Capital on Tap - Head of AI Enablement & Engineering

London2w ago

In Office Director EMEA Cybersecurity Cloud Computing CTO CEO Head of Engineering Team Leadership Reporting .NET Azure C#

Requirements

• As Head of AI Engineering & Enablement, you'll own how Capital on Tap uses AI to design, build, test and ship software. You'll set AI strategy across Product and Engineering, lead a small, elite AI Enablement team, and work hand in hand with every product team to change how they work, not just which tools they use. You'll report to our CTO and work closely with our CEO.

Responsibilities

• Set the plan: In your first 30 days, baseline how fast and how well we build today. Then set out a 12-month plan to triple it, with clear measures the leadership team tracks. • Set the plan: • Rebuild how we ship: Redesign our software delivery lifecycle around agentic AI, from spec through code, review, testing and release, and make it the default in every product team. • Rebuild how we ship: • Own the AI engineering stack: Lead decisions on AI developer tooling, model access, AI gateway and evaluation, balancing capability, cost and vendor independence. • Own the AI engineering stack: • Move fast, safely: Partner with InfoSec, Data Protection, Risk and Compliance to set guardrails that let us move quickly in an FCA-regulated business. • Move fast, safely: • Run the team: Lead our AI Enablement team to change how we build • Run the team: • What Success Looks Like in 12 Months 📅 • We're delivering roughly three times the customer value per quarter, against the baseline you set • AI-native ways of working are the default in every product and engineering team, not a side project • Robust, auditable guardrails our risk and compliance teams trust • A team and playbook that keep compounding without you in the room • We’re Looking For 🔎 • You've led an AI-driven transformation in how a product and engineering organisation builds software, with measurable results to show for it. • Deep, hands-on experience with agentic coding tools and LLM-based workflows. You still build platforms and systems, and you have strong opinions on where these tools work and where they don't. • You've built and led high-performing engineering teams on strong technical foundations. C#/.NET and Azure experience is a big plus • Bonus points for experience with introducing agentic AI into infrastructure, observability and data pipelines • Commercial judgement to think in cost, ROI and customer outcomes, plus experience in a regulated environment designing controls that enable rather than block • Our Values & Culture 🌞 • Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly. • Just Pilot: • Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.

Benefits

• Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard. • Be a Buddy: • Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done. • Owners and Dates: • Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback. • Feedback: • Interview Process 🤝 • Stage 1: 30min Video Call with Talent Partner • Stage 2: 45min Video Call, AI Transformation Walkthrough • Stage 3: 2hours On-Site, Case Study + Meet the CTO + Meet the CEO (if successful in the Case Study) • Diversity & Inclusion 🌈We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work. • Diversity & Inclusion • Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here. • Other Info👍Check out our ‘Top Tips’ for interviewing.✔️Keep updated on new job opportunities by following us on Linkedin.📧Email [email protected] if you have any questions. • Other Info • Excited to work here? Apply!If you’d like to progress your career within our fast growing, profitable fintech then click apply and we will aim to get back to you within 3 working days (during busy periods this could take up to 5 working days.) • Excited to work here? Apply!