Digital Acceleration Lead, Director

Join us as a Digital Acceleration Lead

- Drive the acceleration and scaling of digital, data and AI-enabled solutions across Risk, turning strategic priorities and proven ideas into reusable capabilities that deliver sustainable business value and improved risk outcomes

- Partner with senior stakeholders and delivery teams across a complex operating environment that enables the successful transition from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption

- You'll lead a team to deliver priority interventions, build colleagues skills, confidence and embed lasting ownership across the Risk function

- We're offering this role at director level

What you’ll do

As a Digital Acceleration Lead, you'll be responsible for driving the delivery of digital, data and AI-powered solutions that support Risk's strategic objectives, enhance business outcomes and set the direction for data-driven oversight, analytics and knowledge management capabilities.

In addition, you’ll also lead the identification, industrialisation and expansion of high-impact digital, AI-enabled capabilities and a team that combines solution delivery with capability development, fostering digital and AI skills across Risk, strengthening colleague ownership

You’ll also be responsible for:

- Supporting the delivery of digital solutions across Risk and deliver business outcomes

- Accelerating the adoption of digital and AI-enabled ways of working by delivering priority interventions that build lasting capability, confidence and self-sufficiency within Risk

- Translating senior stakeholder priorities and Risk function roadmaps into a balanced portfolio of targeted interventions, proof of concept, capability-building activities and scalable solutions

- Leading a team to provide a deliver-and-develop model, combining outcome delivery with capability transfer and skills development

- Designing and delivering joint engagements that embed specialist expertise alongside Risk colleagues to build ownership and sustainable capability

- Scaling prioritised solutions into governed, maintainable and reusable products supported by appropriate guidance, training and adoption approaches

- Developing strategic partnership to define and implement a pathway from proof of concept through scalability to enterprise adoption and deployment of high-value digital capabilities across Risk, building practical digital and AI capability across Risk

The skills you’ll need

Experience leading large-scale technology and transformation initiatives with strong expertise in digital, data and AI-enabled solutions. Ideal candidate will bring proven track record of driving innovation from concept through to production and delivering scalable solutions.

You'll demonstrate strong technical leadership and the ability to work independently in a highly ambiguous environment. In addition, you'll bring experience leading and developing technical teams with the ability to build capability, establish governance and scale delivery.

In addition, you’ll need:

- Strong knowledge of AWS based platforms and RAG architecture

- Experience across technology, transformation and Risk-related domains

- Strong Enterprise Risk background with proven leadership and stakeholder management experience
Hours
45

Job Posting Closing Date:
10/11/2026