Head of Platform and AI Engineering

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid, with a minimum of three days per week in the London office

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in financial administration with more than 11,000 employees across over 22 countries.

What you will do

• Define and execute the global Platform and AI Engineering strategy, architecture and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead engineering across hybrid cloud, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, observability and internal developer platforms.
• Establish enterprise AI platform services covering model access, routing, governance, metering, logging and audit.
• Drive adoption of AI coding assistants and agentic automation across the software development lifecycle.
• Develop engineering standards, reference architectures, golden paths and policy-as-code controls, and run platform services as products.
• Lead globally distributed teams, manage budgets and suppliers, and oversee cloud, GPU consumption, licensing and FinOps activities.

Requirements

• Extensive leadership experience in platform, cloud, DevOps or AI engineering within a large, regulated and multi-region organisation.
• Architect-level knowledge of Azure or AWS, Kubernetes, private cloud, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, observability and SRE.
• Strong AI platform engineering knowledge, including LLM gateways, model serving, orchestration, guardrails and agent frameworks.
• Experience establishing DevSecOps practices and securing the software supply chain.
• Ability to translate complex technical strategy into business outcomes, investment cases and executive decisions.
• Strong commercial, financial and vendor-management capability.
• Experience building high-performing global teams and leading significant technology transformation.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including experience working with C-level stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work designed to support work-life balance.
• Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to employees and their families.
• Salary-sacrifice share purchase scheme with a company contribution.
• Recognition awards, team gatherings and other rewards.
• Inclusive, welcoming and close-knit global technology community with opportunities for learning and career progression.