of these required screening activities. All data will be deleted after three Months.