VP Engineering - AI

Salary: £130,000 - 140,000 per year

Requirements:

• Software engineering leadership at scale, with experience leading engineering functions and driving a step-change in how teams build software.
• Real experience introducing AI-assisted engineering and automation into how software is engineered.
• Deep grounding in Continuous Delivery, DevOps and cloud.
• Experience with engineering productivity measurement such as DORA, cycle time or equivalent.
• Strong architecture background, including setting direction and running a Technical Design Authority or similar forum across a complex, integrated estate.
• Track record of establishing engineering standards, golden paths and reusable foundations that improve a whole function.
• Experience setting strategy and standards and landing them through other leaders and their teams, including re-platforming and culture change.
• Experience of engineering organisation design, operating models and developing leaders.
• Ability to operate at a strategic level, setting direction and raising the capability of the whole function.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the adoption of AI in engineering by setting the direction for AI-assisted development and embedding it in how teams design, build and test.
• Put in place the foundations that make AI-assisted engineering work at scale, including engineering standards, golden paths, repository structure, documentation-as-code and reusable scaffolding.
• Drive automation across the software lifecycle, from build and test to release, so delivery is faster, more consistent and less manual.
• Set the engineering practices that support faster, more reliable software flow, including Continuous Delivery, CI/CD, automated testing and release readiness, working with Infrastructure/DevOps and others.
• Set the software engineering strategy and multi-year technical roadmap, aligned to the digital and business strategy.
• Set the software engineering standards, tooling and technology-stack direction the function builds to.
• Set the software engineering architecture direction across Digital Transformation and hold cross-estate coherence.
• Act as the escalation and decision point for the most significant technical and design choices across the estate.
• Lead, develop and set direction for the Head of Development, the Cyber Development Lead and the Enterprise Architect.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Flow
• Support
• LESS

More:

We are recruiting for a VP Engineering to lead the adoption of AI in Engineering. This is a senior leadership role created to step change how our software is engineered. We set the software engineering and architecture direction for Digital Transformation, establish the standards, tooling and modern practices the function builds to, and lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering and automation to raise productivity and shorten time to release. Please apply as directed.

last updated 37 week of 2026