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Director of Data & AI
Up £130,000 + strong benefits
Hybrid | London
We're working with an established enterprise midway through a major data transformation to find a Director of Data & AI who will own the strategy, architecture and governance of the entire data estate. This is a Director of Data & AI role for a senior leader who can set the destination and the guardrails, then trust strong leads to deliver within them. You'll be the senior voice of data and AI to the executive, turning business ambition into a clear roadmap, and turning technical reality back into trade-offs the business can act on.
Responsibilities as a Director of Data & AI:
- Define and own the multi-year data and AI strategy, roadmap and business case, aligned to enterprise priorities
- Set the directional architecture for the data estate and hold it to modern engineering and cost-control standards
- Own enterprise data governance end to end: cataloguing, lineage, quality, access control and the privacy and regulatory posture
- Establish a semantic layer and certified datasets as the single source of truth, driving definitional consistency across the business
- Enable data science and ML teams with governed data and a clear path to production through strong practices and responsible AI standards
- Lead and grow the data capability, line-managing a team of senior technical leads
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Requirements:
- Substantial experience in data engineering, platform or data and AI roles, including several years in senior leadership
- Proven track record building and governing an enterprise-scale data platform, ideally through a transformation or migration while keeping the lights on
- Deep expertise in modern cloud data platform and Lakehouse architecture patterns
- Strong experience with enterprise data governance tooling and practice
- Solid grasp of the ML and AI lifecycle, plus working knowledge of data modelling and semantic layers
- A credible player-coach Director of Data & AI who earns the respect of engineers and scientists, and explains technical trade-offs to executives clearly and calmly
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Benefits:
- A director-level mandate to shape the enterprise data and AI strategy from the front
- Genuine scope to build a modern, governed platform rather than inherit someone else's
- A seat at the executive table as the senior voice of data and AI
- A strong leadership team around you, with capable leads owning delivery
- Hybrid working
- Competitive package and benefits (to confirm with the client)
If you're a Director of Data & AI who wants real ownership of both the strategy and the platform, and the diplomacy to drive a business, this is worth a conversation. Bring the technical credibility and the commercial instinct, and you'll set the direction for how an entire organisation uses its data.
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