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We enable clients to anticipate tomorrow’s trends and connect more directly with their consumers across digital and physical touchpoints. \nWe deliver innovation with a purpose. With expertise across experience design, technology and marketing, our passion is in addressing transformational business challenges for our clients. Challenges where we re-imagine the customer journey and build new connected experiences. Challenges where we make data work in this new era and help our clients transform the way they operate and optimise business-critical digital platforms for multichannel commerce and marketing. \nOperating across fivecontinents with over 6,000 innovators in twenty-twocountries, we help organisations reimagine the way they connect with their customers, leverage data,and transform their business operations. \nWe are proud of: \nThe work we do and innovation we drive \nOur Values of share, care and dare \nA workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy \nOur borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration \nThe Role: \nYou will be a key decision maker in Valtech’sUK AI transformation, and a member of the UK Technology, Data and AI Leadership Team that leads on all things AI. \nYou will be accountable for AI policy across product and operations within our Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), defininghow AI is responsibly adopted and turningthat policy into everyday practice for our teams and clients.You will also be Valtech’skey UK relationship lead for our Anthropic partnership. \nAlongside this, you will lead large-scale, global transformation for our most strategic clients and a community of talented people passionate about building best-in-class digital solutions. Embedded within our largest clients, you will work with C-level stakeholderswhilst staying closeto the teams who make it happen. \nOur perfect candidate really cares about helping teams make things better for users, andisas credible as a coach and mentoras they are as a technologist. Curiosity, critical thought, and an ability to get under the skin of our clients’ businesses will make this role seriously satisfying. \nStrategic Client Leadership \nBuild relationships with senior technology stakeholders within our clients’ businesses. \nServe as the transformation lead for major enterprise clients, shaping and delivering vision, technology strategy, implementation, and operating model changes. \nGrow accounts by identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities that are rooted in client business requirements and have robust ROI. \nAlignenterprise functions and digital workstreamssoinitiatives ladder up into acohesive strategy. \nBe accountable for the successful delivery of the work. \nRepresent Valtech with authority and confidence, guiding clients through their initiatives as their trusted advisor. \nBe thetechnical escalation point for assigned clients, identifying and resolvingissues as soon as they arise. \nAI product delivery operations strategy: recommend AI tooling and usage patterns that deliver measurable return on investment for our clients. \nAI product strategy: recommend the use of AI within clients’ products where appropriate, to deliver value for their customers and end users. \nDesign human/AI collaboration models with clients and teams, defining where people stay in the loop (reviewing and approving AI outputs) and over the loop (setting guardrails and supervising autonomous AI workflows). \nOperating model reviews and design for AI adoption: centralised reuse of AI pipelinesand accelerators (skills, plug-ins, and hooks)across client engagements, and collaboration with delivery, strategy, and designteamsto establish centralised requirements and shared context for AI workflows. \nTechnical Leadership \nProvide first-class technical leadership in the client environment, enabling and coaching teams to navigate complexity anddeliver transformational programmes of work. \nEnable AI adoption to drive efficiency and innovation for clients, acting as an agent of change and empowering delivery teams to use AI effectively day to day. \nAdvisesenior client stakeholders on technology adoption to achieve outcomes. \nIdentify, mentor, and develop future technical leaders within the assigned client delivery teams. \nSupport and influence across delivery layers, from digital platforms and product teams to governance and business capabilities. \nStrengthen technical presence and involvement in the global Valtech community on transformationand modern software delivery. \nMake transformation a reality by balancing strategic direction with continuous, on-the-ground progress. \nBring industryknowledge into engagements, challenge internal assumptions and equip teams to solve big problems effectively. \nDrive trainingand evangelism around AI products and product selection, andbuild a culture of sharing: surfacing what works and what doesn’t, forming clans and communities of practice, and