Wave Group
Data Product Lead
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About the Role
Our client, a PE-backed financial services scale-up, is looking for a hands-on data leader to help take their AI data strategy from roadmap to reality. This isn't a role for someone who oversees data strategy from a distance. It's for someone who has personally designed and shipped AI-native data products, working directly with business teams and end users to take them from concept through to live delivery. That could mean AI embedded within a data pipeline, an AI-enabled data product, or a solution that uses data to power AI-driven insights and experiences you built yourself.
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What you'll do
- Sit above an existing data team, diagnosing gaps and challenging vendor delivery (particularly around Databricks/AWS-based platforms), and coordinating internal talent with external vendors to keep delivery honest and on track.
- You'll be the bridge between data strategy and what actually gets built.
What we're looking for
- Proven, hands-on experience building agentic AI systems, AI agents, or AI-led data products, not just strategy or governance work.
- Strong cloud platform experience (AWS preferred).
- A track record of product-led thinking, not pure data quality, MDM, or data governance work.
- Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders and end users, not just technical teams.
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Nice to have
- Financial services, insurance, or pensions background — though we're just as interested in strong AI-delivery experience from other sectors.
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