Organisational Technology Enablement

• Shape and deliver ARIA’s strategy for technology-enabled organisational improvement, data and AI enablement, identifying opportunities to improve organisational effectiveness.
• Establish clear and effective ways for teams across ARIA to engage with the Data & Tech function, helping them identify the right approach, whether through internal capability, partners or other solutions.
• Enable teams across ARIA to experiment and automate through well-designed platforms, tooling, reusable services and architectural guardrails.
• Partner with leaders across ARIA to understand organisational needs, identify technology opportunities and make informed trade-offs that deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Provide clear technical direction on data, internal products, engineering and AI-enabled technologies, ensuring ARIA makes effective choices about how these capabilities are designed, built and evolved.

Architecture, Platforms & Governance

• Lead the design and stewardship of the architecture for ARIA’s data, internal products, integrations and engineering platforms, ensuring solutions remain interoperable, secure and sustainable.
• Establish technical standards, governance frameworks and deployment patterns that enable innovation without creating fragmentation or unmanaged risk.
• Oversee platform engineering, technical lifecycle management, providing the foundations needed to develop, deploy and operate internal solutions effectively.
• Partner closely with IT Operations to ensure Data & Tech capabilities meet ARIA’s security, resilience and operational requirements.

Product, Engineering & Data

• Lead the development of product management practices, ensuring technology opportunities are shaped around user needs, organisational priorities and measurable outcomes, from discovery through to delivery and ongoing improvement.
• Oversee the design, build and operationalisation of internal products, workflows, automations and integrations, balancing speed of delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Establish and evolve product, engineering and data-development practices that enable ARIA to develop and maintain high-quality technology solutions.
• Ensure successful prototypes and experimental solutions evolve into scalable, secure and supportable organisational capabilities where appropriate.
• Lead the responsible adoption and development of data- and AI enabled products and workflows.

Who you are

• An experienced technology leader who has steered and developed multidisciplinary Data & Tech capabilities, bringing together product management, engineering, data, platforms and AI enablement.
• You have a strong grounding in engineering for internal products, automations and platforms, with the technical judgement to assess solution design, engineering quality, delivery approaches and technical risk.
• You are able to build and lead a growing engineering capability: setting appropriate standards, recruiting and developing technical talent, and putting in place effective technical assurance and design-review practices.
• You are broadly fluent across product management, data, platforms and AI-enabled technologies, and can bring these disciplines together into coherent organisational products and capabilities. The role requires breadth, sound judgement and the ability to work effectively with domain specialists, rather than deep specialism in every area.
• You are a strong people and functional head, able to grow teams and evolve the operating model, practices and culture needed for a high-performing internal product, engineering and enablement function.
• You have experience helping organisations discover, prioritise and deliver technology-enabled improvements that meet genuine user needs and deliver meaningful organisational outcomes.
• You are comfortable partnering with diverse stakeholders to translate complex or ambiguous opportunities and technical challenges into clear priorities, decisions and outcomes.
• You are experienced in guiding blended capability models, making sound decisions about the use of internal specialists, external partners and vendors, and building effective interfaces with complementary technology and operational functions.

How to apply

Please submit your current CV and a cover letter detailing your suitability. We pride ourselves on reviewing every application personally. A cover letter is required to be considered.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave provision, with the option to buy/sell additional days
• Hybrid working arrangements; 60% in office / 40% at home
• Supportive environment for learning and development opportunities
• Enhanced family leave arrangements
• A free and confidential 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Life Assurance
• 2 days of paid volunteer days
• 5% defined contribution pension scheme with Smart Pension
• Cycle to Work scheme
• An excellent office location in Kings X, London

Not sure you meet 100% of our criteria? Don’t worry! If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply. We want to attract the broadest array of candidates, including those with diverse workplace experiences and backgrounds. Whether you’re new to the field, returning to work after a gap in employment, simply looking to transition, or taking the next step in your career path, we will be glad to have you on our radar. Please use your cover letter to tell us about your interests and what you hope to bring to this role.

If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please notify us and we will make every effort to accommodate you. Disclosing any requests are intended to provide ARIA with the best opportunity to support candidates and will have no negative impact on your recruitment process.

ARIA adopts a highly considered approach to ethical and social responsibility. You can read our policy here. Our research and development activity will abide by the 3Rs principle. You can read about those here.