Head of Data & AI – FinTech

Head of Data & AI — FinTech

Orbis are partnering with a high-growth FinTech firm with over 500 employees globally. The firm have been on an incredible growth journey, both organically and through acquisitions, and this is showing no signs of slowing down.

As they continue their incredible growth journey with a series of key business acquisitions, they are now looking for an experienced Head of Data & AI who can deliver a consolidated data strategy and a roadmap for the use of AI and modern data technology.

Your responsibilities in this role will be:

• Define and own the end-to-end Data & AI strategy across multiple business units and platforms
• Consolidating and modernising multi-cloud data stacks and setting target data architecture for current and newly merged businesses
• Leading a lean, high-performing Data function (staying ~20% hands-on), partnering closely with C- Suite
• Owning the AI/ML roadmap, including for insights, automation and driving measurable business outcomes

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Strong proven experience running data teams and managing data technology strategy for a high-growth Financial Services or FinTech firm.
• A Data Engineering background (or similar) with excellent hands-on experience and understanding of Data Warehouse (e.g. BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks), orchestration, data modelling and cloud technology (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Strong AI literacy, including leveraging AI to pull insights from structured and unstructured data
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate with and present to C-Suite.

If you feel your experience is a match with the above, please apply with an up to date copy of your CV in the first instance