Director, Enterprise AI & ML Architecture

Aimlroles; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Hybrid working

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Finastra is seeking a deeply technical Director of AI and Machine Learning to lead the engineering organisation’s AI capability, translating product-led AI strategy into scalable architecture and delivery across the software development lifecycle.

The role marries hands-on technical credibility with strategic leadership, guiding technology choices and building an AI engineering estate to support enterprise software.

Qualifications

• Broad software engineering and architecture experience across enterprise SDLC.
• Deep knowledge of AI and machine learning technologies and trade-offs.
• Proven leadership with cross-functional stakeholder influence in a changing organisation.

Responsibilities

• Own AI reference architecture, patterns and standards aligned with product priorities.
• Define models access, orchestration, data access, security and observability patterns.
• Guide cloud‑based MLOps, model deployment, monitoring and cost management.
• Lead a specialist AI/ML capability and grow the team with strategic hires.
• Communicate governance and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture

AI/ML knowledge

Enterprise SDLC

Cloud MLOps

Data governance

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Finastra is seeking a deeply technical Director of AI and Machine Learning to lead the engineering organisation’s AI capability, translating product-led AI strategy into scalable architecture and delivery across the software development lifecycle.

The role marries hands-on technical credibility with strategic leadership, guiding technology choices and building an AI engineering estate to support enterprise software.