AI Innovation Lead (Automation Lead) 6-MONTH CONTRACT | LONDON, HYBRID Lead a two-person innovation team inside a large, global financial technology business, sourcing and framing AI and automation opportunities across the enterprise, then building working prototypes alongside a Specialist to prove them out fast. You own the pipeline, the commercial case for every pilot, and the call on what gets scaled or killed. High autonomy, light-touch direction, direct line to a Director. What you'll do<ul><li>Build and manage a pipeline of AI and automation opportunities sourced directly from business and operations teams.</li><li>Frame every pilot commercially before build starts, quantifying value (revenue, cost, risk, speed) and defining success criteria and stop conditions.</li><li>Build hands-on alongside a Specialist across the existing technology stack, including Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce and Snowflake.</li><li>Run structured pilots with real users, setting up measurement (baseline, result, delta) and reporting outcomes accurately and transparently.</li><li>Iterate quickly on feedback and flag early when something isn't working.</li><li>Manage relationships with business leads and bring partner functions in early so pilots don't stall at governance gates.</li><li>Own the team's tool and tech radar, testing new AI and automation tools against real use cases and sharing findings, tools tested, capability, cost, security posture, integration effort.</li></ul>What you'll bring<ul><li>Demonstrated experience building AI-enabled solutions, prototypes, agents or automations, hands-on, not just AI-aware.</li><li>Strong understanding of LLM strengths, limitations and risks.</li><li>Strong commercial acumen, able to size an opportunity, build a benefits case and defend the numbers to senior stakeholders.</li><li>Comfortable working directly with business teams, this is a business-facing role, not back-office engineering.</li><li>Consulting toolkit: structured problem solving, storytelling and crisp executive communication.</li><li>Sound judgement balancing value, risk, complexity and speed, and the discipline to conclude underperforming pilots early with clear rationale.</li><li>Independent, resourceful and comfortable with limited direction in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.</li><li>Background in a consulting firm or technology company preferred.</li></ul>Nice to have<ul><li>Salesforce ecosystem, AI agent frameworks, AI coding tools, data platforms or the AWS ecosystem.</li><li>ML fundamentals, understands features in, predictions out, and can support model-adjacent pilots such as churn.</li><li>Payments, fintech or financial services background.</li><li>Experience training or supporting non-technical users on new tools.</li></ul>

AI Innovation Lead (Automation Lead)

AI Innovation Specialist 6-MONTH CONTRACT | LONDON, HYBRID A build-first role inside a two-person innovation team sitting within a large, global financial technology business. You'll prototype AI agents and automations that go straight in front of real users in Commercial and Operations teams, then hand proven pilots to delivery teams to scale. High autonomy, light-touch direction, fast pace. What you'll do<ul><li>Build agents and automations across Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce and Snowflake.</li><li>Prototype LLM use cases on AWS Bedrock and other platforms, writing and refining prompts, agent instructions and evaluation criteria.</li><li>Run structured pilots with real users, measuring baseline, result and delta, and reporting outcomes transparently.</li><li>Iterate fast on feedback and flag early when something isn't working.</li><li>Query and prepare data for pilots, integrating prototypes with downstream platforms.</li><li>Produce build guides, prompt documentation and integration requirements.</li><li>Train frontline users on new tools through simple guides and short sessions.</li><li>Scout automation platforms and agent frameworks outside the core stack, benchmarking capability, cost and integration effort against the incumbent.</li></ul>What you'll bring<ul><li>Demonstrated experience building AI-enabled solutions, prototypes, agents or automations, not just AI-aware, hands-on.</li><li>Ability to rapidly prototype, test and iterate on modern AI platforms.</li><li>Solid understanding of LLM strengths, limitations and risks.</li><li>Comfortable gathering requirements, demonstrating solutions and acting on feedback quickly.</li><li>Basic commercial awareness (revenue, cost, risk) and can explain results to non-technical audiences.</li><li>Structured, analytical problem solver who translates ambiguous challenges into practical AI and automation opportunities.</li><li>Independent, resourceful and comfortable with limited direction in a fast-moving environment.</li><li>Background in a technology company, consulting firm or similarly high-pace environment preferred.</li></ul>Nice to have<ul><li>Salesforce ecosystem, AI agent frameworks, AI coding tools, data platforms or the AWS ecosystem.</li><li>ML fundamentals, understands features in, predictions out, and can support model-adjacent pilots such as churn.</li><li>Experience training or supporting non-technical users on new tools.</li></ul>

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Senior Analyst, Marketing Science & Measurement | LondonI’m recruiting for a Senior Analyst opportunity within a leading global marketing analytics and data science team. You’ll work with major brands on media measurement, attribution, marketing mix modelling, optimisation and advanced analytics, while also getting exposure to AI and data science innovation. Ideal for someone with 3+ years’ experience in media analytics, marketing science or a similar environment, with strong experience in MMM, attribution, media optimisation or marketing analytics. London, 3 days a week in the office £50,000 to £55,000 Permanent No visa sponsorship available If you’re interested in developing your career across marketing science, analytics and data science, get in touch for more details.

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Data Quality Lead | Eastleigh | Up to £85,000 I’m recruiting for a Data Quality Lead to join a large UK organisation and play a key role in building an AI ready data future. This is a senior opportunity for someone with strong enterprise Data Quality experience who can own strategy, build frameworks and controls, influence senior stakeholders and lead Data Quality improvements across a complex organisation. You’ll need experience across Data Quality strategy, governance, monitoring, issue management and transformation programmes, alongside exposure to tools such as Collibra and Databricks Unity Catalog. Experience with AWS or Azure is also highly relevant. Eastleigh, 1 day per week in the office is essential Up to £85,000 Permanent ASAP start No visa sponsorship available If you’re interested, please send me your cv to paul.culmer@xcede.com

Data Quality Lead

​With over 15 years of experience working for Xcede, Paul is currently our Senior Principal Consultant in Analytics across the UK and Europe. Leveraging his diverse range of talent acquisition experience, Paul has helped a range of organisations to expand their technology teams. Paul consults on a wide range of analytics-focused roles across all levels, from Customer Insights, Marketing Analysis, Database Marketing and Campaign Management, to Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Forecasting and beyond. Specialists with proven experience in SQL, Python, and R can contact Paul to discuss the latest Analytics roles. 

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