
AI Product Lead & Senior Platform Engineer | Wealth Management & Private Banking | London Hybrid | £80,000 – £110,000
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Executive Hurdles Recruitment is supporting one of Europe's most prestigious wealth management and private banking groups with two senior technology appointments in London.
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Both roles sit within a major technology modernisation programme at a firm managing several billion in assets across the UK. Operating with an entrepreneurial, high-conviction culture, this is a business investing significantly in next-generation technology — and these are high-visibility appointments at the heart of that investment.
The Roles
AI Product Lead
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Salary: £80,000 – £100,000
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Type: Permanent, Hybrid | London
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Lead the discovery, design and deployment of agentic AI workflows across core front-to-back business functions — bridging enterprise strategy and hands-on execution within a highly regulated, high-touch financial environment
Senior Platform Engineer
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Salary: £80,000 – £110,000
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Type: Permanent, Hybrid | London
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Drive the technical design, evolution and automation of the firm's enterprise Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes platform ecosystem — significant technical ownership within a senior, high-impact mandate
Role 1 — AI Product Lead
What the role involves:
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Collaborate with business heads, investment teams and operational units to identify high-impact AI opportunities
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Own AI use cases end-to-end — from problem framing and prototyping through to production rollout and optimisation
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Design and deploy agentic AI workflows and automated systems tailored to private wealth processes, compliance requirements and operational constraints
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Facilitate discovery workshops and translate complex business challenges into clear technical specifications
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Monitor agent performance, user adoption and ROI post-launch — establishing reusable patterns and guardrails across the firm
What we are looking for:
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Hands-on experience designing and implementing LLM-driven workflows, agentic tool orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls — essential
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Proven track record operating between commercial stakeholders and technical engineering environments
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Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Business Informatics, Finance, or equivalent practical experience
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Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills in English — additional European languages (German) a plus
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Prior exposure to Private Banking, Wealth Management or wider Financial Services — highly desirable
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Working knowledge of enterprise security, cloud integration, data governance and regulatory compliance in banking
Role 2 — Senior Platform Engineer
What the role involves:
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Serve as hands-on technical lead within the Platform & Infrastructure practice — driving execution of the firm's enterprise cloud and platform roadmap
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Design, provision and maintain a resilient, secure and scalable Azure cloud estate across compute, networking, storage, identity and governance
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Architect and optimise enterprise CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure delivery using GitLab, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and GitOps-aligned release patterns
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Establish reusable platform components, reference architectures and golden paths to accelerate application delivery within strict regulatory baselines
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Drive observability and operational resilience initiatives across the platform estate
What we are looking for:
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Demonstrated track record in a Senior Platform, Infrastructure or Cloud Engineering role — financial services or regulated enterprise environment strongly preferred
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Deep practical mastery of Microsoft Azure — core infrastructure, IAM/Entra ID, network security, landing zones and cloud governance — essential
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Advanced Terraform capability with proven ability to build clean, modular, reusable IaC templates — essential
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Solid hands-on proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm — essential
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Production experience with CI/CD pipeline design and automation using GitLab CI or comparable platforms
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Strong shell automation (PowerShell, Bash) and practical coding capability in Python or Go
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Experience with observability tooling: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent
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Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion:
