The Senior AI Delivery Lead will expand AI delivery capabilities, lead client engagements, ensure innovative AI solutions, and enhance team leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Role purpose
We are seeking an experienced AI Delivery Lead to help Capco Continental Europe (CE) further develop and scale our AI delivery capability. This senior role combines hands-on technical depth with strong cloud architecture leadership, team leadership and client-facing advisory skills in regulated financial services environments.
What you’ll bring
Technical depth & delivery expertise
- Deep expertise in building production grade agentic applications, including design patterns for orchestration, tool use, evaluation, observability, and safe operation in real-world environments.
- Strong architecture skills for designing scalable, cloud-based solutions that run reliably in financial services / corporate environments, including security, compliance, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Hands-on software engineering capability, with a proven track record as a software engineer (e.g., designing, building, shipping, and operating systems in production).
- Deep expertise applying AI across the SDLC, from ideation and prototyping through engineering, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in operations.
Leadership & stakeholder management
- Team leadership experience, including building, coaching, and running teams of talented software engineers and AI engineers.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage CIOs/CTOs and translate complex technical topics into clear, outcome-driven narratives for C-level audiences.
- Strong judgement and pragmatism: ability to balance innovation with what is safe, feasible, and valuable in production and regulated settings.
What you will do
- Expand and manage Capco CE’s AI delivery capability, improving how we deliver AI solutions at scale across Continental Europe.
- Lead and support client engagements, acting as engagement lead and providing hands-on guidance to delivery teams on the ground.
- Support the sales process, contributing thought leadership, shaping proposals, and participating in client discussions to define viable AI solutions and delivery approaches.
- Drive innovation, delivering demonstrators, accelerators, and reusable assets in collaboration with Capco’s internal AI workforce.
- Partner closely with the CE AI Lab, ensuring knowledge, experience, standards, and innovation are embedded into the AI delivery organization and consistently applied across projects.
Success in this role looks like
- A measurable step-change in repeatable AI delivery, including methods, reference architectures, reusable components, and delivery playbooks.
- Increased confidence from clients and internal teams in Capco’s ability to deliver production-grade agentic AI in regulated environments.
- Strong growth in high-quality engagements, with clear outcomes and sustainable operational ownership.
If you feel this is an ideal next career step for you, we’d like to hear from you.
Top Skills
AI
Cloud Architecture
Capco Edinburgh, Scotland Office
The Eagle Building, 19 Rose St., Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH2 2PR
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