Senior AI Platform Engineer - MCP & Agentic Infrastructure

At adidas, every day is a chance to flip the script. An invitation to take everything we know and re-invent it. Do it better. Never settling for good enough.   Every day we get up, invent, adapt, improvise, find new ways to collaborate, and do the unexpected. We’re creators, makers and doers. Helping athletes make a difference, not just in their games, but in their lives and in their world.   It’s an obsession. We’ve been doing this for more than 75 years. With an unmatched history and tradition of creating iconic products, consumer connections and experiences, we’ve been defining sport culture since the beginning.   And we’re never done. Come be a part of shaping the future together with us.   IT STARTS WITH YOU   SENIOR AI PLATFORM ENGINEER - MCP & AGENTIC INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM ENGINEERING - FIP ( Fast Insights Platform ) PURPOSE Platform Engineering designs, builds and operates the platforms our application teams rely on. Our goal is to unlock the potential of those teams so they spend more time on business value — increasing velocity and reducing time to market — while the enterprise scales on shared, secure, well-engineered platforms and services. The Fast Insights Platform Team is driving the next generation of software development across adidas. We provide developers with cutting-edge AI capabilities, from enterprise LLM access to agentic coding tools, while ensuring security, governance, and scalability across the company. We are also shaping the future of enterprise AI agents at adidas. By operating the platform for agentic workloads on AWS, we provide reusable AgentCore-based building blocks, reference architectures, governance frameworks, and security guardrails that empower teams to innovate quickly while meeting enterprise standards for reliability, compliance, and scale. This is a hands-on platform engineering role focused on the infrastructure, tooling and governance behind enterprise AI.   KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Maintains expert knowledge in one or more specialisms, provides authoritative specialist advice, oversees advice delivery, and promotes internal knowledge sharing.  Monitors emerging technologies, assessing potential impacts, threats, and opportunities, and contributes to reports and technology roadmaps.  Take end-to-end ownership of epics and initiatives within the platform - from understanding requirements through solution design, implementation and operation. Design, code, test, document and refactor complex software, choosing the right approach and applying engineering standards and tools. Propose, own and implement technical improvements (e.g. monitoring, system stability, reliability, operability) balancing impact and cost. Build and operate the platform reliably: define and track SLAs/SLOs, reduce incidents and toil, and automate operational work. Lead code reviews for peers and contribute to the platform's technical roadmap, aligned with the domain strategy and in close collaboration with the platform owner. Coordinate the day-to-day delivery of complex, multi-faceted work with the relevant stakeholders across teams. Act as an active mentor for equal- or lower-grade colleagues, onboard new team members, and contribute to communities of practice.

College or university degree with focus on IT, or equivalent combination of education and experience.  7 years of IT experience, with exposure to the full product development lifecycle and/or software development of REST APIs, Web applications or Platform Development. 2 years of proven experience leading complex technical initiatives, mentoring other engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams.  Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Proficient English skills (verbal and written). Required technical skills:

Strong software engineering experience using TypeScript, Python or another modern programming language.