• Join Moneybox, the award-winning UK wealth management platform, in a hybrid leadership role based in London.
• Become the first hire in a newly created AI Platforms function, reporting to the Engineering Director.
• Own both the AI platform strategy and a team of forward-deployed AI engineers solving real business problems.
• Work hands-on from day one to help the business use AI safely with today’s tools.
• Build a multi-year platform covering control and sandboxing, agentic workflow orchestration and knowledge capture.
• Own the hosting and scaling of customer-facing AI models behind the Aurora financial guidance service.
• Visit the London office by the Oxo Tower 2 days a week.
📋 Job Requirements
• Bring proven engineering leadership, including managing engineers and managers, running programmes and owning budgets.
• Show experience owning an AI platform or enablement capability in a real organisation within the last 2–3 years.
• Demonstrate company-wide AI tooling deployment, governance and cost management at scale.
• Show experience building or significantly scaling a team.
• Bring current, hands-on fluency with frontier model platforms, agentic tooling, MCP, evals, and prompt and context engineering.
• Understand AI security and governance, including sandboxing, LLM and MCP gateways, DLP and guardrails.
• Apply cost engineering skills across usage-based pricing, forecasting and optimisation.
• Bring enough software and cloud architecture depth to work with .NET on Azure and Python for AI.
• Evaluate and manage vendors in a fast-moving market.
• Express platform investment in ROI and EBITDA terms to non-technical executives.
• Be based in the UK and work from the London office 2 days a week.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Bring experience in financial services or another regulated industry.
• Show hands-on experience selecting or implementing LLM or MCP gateways, sandboxed agent hosting or agentic workflow platforms.
• Bring experience serving customer-facing AI models in production alongside data science teams.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Own the AI platform strategy, including risk management, supplier selection, business cases and benefits realisation.
• Hire, line-manage and set priorities for a team of forward-deployed AI engineers.
• Set and own the defensive AI strategy in collaboration with Tech Ops and the Principal Cloud Architect.
• Own AI platforms and costs, including tooling, forecasting, optimisation and the staff access model.
• Set internal AI safety standards covering sandboxing, policy, MCP governance, guardrails and monitoring.
• Build a graduation ladder that takes AI tools from personal use to owned business systems.
• Evolve existing Claude, Gemini and other LLM deployments into a coherent strategic platform.
• Own hosting and scaling for AI workloads, including customer-facing models for Aurora.
• Give departments clear guardrails and fast risk assessments so they can use AI safely today.
About Moneybox
😃 What Moneybox offers
• Build a brand-new AI function from scratch as its first hire.
• Receive a competitive remuneration package, company pension and bonus scheme.
• Work in a hybrid setup with 2 days a week in the London office.
• Get a home office furniture allowance and a personal annual learning budget.
• Get private medical insurance and a health cash plan for dental and optical costs.
• Join the cycle to work scheme and get a Wellhub subscription for gyms and wellbeing apps.
• Benefit from enhanced parental pay and leave.
• Enjoy 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with extra days added for length of service.
💖 What makes Moneybox unique
Moneybox is an award-winning wealth management platform on a mission to give everyone the means to get more out of life. It helps over one and a half million people build wealth throughout their lives, whether they are saving and investing, buying their first home or planning for retirement. Its engineering team runs a live service handling over 20 million API requests a day.
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