Head of Data & AI

Head of Data & AI (Director)

London (hybrid) | Up to £130,000 + bonus + benefits

We’re working with a global data and technology consultancy on a senior hire. They work with more than 1,000 commercial and public sector clients, and they want a leader to grow their commercial data platforms practice.

You’ll own the data platform offering for commercial clients. That covers shaping bids, running POCs, building partner relationships and leading a large team from presales through delivery. You need deep technical credibility and you also need to be comfortable selling.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning the commercial data platform proposition across Snowflake, Databricks and modern cloud technologies
• Leading client discovery, assessments and fast POCs that prove value and lead to full builds
• Shaping target architectures, governance frameworks, operating models, roadmaps and commercials
• Advising clients on data governance, ownership and operating models so platforms get adopted and scale
• Building reusable accelerators for ingestion, data quality, modelling and orchestration
• Building senior relationships with Snowflake, Databricks and cloud partners to create joint propositions and co-sell pipeline
• Leading presales on strategic opportunities, from qualification and solution shaping to proposals and executive pitches
• Building and leading a team of engineers, architects and delivery leads, and owning hiring, capability and utilisation

What you’ll bring

• Senior leadership of data platform and engineering services in a consultancy, systems integrator or technology services business
• A track record of building and leading large teams of engineers, architects and delivery leads
• Deep hands-on understanding of modern cloud data platforms, ideally Snowflake and Databricks (AWS experience is a plus)
• Experience taking clients from discovery and POC through architecture, build, adoption and optimisation
• Strong knowledge of ingestion, orchestration, batch and streaming, data modelling, quality, governance, security and observability, including what’s needed for AI at scale
• Experience designing data governance and operating models
• Delivery of platforms for analytics, data science, customer intelligence and marketing activation
• Strong presales experience: shaping complex deals, writing proposals and presenting to executives
• A record of winning work through partner relationships, POCs and reusable accelerators
• The credibility to advise CDOs, CIOs and CTOs

What’s on offer

• Up to £130,000 base plus performance bonus
• Pension up to 5% matched
• Private health insurance, life insurance and a health and wellbeing plan
• 25 days holiday
• Working abroad policy
• Hybrid working: around three days a week on client site or in the London office

Interested, or know someone who’d be a great fit? Apply here or message me directly at jake@breakthroughtalent.co.uk for a confidential chat.