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Our people power our performance - we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.\nWhether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.\nAbout the business unit\nMott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation, enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice, and technology to all areas of our business, specifically designed for our global reach.\nOverview of the role\nWe are looking for anAI Implementation Delivery Lead to join our Digital Value Implementation team in our Central Digital function.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced engineer or project manager who combines disciplined delivery management, strong technical understanding and practical experience of delivery new engineering capabilities. You will lead multidisciplinary team that creates automations, AI agents, and wider AI-enabled tools for our Major Projects.\nYou will lead and direct implementation of high-value automations, AI solutions, and digital innovations for our prioritised support to Major Projects. These will run from concept and business case through design, build and assurance, to deployment across multiple projects. You will ensure readiness for scaling, adoption planning, and support. A central part of the role is identifying and prioritising the highest value potential opportunities, turning these in to pilots to realise value on select projects and evolve them into robust, repeatable, and scale-ready tools that deliver measurable value.\nYou will be expected to move between governance forums, delivery plans and stakeholder decisions and practical work such as prototyping agents, shaping workflows, connecting data and tools, reviewing technical designs, testing behaviour, and resolving delivery blockers.\nKey responsibilities and duties include:\nEnd-to-end delivery leadership\nShape the opportunity. Work with business users and domain specialists to define the problem, intended outcomes, scope, success measures, constraints, and route to value.\nLead from concept to scale. Own complex digital and innovation projects and programmes through discovery, business case, design, build, test, deployment, adoption, benefits realisation, and readiness for transition into sustainable operations.\nPlan and control delivery. Establish integrated delivery plans, milestones, budgets, resource profiles, dependencies, and critical paths; manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and change control. Understand when to prioritise, escalate and have a strong focus on risks as well as unblocking challenges.\nCoordinate multidisciplinary teams. Bring together project technical delivery, data science, software development, engineering, design, domain, and operational expertise, ensuring that responsibilities and interfaces are understood.\nAssure adoption and service readiness. Plan testing, user acceptance, training, communications, deployment, operational support, monitoring, and handover so that solutions are adopted, and sustained on the projects to meet their objectives.\nAI agents and technical delivery\nDeliver applied AI and automation. Lead initiatives involving team members across advanced analytics, machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent automation, translating technical possibilities into practical, safe, and valuable solutions.\nBuild agents. Guide the team through prototyping, configuration, coding, integration, testing and debugging of Copilot AI agents. Undertake assurance and governance activities to ensure the solutions meet the project needs and our development principles and requirements.\nSelect the right implementation path. Develop your understanding of our existing toolkit and the strengths, limitations, and trade-offs of different delivery options. Weigh and decide an approach based on speed, control, integration complexity, security, scale, maintainability, cost, and supportability.\nDesign for responsible use. Ensure embedding of data protection, information security, responsible AI, human oversight, traceability, evaluation, and proportionate controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nScaling, governance, and commercial value\nEnable reuse. Consider and navigate contractual, commercial, and intellectual-property considerations with the relevant specialists so that solutions, components, and learning can be reused across projects.\nReady pilots for scale. Move prototypes beyond proof of concept by establishing repeatable delivery patterns aligned to our scaling mechanisms, coordinate early-stage product management duties, ready the products for scale by our enterprise teams; this includes identifying reusable components, documentation and deployment playbooks.\nStakeholder and people leadership\nTranslate between audiences. Explain complex technical choices in clear business and non-technical language; and convert user and business needs into actionable technical and delivery requirements.\nLead and develop people. Line manage and mentor the AI Implementation Delivery team members, setting clear objectives, giving constructive feedback, supporting career development, and building delivery capability. Work similarly with wider resource groups and internal networks.\nCreate an effective team culture. Coach team members, remove blockers and foster ownership, inclusion, learning, quality, and pragmatic decision-making.\nCandidate specification\nEssential:\nProven experience leading digital or innovation projects and programmes, including successful transition from concept or pilot to adoption and readiness for scaling.\nStrong hands-on project experience delivering technical design or project management.\nExperience developing and implementing digital solutions centred on or enabled by automation and Copilot AI agents, together with practical experience personally building, configuring, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting AI agents.\nWorking knowledge of common platforms for automation and AI Agent delivery, with the judgement to select and combine them appropriately.\nTechnical fluency across core automation, Co-pilot AI, Agent, data and software delivery concepts, including and implementation and adoption challenges.\nUnderstanding of applied AI and automation capabilities and the controls needed to use them responsibly.\nEvidence of turning prototypes into robust and repeatable solutions for use by project teams.\nWorking knowledge of addressing related challenges around data, intellectual-property, responsible-AI, contractual and commercial considerations, and ability to work with in partnership with relevant specialists.\nExperience coordinating multidisciplinary teams that include technical, analytical, engineering, domain, and business contributors.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical subjects plainly, facilitate decisions and constructively challenge assumptions.\nLine-management and mentoring experience, with a record of developing delivery professionals and building high-performing teams.\nA practical, collaborative, and outcomes-focused approach, with the willingness to roll up your sleeves and work directly on delivery problems.\nWillingness to challenge of best practices, ways of working and enablement; comfortable challenging business processes and supporting collaborative enablement.\nRisk focused: proactive, focus on risks for complex initiatives that have dependencies or high uncertainty.\nDesirable:\nExperience developing business cases, governance models, delivery structures, cost and resource models, and deployment or operating blueprints.\nExperience with Microsoft’s AI and cloud ecosystem, for example Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure AI capabilities, Azure, SharePoint, DevOps, or GitHub.\nExperience with agent frameworks, and relevant software development languages.\nKnowledge of solution architecture and experience working with enterprise teams to implement secure, resilient, and supportable standards.\nKnowledge of Architectural, Engineering and Construction tool ecosystems, such as Autodesk Platform Services, Bentley iTwin or Esri.\nExperience in engineering, infrastructure, the built environment, or another asset-intensive sector.\nDemonstrable experience leading teams that build automations or AI agents, together with practical experience personally building, configuring, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting them.\nEvidence of evolving solutions to supportable and scalable products or services.\nA recognised project, programme, product or agile delivery qualification, or equivalent practical experience.\nWe are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.\nUK Immigration\nMott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.\nAgile working\nAt Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. 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