Head of Data & AI — Strategy to Production Leader

Morson Edge; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge is seeking a hands-on, commercially minded Head of Data & AI to lead the data and AI strategy and build a high-performing capability. You will drive production-ready AI across products, services and operations, balancing innovation with practical delivery to turn technology into customer value.

You will collaborate with the executive team and senior leaders to align AI roadmaps, build robust data platforms, and scale solutions with strong governance and MLOps practices.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery of production-grade AI and ML solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with generative AI, LLMs, RAG, agents.
• Deep understanding of data engineering, data platforms and MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the Data & AI strategy, roadmap and technical direction across the organisation.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI across products, services and internal operations to improve customer value, automation and decision‑making.
• Explore and apply emerging technologies including generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, predictive analytics, graph intelligence, recommendation systems and semantic search.
• Turn ideas into prototypes and MVPs, validate them with users and stakeholders, and scale successful solutions into production.
• Own the data platform strategy, ensuring well‑governed data underpins AI and analytics initiatives.
• Establish robust MLOps and engineering practices covering deployment, monitoring, experimentation and governance.
• Champion practical AI adoption across Product and Engineering to improve ways of working.
• Build, lead and develop a high‑performing Data & AI team.
• Ensure AI innovation is secure, responsible, transparent and appropriate.
• Work with senior leadership to connect technology investment to customer outcomes, commercial priorities and business strategy.

Skills

AI/ML Solutions

Generative AI

LLMs & RAG

MLOps

Data Platforms

Cloud (Azure)

Tools

Azure Cloud

Job description

Morson Edge is seeking a hands-on, commercially minded Head of Data & AI to lead the data and AI strategy and build a high-performing capability. You will drive production-ready AI across products, services and operations, balancing innovation with practical delivery to turn technology into customer value.

You will collaborate with the executive team and senior leaders to align AI roadmaps, build robust data platforms, and scale solutions with strong governance and MLOps practices.