Commercial
Lending AI Platform Lead – Director
Location: London
Working pattern: Hybrid/1-2 days per week onsite
Contract length: Initially 6 months
IR35 status: Inside IR35
Rate: Competitive
The strongest candidate will be a senior platform engineering or architecture leader who has personally led the creation and production operation of an enterprise AI platform. You should combine deep engineering credibility with agentic AI expertise, enterprise architecture, large-scale technology leadership and executive stakeholder management. Crucially, your experience should demonstrate ownership of the underlying platform capabilities that enable multiple teams to develop, deploy, govern and operate AI solutions at scale. The role A major financial services organisation is undertaking a three-to-four-year transformation of Commercial Lending, centred on Matrix, its strategic agentic AI platform. Matrix will provide the foundational capabilities required to support next-generation lending journeys, colleague experiences, intelligent decisioning and broader technology use cases. As Commercial Lending AI Platform Lead, you will have end-to-end ownership of the strategy, architecture, engineering, delivery and operation of Matrix and the wider Commercial Lending AI platform ecosystem. The focus is on creating secure, scalable and governed platform foundations that allow multiple teams to build, deploy and operate agentic AI safely within a highly regulated enterprise. This is a Director-level technology leadership position rather than a traditional Head of AI, AI Product Lead, Delivery Director or Data Science Lead role. You will need deep technical credibility in AI platform architecture and engineering, combined with experience leading major transformation, multidisciplinary teams and executive-level stakeholder engagement. Key responsibilities
Own the Commercial Lending AI platform strategy, target architecture and roadmap.
Lead the design, engineering and evolution of Matrix and its associated enterprise AI capabilities.
Establish foundations for agent orchestration, agent lifecycle management and controlled production deployment.
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