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Orbis Group

Head of Data & AI - FinTech

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London, United kingdom

£ 210,000 /year

Full Time

10-11-2025

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Communication Data Engineering Architecture Data Architecture Azure AWS GCP Snowflake Databricks

Job Specifications

Head of Data & AI — FinTech

Orbis are partnering with a high-growth FinTech firm with over 500 employees globally. The firm have been on an incredible growth journey, both organically and through acquisitions, and this is showing no signs of slowing down.

As they continue their incredible growth journey with a series of key business acquisitions, they are now looking for an experienced Head of Data & AI who can deliver a consolidated data strategy and a roadmap for the use of AI and modern data technology.

Your responsibilities in this role will be:

Define and own the end-to-end Data & AI strategy across multiple business units and platforms
Consolidating and modernising multi-cloud data platforms and setting target data architecture for current and newly merged businesses
Leading a lean, high-performing Data function (staying ~20% hands-on), partnering closely with C- Suite
Owning the AI/ML roadmap, including for insights, automation and driving measurable business outcomes

To be successful in this role, you will need:

Strong proven experience running data teams and platforms as well as managing data strategy for a high-growth Financial Services or FinTech firm.
A Data Engineering background (or similar) with excellent hands-on experience and understanding of Data Warehouse (e.g. BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks), orchestration, data modelling and cloud technology (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong AI literacy, including leveraging AI to pull insights from structured and unstructured data
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate with and present to C-Suite.

If you feel your experience is a match with the above, please apply with an up to date copy of your CV in the first instance

About the Company

We are Orbis Group. We work with brands that are passionate about tech, diversity, community and change. Our vision is to be the premier source for identifying and connecting excellence across financial services, life sciences and technology. We are people specialists. Our mission is to continuously define and identify excellence; refined to exact requirements through the rewarding experience of better partnerships. This is connecting excellence. Email: info@weareorbis.com London: 0203 854 0024 To view live roles and... Know more