AI Technical Lead: Architecture & Governance

London Insurance Life; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career development opportunities

Exposure to senior stakeholders

Job summary

Howden is seeking an AI Technical Lead to be the technical authority within the Group AI Function. You will own architecture governance, lead AI tool/vendor assessments, and provide technical oversight across AI initiatives with internal teams and external partners.

This role sits at the centre of a programme touching every part of the Group, offering direct access to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to shape Howden’s AI capability and governance standards from day one.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with large language models, retrieval systems, and agent frameworks.
• Exposure to insurance or another regulated industry.
• Cloud-native AI architecture experience.
• Experience with enterprise AI platform governance.
• Track record writing architecture or security design documentation.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation and quality assurance approaches.
• Ability to assess AI vendors and tooling rigorously and independently.
• Experience overseeing third-party AI delivery.
• Strong communication - equally comfortable with engineers and senior leaders.
• Experience in an architecture review or governance context.

Responsibilities

• Architecture governance for AI tools and platforms across the Group.
• Lead architecture review submissions and design documentation.
• Evaluate inbound AI vendors and tools with a repeatable assessment framework.
• Provide technical oversight across AI initiatives with internal teams and partners.
• Set and maintain technical standards for agent development, retrieval, and evaluation.

Skills

LLM experience

Insurance domain

Cloud-native AI

AI governance

Vendor assessment

Security design

Architecture governance

Technical communication

Delivery oversight

Small team work

Job description

Howden is seeking an AI Technical Lead to be the technical authority within the Group AI Function. You will own architecture governance, lead AI tool/vendor assessments, and provide technical oversight across AI initiatives with internal teams and external partners.

This role sits at the centre of a programme touching every part of the Group, offering direct access to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to shape Howden’s AI capability and governance standards from day one.