operationalising the rollout of new AI tooling across teams. \nExposure of internal systems and tooling to AI pipelines via MCP, CLIs, and equivalent integration patterns, with appropriate context-management strategies. \nOwn Valtech’scentralised library of AI accelerators (skills, plug-ins, hooks, and workflow templates), setting standards for how they are built, versioned, and governed, and driving their reuse across teams and client engagements. \nGeneratethought leadership on technology trendsand align it withthe business needs of Valtech and ourclients. \nAlign technical work with Valtech and client technology, security, and certification standards, and uphold technical standards and processes to deliverbest-in-class solutions. \nEnsure governance and decision-making processes are effective, including AI policy applied consistently across teams and client engagements. \nPeople \nHelp teams adopt good practices and techniques to deliver quality software at pace. \nAdvocate for delivery methods (especially agile) and their impact on technology planning/strategy. \nEnsure teams consider risks, impacts, and consequences of decisions. \nAssist recruitment in acquiring talent aligned to client project needs andValtech’sCulture and People Growth Framework. \nValidate hiring processes and ensure team composition meets delivery requirements. \nLine manage and develop people through our Professional Development Processes and our People Growth Framework. \nFoster psychological safety and continuous improvement, turning problems into opportunities to gain experienceand grow. \nSupport teams through the change brought by AI adoption, helping individuals navigate evolving ways of working. \nSet personal development plans that reflect AI capability growth alongside core technical and consulting skills. \nLeverage certifications and partner programmes, feeding these into individual training plans and demonstrating the value back to clients and partners. \nPartners \nAct as Valtech’skey UK point of contact for our Anthropic partnership, shaping joint enablement, go-to-market, and delivery plans. \nBuild deep relationships with our technical partners and our clients’ technical partners, staying abreast of theirroadmapsto inform strategic decisions. \nSupport and sponsor technical events. \nBe an advocate and thought leader for the technologies we implement withour partners. \nGrowth \nSupport sales, marketing, and account management teams to explore growth opportunities within clients. \nContribute to bids, proposalsand pitches, ensuring technical alignment and excellence. \nShare insights and learning from client work to influence our local and global approaches to transformation. \nShape go-to-market strategies for our AI propositions, including positioning, packaging, return-on-investment narratives, and target client segments. \nDevelop core pitch materials and reusable collateral around our AI approaches, methodologies, and case studies. \nEssential Expertise\nA proven recordofleading large-scale,transformationprojects for globally recognised brand names \nExperience navigating large, complex organisationsto connect silos and align multiple workstreams. \nProvenconsulting skills and the ability to influence C-level stakeholders with both credibility and humility. \nTechnical fluency across platforms, architecture, cloud, and modern delivery practices. \nEnthusiasticabout technology, developing teams, and delivering successful outcomes. \nProven recordbuilding and leading communities of technologists \nAdaptable to change and fostering cultural shifts within the organisation. \nUse of AI in enterprise software development, products and technology. \nExperience leading AI adoption and policy in a consultancy or agency environment, balancing client delivery with internal capability building. \nTechnology domains we are particularly interested in talking to you about: \nTechnical leadership in a Product environment \nAI pipelines across the software development lifecycle, spanning the plan, implement, test, and verify stages. \nSpec-driven development practices. \nHuman/AI collaboration design, including human-in-the-loop and human-over-the-loop patterns. \nTooling experience with the Anthropic Claude Code suite, including agents, sub-agents, skills, plug-ins, hooks, and agent-team workflows. \nAI governance: risk management for AI systems, PII exposure controls for systems feeding AI pipelines, EU AI Act 2024 compliance and DPIAs for client-driven systems, and alignment of AI processes with information-security standards such as ISO 27001 and 42001. \nAI product engineering: designing and building AI-native products for clients. \nMCP architectures and agentic architectures for tool use and orchestration. \nModel selection and fine-tuning strategies aligned to use case, cost, and performance. \nPrompt management, context management, and chunking strategies for retrieval and long-context workloads. \nConversational interfaces, natural 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