Director of Engineering & AI - 12 month FTC - £160k - £180k

Director of Engineering & AI | Consumer Technology | AI & Engineering Transformation

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We're partnering with an innovative consumer technology business to appoint a Director of Engineering & AI. This is a pivotal leadership role, responsible for shaping the engineering strategy behind a large-scale digital platform.

Reporting directly to the C-Suite, you'll work closely with the Director of Product to deliver an ambitious technology roadmap across web, mobile applications, and marketing technology, while helping drive the organisation's adoption of AI across engineering, operations, and customer experience.

If you're passionate about modern engineering leadership, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled development, and delivering technology that impacts millions of users, we'd love to hear from you.

The Opportunity

As Director of Engineering & Delivery, you'll lead the transformation of engineering practices, platform architecture, and software delivery across customer-facing and internal systems.

You'll be responsible for building high-performing engineering teams, improving delivery velocity, driving platform modernisation, and introducing AI-enabled tooling and intelligent automation to enhance productivity and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, inspire and grow high-performing engineering teams across platform and application development.
• Define the engineering strategy, architecture standards and software delivery best practices.
• Champion modern engineering practices including cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, observability and platform reliability.
• Improve engineering performance, delivery speed and operational resilience.
• Partner closely with Product, Commercial and Technology leaders to successfully deliver the product roadmap.

Platform & Technology Transformation

• Drive the modernisation of customer-facing and operational technology platforms.
• Introduce AI-powered engineering tools and automation to improve software delivery.
• Oversee secure, scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluate emerging technologies that enhance developer productivity and customer experience.
• Help shape the organisation's long-term AI and intelligent systems strategy.

Commercial & Customer Impact

• Deliver exceptional digital experiences across web, mobile and transactional platforms.
• Improve operational efficiency through automation and workflow optimisation.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to identify technology initiatives that support commercial growth and customer engagement.

What We're Looking For

Significant experience leading engineering teams within complex digital organisations.

A commercially-minded technology leader who can align engineering investment with business objectives.

Strong background in modern software engineering, cloud-native platforms and scalable architecture.

Proven experience leading engineering transformation programmes and large-scale platform delivery.

Experience with AI-enabled tooling, automation platforms or emerging AI technologies.

Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across Product, Commercial and Executive Leadership teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience within consumer technology, media, eCommerce or subscription-based businesses.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development or intelligent automation platforms.
• Experience scaling distributed engineering teams and modern platform organisations.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to play a key role in the future direction of a well-established consumer technology business investing heavily in digital transformation, AI and platform innovation. xwzovoh

You'll have genuine influence over engineering strategy, technology direction and AI adoption while working alongside an ambitious leadership team to build products used at significant scale.