ShareForce
Head of Data & AI Platforms
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Head of Data & AI Platforms
£100,000–£110,000 + Bonus + Benefits
UK | Remote / Hybrid
ShareForce is partnering with a fast-growing, nationwide wealth management business to appoint a Head of Data & AI Platforms. Managing more than £8.7bn in assets and employing over 180 people, the organisation is making a significant investment in AI, technology and its data estate as it enters its next phase of growth. Reporting to the CITO / Transformation Director and working within a specialist AI Pod, you will own the architecture, engineering and governance of the data and platform capabilities underpinning its production AI solutions.
This is a senior and highly influential position combining strategic leadership with hands-on technical delivery. You will establish the secure, scalable and trusted foundations required for Azure AI Foundry agents to operate within live, FCA-regulated adviser journeys. This is not a traditional reporting or business intelligence role. It is an opportunity to build the data and AI platform capability behind a major transformation programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and deliver the enterprise strategy and target architecture for data and AI platforms.
- Design end-to-end solutions across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Azure AI Foundry, Dataverse and third-party systems.
- Establish scalable platform patterns for AI agents, RAG, embeddings and intelligent automation.
- Build and optimise cloud-native pipelines that provide trusted, production-ready data to AI applications.
- Develop transformation, cleansing and enrichment processes for structured and unstructured information.
- Implement data quality frameworks covering validation, monitoring, exception management and automated remediation.
- Design transcript and AI data pipelines supporting adviser workflows and automation.
- Lead data quality assurance across CRM migrations and wider transformation programmes.
- Establish governance covering lineage, ownership, classification, access control, retention and auditability.
- Ensure data and AI platforms meet FCA expectations, UK GDPR requirements and internal security standards.
- Produce architecture documentation, data models and governance artefacts suitable for executive and regulatory audiences.
- Partner with AI, engineering, IT, Transformation and business teams to define platform priorities and delivery roadmaps.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and advise leadership on platform investment, architecture and risk.
- Act as the organisation’s senior authority for data and AI platform design.
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About You
- A strong track record of designing and delivering enterprise data platforms and cloud-native engineering solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake or a comparable modern data platform.
- Experience designing platforms that support AI, machine learning, RAG or intelligent automation.
- Expertise in production pipelines, transformation frameworks and scalable data modelling.
- Strong SQL and Python skills, including Pandas, PySpark or equivalent technologies.
- Deep knowledge of data quality engineering, observability, validation and automated remediation.
- Experience integrating Azure services, REST APIs and enterprise applications.
- A sound understanding of cloud security, identity, access control and platform resilience.
- The ability to define strategy while remaining close to architecture and engineering delivery.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including communicating complex technical decisions to senior leaders.
- Experience in a regulated environment where governance, security and data quality are business-critical.
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Desirable Experience
- Microsoft Dataverse and Dynamics 365.
- Azure AI Foundry and agent-based architectures.
- UK financial services, wealth management or another FCA-regulated environment.
- Consumer Duty and modern data governance practices.
- LLM workloads, including RAG, embeddings, vector search and AI data preparation.
- Enterprise CRM migrations and large-scale data transformation.
- Microsoft Purview, Azure Data Factory, Synapse or related technologies.
- Wealth management platforms such as CashCalc or Oxford Risk.
Why Apply?
- Own the data and AI platform capability at a defining point in its evolution.
- Design the enterprise architecture from the ground up.
- Influence AI, data and technology strategy at executive level.
- Enable production AI solutions used within live, regulated adviser journeys.
- Join a major transformation programme backed by ambitious growth plans.
- Work with modern Microsoft data and AI technologies.
- Benefit from flexible remote working with access to regional UK offices.
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