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Key Accountabilities
Technical Leadership
- Own the technical architecture and design of AI-powered solutions across the division.
- Make and document key technology decisions, covering frameworks, patterns, and tooling.
- Establish coding standards, review processes, and engineering best practices for the team.
- Design scalable and secure solutions that integrate across complex enterprise landscapes, including multiple ERP systems and data platforms.
- Lead the adoption and effective use of AI-assisted development tools, including Kiro as the primary IDE.
Hands-On Development
- Actively contribute to solution development, building features and prototypes alongside the team.
- Build and integrate AI capabilities using AWS Bedrock, including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and AI agent development.
- Develop modern web applications using Next.js, React, and Node.js.
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code that sets the standard for the rest of the team.
Team Leadership and Mentoring
- Line manage a small team.
- Mentor and develop team members, with particular focus on supporting the apprentice through their learning journey.
- Run day-to-day delivery including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog management.
- Foster a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Quality and Governance
- Champion a shift-left approach to quality where testing is embedded in development, not a separate activity.
- Enforce automated testing standards across all deliverables, covering unit, integration, and API tests.
- Work closely with the Cloud Infrastructure team under a hybrid DevOps model to ensure robust CI/CD pipelines and secure deployments.
- Act as the security and governance champion, ensuring all solutions meet the requirements of the internal review board.
- Ensure responsible AI practices are followed, including output validation and bias awareness.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear language for non-technical stakeholders.
- Present to and support the internal review board on technical and security matters.
- Collaborate with the Divisional Digital Lead on roadmap planning and prioritisation.
- Work with the Cloud Infrastructure team to agree boundaries, standards, and shared tooling.
- This list is not exhaustive and other duties may be required that are within the capabilities of the post holder.
Governance & Enablement
- Ensure all AI solutions comply with data protection regulations and internal governance frameworks
- Support the rollout of AI tools to business users through training, documentation, and pre-configured agent templates
- Collaborate with IT security teams to maintain compliance with group policies and security standards
- Champion responsible AI practices and contribute to the AI governance framework
- Ensure the site is compliant to Group Standards and Policies
- To ensure compliance with the requirements of ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 & 50001 accreditations and all other certifications currently in place, including CE marking. o Operation of the relevant site Compliance Management System requirements as per ISO 37301 Clause 5.3.2, responsible for compliance within areas of Management responsibility as detailed in clause 5.3.3 and personal accountability to activities within Clause 5.3.4:
- To comply with the management obligations of ISO 37301 clause 5.3.3 and to ensure site adherence to and operation of the Compliance Management System responsibilities within Clause 5.3.4
- Adhere to the organisations compliance obligations, policies, processes, and procedures;
- Report compliance concerns, issues, and failures;
- Participate in training as required;
- Adhere to the organisations compliance obligations, policies, processes, and procedures.
- Report compliance concerns, issues, and failures.
- Participate in training as required.
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