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With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.\nAbout the role:\nAs a Senior Engineering Manager, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Senior Engineering Manager to lead a greenfield build of our agentic AI systems - autonomous, multi-step workflows where AI agents plan, use tools, and act with minimal human intervention. 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