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Head of AI & Data Science

Bristol, South West England🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-10 → 2026-08-07

Core

Lead the strategic direction and technical architecture for an agentic AI platform serving financial institutions, integrating multi-agent workflows with traditional data science to enable autonomous financial decisioning.

Role type

Head of AI & Data Science (Strategic IC + Team Lead)

Builds

Intelligent Financial Decisioning and Data Platform for large financial institutions

Domain

Fintech / Regulated Financial Services / Agentic AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Strategic partnership with C-suite, Architectural leadership for multi-agent systems, Traditional ML expertise (classification, regression), RAG and vector embeddings, Python, Scikit-learn, Open Banking domain knowledge

Preferred skills

Fintech regulatory context, Start-up ethos, High-velocity delivery culture

Technologies

LLMs, Agentic frameworks, Vector DBs, Python, Scikit-learn

Responsibilities

Define roadmap for Intelligent Platform, Influence technical direction for 50-person engineering org, Lead team of 5 Data Scientists & ML Engineers, Engage with senior AI leaders at customers, Architect multi-agent workflows and orchestration

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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