Head of Data, Analytics & AI Platform

McLaren Racing; Old Woking; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured career development program

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Enhanced pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after 2 years

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

McLaren Automotive seeks a senior platform and data/AI leader to define multi-year roadmaps, secure executive sponsorship, and translate plans into quarterly objectives and funding. You will oversee a secure, self-service analytics platform and govern AI usage across engineering, design, and customer-facing products.

You will drive data governance, MLOps, and cost-aware delivery while mentoring teams and partnering with product, security, and cloud groups to deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Understanding engineering, design, manufacturing, quality and commercial domains and how data/AI create advantage.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year roadmap for platform, governance and funding.
• Lead secure, self-service analytics platform aligned to enterprise systems.

Skills

Platform strategy

Multi-model AI

Data engineering leadership

Data governance

AI governance

Budget management

Team building

Executive collaboration

Job description

McLaren Automotive seeks a senior platform and data/AI leader to define multi-year roadmaps, secure executive sponsorship, and translate plans into quarterly objectives and funding. You will oversee a secure, self-service analytics platform and govern AI usage across engineering, design, and customer-facing products.

You will drive data governance, MLOps, and cost-aware delivery while mentoring teams and partnering with product, security, and cloud groups to deliver measurable business impact.