Head of AI Technology Practice – Transformation

Overview

• Establish and lead the enterprise AI Technology Practice and roadmap
• Define AI strategy aligned to business and technology priorities
• Build reusable AI capabilities, frameworks, governance and standards
• Develop an AI operating model and engagement approach across technology teams
• Act as a senior advisor to CIO, CTO and Engineering leadership
• Drive AI-assisted software engineering adoption across development teams
• Modernise SDLC processes using AI-enabled tooling and automation
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and accelerate delivery
• Identify and prioritise high-value internal AI use cases
• Establish AI governance, security and compliance standards

• Significant years of leadership experience in software engineering, enterprise technology or digital transformation
• Proven experience leading engineering modernisation or platform transformation initiatives
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including cloud platforms, Dev Ops, CI/CD, platform engineering and API-first architecture
• Practical understanding of AI and GenAI technologies and their enterprise application
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional transformation
• Strong commercial and operational mindset
• Experience establishing governance, standards and scalable operating models

• Hard Skills

• AI strategy
• AI capabilities
• AI operating model
• SDLC processes
• AI-enabled tooling
• automation
• cloud platforms
• Dev Ops
• CI/CD
• API-first architecture

• Soft Skills

• leadership
• influencing
• cross-functional collaboration
• commercial mindset
• operational mindset