Senior Director, Data Platform & AI Engineering
Royaume-Uni
Pologne
Allemagne
France
The Senior Director, Data Platform & AI Engineering is responsible for leading Pontoon’s software engineering capability and modernizing the platforms, applications, integration patterns, agents, and automation foundations that support Pontoon’s current and future digital products.
This role reports directly to the Vice President, Products & Innovation and acts as the senior engineering leader for the modernization of Pontoon’s technology foundation, including the development of scalable services, secure application architecture, reusable automation capabilities, and the technical building blocks required for Pontoon’s Agentic platform.
The role ensures that software engineering, automation, application development, AI-enabled capabilities, and integration work are delivered as one coherent technical capability. Senior Director, Data Platform & AI Engineering will partner closely with product management, data and analytics leaders, transformation leadership, operations, enterprise technology, security, and business stakeholders to translate product strategy into reliable, scalable, and maintainable engineering outcomes.
• Lead Pontoon’s software engineering organization across application development, platform modernization, automation engineering, integration, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities.
• Modernize Pontoon’s existing platform landscape by improving architecture, scalability, maintainability, security, integration quality, and speed of change across core digital products and services.
• Build the engineering foundation for Pontoon’s Agentic platform, including services, APIs, workflows, automation frameworks, agent orchestration patterns, reusable components, and AI-ready technical capabilities.
• Translate product strategy and transformation priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure that agents, automation, and application-development work are designed around real business use cases, practical adoption, operational resilience, and measurable value.
• Provide technical leadership for the development of agentic and automation-enabled capabilities that support hiring, workforce management, operational efficiency, decision support, and service delivery.
• Establish engineering standards, coding practices, architecture principles, development processes, release discipline, documentation expectations, and quality controls across teams.
• Strengthen Pontoon’s ability to move from prototypes and experiments into scalable, secure, supportable, and production-ready solutions.
• Partner with Product Management to convert product roadmaps into executable software delivery plans, ensuring engineering teams understand priorities, dependencies, risks, and expected business outcomes.
• Partner with data, analytics, AI, automation, and business stakeholders to ensure that software engineering outputs are connected to trusted data, actionable insights, responsible AI practices, and the future agentic operating model.
• Oversee technical governance across software architecture, APIs, integrations, environments, automation frameworks, cloud services, technical debt, performance, reliability, and security requirements.
• Act as a senior technical advisor to Products & Innovation leadership, providing clear
recommendations on feasibility, complexity, delivery options, architectural trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and investment needs.
• Collaborate with enterprise technology, security, legal, compliance, procurement, and external technology partners to ensure solutions are aligned to enterprise standards and can scale responsibly across the business.
• Develop and coach engineering leaders and technical talent, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, innovation, pragmatic execution, and continuous improvement.
• Create transparency across engineering work by supporting effective planning, prioritization, delivery reporting, risk management, and communication of progress to senior stakeholders.
• Stay informed about emerging software engineering, AI, agentic automation, cloud, integration, and platform trends, and assess how these capabilities can create practical value for Pontoon and itsclients.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Significant experience leading software engineering, application development, platform engineering, automation, or digital product delivery teams in a business-facing environment.
• Experience translating product strategy, business needs, and transformation priorities into engineering roadmaps, delivery plans, and technical execution.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders across product, technology, operations, security, legal, compliance, procurement, sales, and client-facing functions.
• Experience with AI, agentic platforms, workflow automation, machine learning-enabled products, data-driven applications, or digital transformation programs is strongly preferred.
• Experience in workforce solutions, HR technology, managed service provider environments, SaaS, platform businesses, or contingent workforce management is preferred but not required.
• Skilled in communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Proven ability to modernize legacy or fragmented technology landscapes into scalable, secure, maintainable, and well-governed platforms and services.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, application architecture, APIs, cloud services, integration patterns, automation frameworks, AI-enabled development, and platform operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and develop technical leaders across software engineering, automation, integration, application development, and related disciplines.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to executive and non-technical audiences, including options, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and recommended decisions.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
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Posting date: 15-10-2026
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