Director, AI & Data Strategy, Healthcare, Tech Consulting

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering data, analytics, and AI-focused transformation projects within the healthcare sector, particularly the NHS, with a specific focus on enterprise AI strategy.
• Strong understanding of UK healthcare systems, policies, and operational challenges, particularly NHS, with the ability to translate these into AI, data, and analytics-enabled solutions.
• Experience with large-scale operational, clinical, and financial healthcare datasets, including SUS, SLAM, HES, and ESR.
• Experience delivering engagements across data management, with a focus on data integration, data quality, and governance.
• Good understanding of at least one modern data platform such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or Databricks, and how it is applied in healthcare analytics and AI.
• Good understanding of leading frontier AI models and their application in the healthcare sector.
• Experience in IT strategy and transformation engagements, including long-range planning, roadmaps, operating models, governance, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience leading and delivering complex analytics engagements in areas such as financial improvement, operational improvement, intelligent insights, demand and capacity, and system modelling.
• Knowledge of AI governance frameworks, model risk management, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience acting as Engagement Lead, overseeing commercials, risk, delivery, and client relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic relationships with board-level and senior executives across providers, ICSs, and regional and national health organisations.
• Act as a trusted adviser on how to use AI and data to drive productivity, financial improvement, operational excellence, digital transformation, and large-scale service redesign using AI-ready data and frontier AI models.
• Oversee multiple complex technology programmes using AI and data, ensuring delivery excellence, commercial performance, risk management, and high-impact outcomes.
• Drive market strategy, proposition development, and thought leadership for AI and data with a deep focus on its impact on the health sector.
• Lead go-to-market initiatives across AI and data to drive productivity improvement, cost optimisation, digital enablement, and system transformation.
• Act as a visible ambassador for our values and quality standards within the health sector.
• Own and grow a significant revenue portfolio, with accountability for pipeline generation, conversion, and multi-year client relationships.
• Lead development of major proposals and bids, including acting as Bid Lead for high-value pursuits.
• Lead, inspire, develop, and mentor high-performing teams across our UK Health and AI and Data communities.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and wellbeing across project teams.

Technologies:

• AI
• Databricks
• Fabric
• Support
• Snowflake
• Network

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We are EY, a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams helping clients shape the future with confidence and build a better working world. Our Technology Consulting team in the UK and Ireland is expanding within our Healthcare Practice, where we are driving AI and data-led transformation across public and private health clients. This Director role is based in London, and offers the chance to lead high-impact work across the NHS, private healthcare, and beyond. We offer a competitive remuneration package, flexible working, career development, and access to FlexEY benefits covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, discounts, offers, and promotions. We also provide continuous learning, transformative leadership support, and a diverse and inclusive culture where you can make a meaningful impact.

last updated 34 week of 2026