Data & AI Delivery Lead

About The Role

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Delivery Lead looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What You’ll Be Doing

• Responsible for shaping, managing and delivering initiatives across the Data, Analytics and AI function
• Combining experience of business analysis, stakeholder engagement and delivery leadership to ensure project requirements are clearly understood, appropriately challenged and translated into successful outcomes
• Working across both Group programmes and internal Data, Analytics and AI initiatives, the role will support delivery of the Group Data Strategy
• Create and maintain an internal project management framework, ensuring the appropriate governance, documentation, testing and handover activities are completed
• Support kay strategic initiatives including Fabric, dbt and Purview
  
  

About You

What you’ll bring to the team

Essential criteria –

• Proven experience delivering data, analytics, or AI projects
• Solid understanding of project management disciplines (planning, risk, dependency management, governance)
• Experience producing clear project reporting for senior stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Excellent business analysis and requirements gathering skills
• Experience working with technical delivery teams
  
  

Desirable criteria –

• Experience of data platforms, governance or analytics delivery would be advantageous
• Analytical mindset with the ability to challenge assumptions and identify root causes
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
  
  

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply . At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.

Working hours

This is a hybrid role requiring attendance in our Solihull office at least two days per week, with Thursday being a mandatory office day.

The working hours for this role are 8:30am to 5:00pm - 37.5 hours per week.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

About Us

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies : We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover
  
  

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.