About the Job You Are Considering
We are seeking a Lead Data & AI Engineering Manager to lead cross‑functional engineering teams in the design, build, and delivery of data‑intensive platforms and AI‑powered solutions supporting Balance Sheet Management (BSM).
You will own end‑to‑end delivery across the data and AI lifecycle, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, well‑governed, and aligned to strategic business outcomes within a highly regulated banking environment.
This role requires strong technical leadership, close collaboration with business and product stakeholders, and hands‑on experience delivering advanced data and AI solutions at scale.
Hybrid Working
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Your Role
* Lead cross‑functional engineering teams to design, build, and deliver data‑intensive platforms and AI‑powered solutions aligned with strategic business priorities.
* Own end‑to‑end delivery across the data and AI lifecycle for Balance Sheet Management (BSM), from data ingestion and modelling to ML model development, deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
* Act as the AIPX Delivery Manager, leading the design and delivery of robust data pipelines and high‑quality derived data products aligned with AIPX architecture and performance standards.
* Provide strong technical leadership across data architecture, cloud engineering, and AI/ML capabilities to ensure scalable, secure, and well‑governed solutions.
* Collaborate closely with product owners, data teams, and business stakeholders to prioritise backlogs, manage risks and dependencies, and translate requirements into actionable technical plans.
* Establish and enforce engineering best practices, including coding standards, DevOps and MLOps pipelines, testing frameworks, and technical documentation.
* Drive innovation by evaluating emerging data and AI technologies, leading proofs of concept, and embedding Responsible AI principles across delivery.
* Work across multiple technology teams within the bank, contributing to large‑scale application and platform development.
Your Skills
Core Technical Skills
* Strong knowledge of AI techniques and approaches, with hands‑on experience applying AI in previous roles.
* Strong understanding of Generative AI models and LLMs, with the ability to select the right model for specific business use cases.
* Experience using AI tools and platforms to accelerate idea‑to‑value delivery.
* Strong technical background across:
* Data architecture and data engineering
* Cloud engineering
* AI / Machine Learning platforms
* Proven experience delivering solutions in a highly regulated organisation.
* Strong knowledge of large‑scale application development and working across multiple technology teams in a banking environment.
Additional Skills
* Experience leading fast‑paced delivery teams with close alignment to business functions.
* Knowledge of best‑practice delivery and production support models.
* Experience establishing modern engineering practices across development teams.
* Knowledge of agentic workflow orchestration (advantageous).
* Knowledge of specification‑driven development and modern AI‑enabled engineering practices to support an automated SDLC (advantageous).
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Key Performance Indicators
* Successful end‑to‑end delivery of data and AI solutions aligned with Balance Sheet Management objectives.
* Stable, scalable, and secure data pipelines and AI models in production.
* Adoption of engineering best practices across teams, including DevOps, MLOps, testing, and documentation.
* Effective prioritisation and backlog management aligned with business needs.
* Demonstrated innovation through proof‑of‑concept delivery and adoption of emerging AI technologies.
* Full compliance with enterprise governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.
We are a Disability Confident Employer:
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
* Declare they have a disability, and
* Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process.
Make It Real (what does it mean for you):
* You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
* To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
* You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
* You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
Why you should consider Capgemini:
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini:
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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