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AI Lead Engineering Practices
Sheffield (or Birmingham) - Hybrid
£650 per day - inside IR35
6 month initial contract - excellent potential for longevity
We're supporting a major global financial services organisation who are looking to appoint an AI Lead to join their Global Engineering Practices team within the Chief Technology Office (CTO).
This is not a traditional AI engineering role focused on building AI products. Instead, you'll play a leading role in helping a large global engineering organisation adopt AI at scale. Working closely with senior engineering leaders, you'll help shape AI strategy, drive organisational adoption and improve engineering effectiveness by embedding AI into the way engineering teams work.
The successful candidate will combine strong technical credibility with experience influencing engineering organisations, driving change and helping engineers embrace new ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead AI adoption initiatives across a large global engineering organisation.
- Work alongside senior engineering leaders to define and implement the Engineering Practices AI strategy.
- Identify opportunities where AI can improve engineering productivity, developer experience and engineering effectiveness.
- Develop practical AI capabilities, integrations and tooling that support software engineering teams.
- Define engineering standards and best practices for the effective and responsible use of AI.
- Drive organisational adoption of AI, helping engineering teams understand, embrace and effectively utilise AI-enabled ways of working.
- Build and support an internal AI Community of Practice, encouraging knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Produce technical guidance, playbooks, demonstrations and reference implementations.
- Deliver workshops, showcases and engagement sessions to support AI adoption across engineering teams.
- Work closely with Architecture, Security and Risk teams to ensure AI initiatives align with organisational standards.
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Key Requirements
- Experience leading AI adoption or AI transformation initiatives within large engineering organisations.
- Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience of modern AI tooling and developer productivity platforms.
- Experience influencing engineering leaders and driving organisational change across multiple engineering teams.
- Demonstrable experience improving engineering effectiveness, developer experience or engineering capability through the adoption of AI.
- Experience defining engineering standards, best practices or technical governance.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Comfortable operating strategically whilst retaining sufficient technical credibility to engage engineering teams.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience within Financial Services or another large, regulated environment.
- Experience within Engineering Enablement, Engineering Excellence, Developer Experience (DevEx) or Engineering Transformation functions.
- Experience building or leading Engineering Communities of Practice.
- Familiarity with engineering effectiveness measures and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience introducing AI tooling across enterprise software engineering organisations.
Contract Details
- £650 per day
- Inside IR35
- Hybrid working Sheffield
- Potential for Birmingham to be considered for exceptional candidates (subject to client approval)
- Initial 6 month contract with strong potential for extension.
If you're passionate about helping engineering organisations adopt AI at scale and improving the way engineering teams work, we'd be pleased to hear from you. Please apply with your latest CV.
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