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In this senior role, you’ll lead the development of secure, resilient and cost-effective platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver services faster through automation, self-service capabilities and responsible AI adoption.\nA role you will love\nAs the Head of Platform and AI Engineering you will define and execute the global Platform and AI Engineering strategy, architecture and multi-year roadmap.\nWorking with senior leaders across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data, Risk and Service Operations to balance innovation, cost, resilience and regulatory requirements.\nOther key responsibilities:\nLead engineering across hybrid cloud, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, observability and internal developer platforms.\nEstablish and operate enterprise AI platform services, including model access, routing, governance, metering, logging and audit.\nContribute to governance and adoption of AI coding assistants and agentic automation across the software development lifecycle.\nDevelop secure, reusable engineering standards, reference architectures, golden paths and policy-as-code controls.\nRun platform services as products, supported by clear roadmaps, service levels, prioritised backlogs and measurable outcomes.\nLead globally distributed Platform engineering teams, building capability through coaching, recruitment and reskilling.\nManage platform and AI budgets, strategic suppliers, cloud and GPU consumption, influence licensing and FinOps activities.\nWhat will you bring to the role?\nYou will hold extensive leadership experience in platform, cloud, DevOps or AI engineering within a large, regulated and multi-region organisation.\nArchitect-level knowledge of Azure (preferred) or AWS, Kubernetes, private cloud, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, observability and SRE.\nOther key skills required for the role include:\nStrong knowledge of AI platform engineering, including LLM gateways, model serving, orchestration, guardrails and agent frameworks.\nExperience establishing DevSecOps practices and securing the software supply chain.\nA proven ability to translate complex technical strategy into clear business outcomes, investment cases and executive decisions.\nStrong commercial, financial and vendor-management capability.\nA track record of building high-performing global teams and leading significant technology transformation.\nExcellent communication and influencing skills, including experience working with C-level stakeholders.\nThis is an opportunity to set the direction for platform engineering and responsible AI adoption across a global organisation, improving engineering productivity, reliability, security and speed to market.\nRewards designed for you\nFlexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle\nHealth and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family\nInvest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you’ll receive a company contribution as well.\nExtra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future\nAnd more. 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