About the role

Our Technical Directors play a vital role in shaping the overall technical strategy for their business unit alongside assembling and managing the highly skilled team to deliver innovative solutions for our customers.

In this case, we are looking for some to lead our Government & Public Services unit.

Please note that due to the nature of our current project requirements, applicants must either hold, or be eligible for, SC clearance.

Faculty will cover in full any costs associated with this process.

What you’ll be doing
 

Technical Delivery 

• Providing oversight of highly complex technical work, supporting and steering delivery teams when needed
• Identifying products, tools and processes to improve/enhance our ability to deliver quality
• Advising on matters of solution architecture, advanced modelling and engineering by bringing your own extensive technical background of developing both infrastructure and modelling software in resource-constrained settings

Leadership 

• Building a team focused on best-in-class technical excellence and delivery by setting standards, defining ways of working and championing best practice 
• Overseeing the professional development and learning for technologists in the team 
• Co-owning the overall strategy for the Government & Public Services business unit incl. designing team structure and managing budgets, 
   

Business Development 

• Identifying new technical markets to pursue/ technologies to build and equally, potential customer and partners opportunities within those markets
• Working with Business Directors, and the commercial team to land and expand market opportunities
  Delivering as the technical authority in meetings with senior client stakeholders

Who we’re looking for

To be successful in this role, you’ll have the ability to balance commercial, technical and strategic needs across multiple large-scale projects at a time, specifically in the Government & Public Services space.

We’ll need someone who is highly motivated to work within this environment and has a passion for delivering solutions to some of the world’s most interesting problems through the delivery of safe, impactful and human-led AI.

In particular you’ll:

• Be an established technology leader with a track record of leading both the strategy and the delivery of projects in the AI / Machine Learning space
• Have the ability to communicate complex, technical information to internal and external stakeholders
  Ideally have a mixture of experience working in both Government and private sector environments such as Education, Health Services and National Security
• Come from a hands-on background with real-world deployment experience of machine learning or AI applications in production and architecting hardware/software systems
• Show strong commercial aptitude, with the ability to maximise commercial, technical and strategic needs during end-to-end scoping of a project.
• Have worked with, or in, full-stack technology teams and understand system architecture, design and good engineering fundamentals.

Should you join us, you will work with a team of exceptional technical and commercial individuals who are continually learning from, and challenging, one other. Your knowledge, commitment and ideas will play a vital part in Faculty continuing to set the standard for the innovative, responsible deployment of AI across every facet of our lives.