Executive Director, AI Data Engineering (UK), TWG Global AI, GB

At TWG Group Holdings, LLC ("TWG Global"), we drive innovation and business transformation across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, technology, media, and sports, by leveraging data and AI as core assets. Our AI-first, cloud-native approach delivers real-time intelligence and interactive business applications, empowering informed decision-making for both customers and employees.

We prioritize responsible data and AI practices, ensuring ethical standards and regulatory compliance. Our decentralized structure enables each business unit to operate autonomously, supported by a central AI Solutions Group, while strategic partnerships with leading data and AI vendors fuel game-changing efforts in marketing, operations, and product development.

You will collaborate with management to advance our data and analytics transformation, enhance productivity, and enable agile, data-driven decisions. By leveraging relationships with top tech startups and universities, you will help create competitive advantages and drive enterprise innovation.

At TWG Global, your contributions will support our goal of sustained growth and superior returns, as we deliver rare value and impact across our businesses.

The Role:

You will own TWG Global's enterprise data and AI platform strategy and execution across a decentralized portfolio of businesses. Your mandate is to set the vision, operating model, and technical direction for AI-ready data, then deliver it at scale. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team that builds and runs secure, compliant, reliable data platforms and products that power analytics, machine learning, and real-time decisioning. You will partner with business unit leaders, Risk, Compliance, and the AI Solutions Group to translate strategy into measurable outcomes, manage budget and vendor ecosystem, and raise the bar on governance and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Define and socialize the multi-year roadmap for data platforms, data products, and AI enablement across TWG Global.
• Establish a federated operating model that enables autonomous business units while enforcing shared standards, contracts, and controls.
• Set enterprise KPIs for data reliability, time to data, time to model, unit cost, and compliance.
• Architect the canonical data platform spanning ingestion, transformation, feature stores, metadata, lineage, observability, and serving for batch and streaming.
• Approve reference architectures and patterns for data products and ML features that are reusable across businesses.
• Lead portfolio planning and delivery for cross-company initiatives.
• Ensure production-grade SLAs for pipelines, features, and data services, with clear on-call and incident management practices.
• Industrialize model handoffs from AI Science to ML Engineering through standardized interfaces, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with UK and international regulations relevant to financial services and insurance.
• Implement first-line controls for data quality, lineage, and retention, with automated evidence generation.
• Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing bench across data engineering, platform, reliability, and governance.
• Set engineering standards, conduct design and program reviews, and develop career paths and succession plans.
• Act as the senior point of contact for C-level and business unit leaders on data and AI platform matters.
• Manage strategic vendors and university or startup partnerships to accelerate capability and reduce time to value.