Director of AI in London

At Intact Insurance UK Limited, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers.

As Director of AI - Chief Data Office, you will be part of the leadership team within the Chief Data Office and responsible for overseeing Artificial Intelligence initiatives. This will include responsible AI frameworks and processes, AI governance, enhancing our AI capabilities, enabling AI driven decision making, and fostering a culture of innovation within the organisation.

You will develop and execute a comprehensive AI strategy aligned with the CDO, the organisations business objectives and the CIO operating model. You will be identifying and pursuing innovative projects that leverage data and AI to drive business value. Your role will drive experimentation through prototypes and proof of concepts by providing sandbox environments, tooling advisory, and accelerators for AI solutions.

You will drive Intact Insurance UK Limited to be the leading edge through researching and implementing the latest trends and advancements in data science and AI, whilst integrating relevant technologies into the lab's projects. As part of your role, you will design, support the development of, and oversee the deployment of ML models.

You will define and manage AI frameworks for the organisation, ensuring all data and AI practices comply with relevant regulations, ethical standards, and internal policies, this includes enabling teams by establishing and managing central AI governance. Your role will establish an AI CoE to bring together Data, technology, risk, and business functions to achieve the groups AI ambitions and goals, partnering with our parent company to accelerate our journey.

You will build, mentor and lead a high-performing team of data scientists and ML engineers, whilst providing senior leaders appropriate recommendations and reporting on AI initiatives and usage at Intact.

You will have an extensive background in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI with an understanding of the insurance business, including commercial and specialty lines. You will have an excellent understanding of responsible AI, Data Architecture, Machine Learning, and analytics frameworks with a passion for keeping up to date with the latest developments in Data and AI.

An excellent understanding of Azure, Databricks, and ML Platforms and using and rolling out LLM models in an enterprise will be required for your role. You will have extensive experience with tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn and knowledge of data engineering and cloud platforms.

You will be an experienced leader, with excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, explaining complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders. An excellent knowledge of compliance frameworks and ethical AI guidelines will be required for your role.

At Intact we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future.

We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Our employee promise allows you to shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.

We celebrate individuality and it's important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves.

We understand that home life is a priority and are happy to consider reduced hours or job shares. If you think you would be a great fit for us, but don't meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us as we'd love to discuss how RSA could be the next step in your career journey.

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