Head of Integration, Data & GenAI Engineering

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong leadership experience in senior engineering roles, with a track record of leading technical teams across multiple specialist disciplines.
• Broad technical credibility across software engineering, integration architecture, event-driven systems, data engineering and modern platform architecture.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for APIs, backend services, event-driven integration, data platforms and AI-enabled products and services within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of modern data engineering practices, including data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data modelling, data governance, security, privacy and access management.
• Experience working with data platforms and technologies such as Snowflake, SQL-based data environments and a range of operational data sources.
• Good understanding of Generative AI and LLM-related engineering patterns, with the ability to lead teams in applying these capabilities pragmatically, securely and responsibly in an enterprise setting.
• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, with the ability to translate business goals into clear engineering roadmaps and delivery priorities.
• A strong delivery mindset, with experience balancing long-term platform improvement with short-term business outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with senior leadership, technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, and to translate complex technical concepts into clear business direction.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching senior leaders, developing talent, managing performance and building engaged, high-performing teams.
• A collaborative, pragmatic and outcome-focused approach, with the confidence to challenge, influence and lead through change in a regulated environment with a strong focus on customer outcomes.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment, ideally within financial services, with a clear understanding of risk, control and customer outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• We lead and develop AJ Bells engineering capability across enterprise integration, data engineering and GenAI, with overall responsibility for three direct reports and their teams.
• We set the strategic direction for integration, data and GenAI engineering in line with our technology strategy, business priorities and regulatory obligations.
• We provide strong leadership to senior managers and technical leads, creating clarity of purpose, clear accountability and a collaborative, high-performing culture, while supporting recruitment, succession planning, capability development and retention across the teams.
• We lead the development of event-driven and data streaming solutions, with a strong focus on integration architecture, API and messaging patterns, reusable engineering standards and modern delivery practices.
• We oversee the development and operation of our data engineering capabilities, including data ingestion, transformation, provisioning, governance, security, privacy and access to trusted data.
• We drive the design and adoption of GenAI engineering capabilities, including development of a core platform and integration of GenAI solutions into products, services and internal processes where they create clear business value, with appropriate guardrails around security, risk and responsible use.
• We ensure engineering solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and supportable, with appropriate governance, standards, observability and controls built in from the outset.
• We work closely with product-aligned engineering teams, infrastructure, information security, architecture and business stakeholders to deliver joined-up solutions, support data-driven decision-making and create long-term value.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Backend
• ETL
• Support
• LLM
• SQL
• Security
• Snowflake

More:

Were looking for a Head of Integration, Data & GenAI Engineering to lead a critical engineering capability within Technology Services at AJ Bell. This is a senior leadership role reporting to the Director of IT Strategy & Architecture, where we bring together integration engineering, data engineering and Generative AI engineering across three senior technical leaders. We are a UK investment platform business helping people invest with ease, with over 762,000 customers and more than 121.5 billion of assets under management. We offer a supportive and collaborative culture, hybrid working with a minimum of 60% of working time in the office, and a range of benefits including 28 days holiday, 8% pension with matched contributions, discretionary bonus, share schemes, private healthcare support, onsite gym access, enhanced family leave, and learning and development opportunities. We are recognised as one of the UKs Best 100 Companies to Work For and a Great Place to Work, and we are committed to inclusion, flexibility and building a friendly, high-performing team environment.

last updated 34 week of 2026