AI Enablement Lead

AI Enablement Lead1 year Fixed-term contract | £80,000 - £120,000 | London, 2 days a week in officeAbout the CompanyWe’re working with a major consumer group operating across a number of regulated European markets, with a large in-house technology function and a well-established internal AI platform already in production.Adoption of that platform today sits with a committed minority. This role exists to change that, moving AI from something a handful of enthusiasts use into everyday, governed practice across Tech. It’s a fixed-term appointment with a clear mandate: a coaching and capability-building remit rather than a build role, where the brief is to make teams self-sufficient rather than to deliver for them.What You’ll Be DoingRun practical, hands-on workshops where engineers and product teams leave having built and shipped something working themselvesCoach technical teams and domain experts through the full lifecycle, from spotting a worthwhile use case, through scoping, to a first working solution they ownTriage incoming use cases, separating quick wins teams can deliver alone from those needing architect-level support or a different discipline entirelyBuild training material on RAG, agent design, prompt engineering and API integration, pitched at a technical audience and grounded in real internal scenariosMake governance, security and data classification part of the design conversation from day one, and upskill teams to self-serve on documentation and release standardsFlag gaps in process, tooling or guidance, and work with platform owners to close themA secondary strand, roughly a fifth of the role, covers coding assistant adoption across engineeringWhat They’re Looking ForYears of hands-on in data engineering, ML or AI engineering, solutions architecture or DevOps, followed by a deliberate move into enablement, consultancy or internal transformationTrack record of coaching others to deploy agents or retrieval pipelines in production, not simply building them yourselfStrong prompt engineering depth, covering system prompts, structured output and evaluation, with the ability to teach itWorking knowledge of at least one low-code automation platform, enough to train others crediblySolid grasp of enterprise integration patterns including REST, OAuth and SSO, rate limiting and data movement between systemsGenuine conviction about governance and oversight, built on having seen what happens without itAble to translate technical complexity for non-technical audiences and hold credibility with senior stakeholdersDesirable: regulated sector background, MCP or similar agent connectivity frameworks, vector databases and semantic search, commercial LLM provider experience, multi-site deliveryWhat’s On OfferA fixed-term contract paying £80,000 to £120,000 depending on experience, hybrid with two days a week in a central London office. You’ll own AI capability uplift across a technology function of over a thousand people, with scope to define the standard rather than inherit one. Well suited to someone who likes a defined mandate with a visible endpoint and measurable impact.If this role interests you and you would like to find out more (or find out about other roles), please apply here or contact us via niall.wharton@Xcede.com (feel free to include a CV for review).