AI Delivery Lead: Scale & Governance

Aviva; West of England; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

National Salary from £75,000 + bonus +

Job summary

Aviva's Chief AI Office leads enterprise-wide AI delivery standards, shaping how AI moves from discovery to production with governance and measurable value. This role defines and evangelises the end-to-end AI delivery method, partnering with delivery squads to reduce friction and accelerate impact at scale.

You’ll work with AI, engineering, data and product teams to embed responsible AI, privacy and risk considerations while continuously improving patterns, tools and patterns across the

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and deploying AI, machine-learning or generative AI solutions in production in highly regulated industries like financial services.
• Strong knowledge of modern AI architectures, retrieval, agents, evaluation and human-in-the-loop design.
• Experience with MLOps or LLMOps, continuous integration and delivery, testing, observability and production operations.
• Evidence of defining agile delivery methods, standards, reusable patterns or developer enablement across more than one team.
• The ability to coach technical teams and influence senior engineering, architecture, product and risk stakeholders.
• Experience delivering technology in financial services or another regulated environment would be useful.

Responsibilities

• Defining and maintaining Aviva’s end-to-end AI delivery method, from discovery and experimentation to release, monitoring and improvement
• Making sure that our AI end-to-end delivery method is the fastest in the industry whilst also being responsible
• Coaching AI, engineering, data and product teams to adopt the Aviva end-to-end AI delivery method and deliver more rapidly as a result
• Working with teams to identify common dependencies and Bottlenecks and systematically removing them
• embedding responsible AI, privacy, cyber, model risk and service requirements into normal engineering delivery
• Building a delivery community that shares evidence, learns from live use cases and improves the method over time.
• Measured on: speed of AI deployment (from idea to production), enterprise AI portfolio compliance level with risk standards, as well as contribution to team goals such as enterprise AI adoption

Job description

Aviva's Chief AI Office leads enterprise-wide AI delivery standards, shaping how AI moves from discovery to production with governance and measurable value. This role defines and evangelises the end-to-end AI delivery method, partnering with delivery squads to reduce friction and accelerate impact at scale.

You’ll work with AI, engineering, data and product teams to embed responsible AI, privacy and risk considerations while continuously improving patterns, tools and patterns across the