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“Project Atlantic” is a new multisided AI B2B SaaS start up, currently pre-market fit and operating in “stealth” mode focused on fundamentally reimagining two decades of third party and supply chain compliance and commerce assumptions and best practice. While initially based inside Control Risks, the intent is to have “Project Atlantic” spun out and independent at a future point. You will join a small, lean, and highly dynamic environment where creativity, passion, drive, dynamism, intellect, flexibility, and contrarian thinking will be the fundamental qualities we ask in those joining us. Given the lean nature of the team, we are seeking people who are curious to get involved in all aspects of the venture to build a common and seamless product not hindered by silos.

“Project Atlantic” builds on many decades of Control Risks experience supporting clients in complex risk environments, and in 2025 will come to life. As Head of Tech & Engineering, you will be part of the founding team, responsible for painting colour into a black & white image of an AI-enabled future, architecting our vision, and spearheading the technical development, vision and innovation for a V1 product and beyond. Working closely with other founding team members and wider Control Risks colleagues, you will help define the “Project Atlantic” technology stack, develop the technology strategy, and will supervise all technical aspects of the Product and its development, ensuring innovation sits at the core of what we build. You will hire and lead a lean team of technical data scientists, AI specialists, and software developers, and ultimately ensure that the “Project Atlantic” product and ecosystem delivers a truly cutting-edge technology offering that redefines the governance and compliance sector, and is a delight to those customers that use it.

What You'll Do:

Technology stack and technical architecture, strategy & innovation

• You will take ownership for the “Project Atlantic” technology stack and technical vision and architecture, playing a fundamental foundational role in the development and longer-term success of the product and ecosystem.
• Work closely with the Head of Product and other “Project Atlantic” members to bring our product roadmap/vision to life, and elegantly solve our customers’ unmet needs in a transformational and innovative way.
• Define a technology strategy that assesses the advantages of various technical and data opportunities, offers a clear technical vision, and puts deep innovation, including creative artificial intelligence use cases, at the core of our product and longer-term development roadmap.
• Determine the necessary digital tools, infrastructure and hardware required to deliver on our goals and ambitions.
• Build relationships with data and development teams at our data partners to optimise integration and ingestion of their data into our graph, and subsequent analytics and output creation.
• Oversee the design and implementation of a robust and highly scalable technical architecture, ensuring alignment with business requirements, security standards and industry best practices.
• Continually seek out new technology opportunities for us to ensure that “Project Atlantic” pushes the envelope in terms of data structures and scalability, automated disambiguated research, custom reporting and other relevant areas.
• Participate in thought leadership initiatives such as webinars, podcasts, presentations, and publications to enhance the “Project Atlantic” reputation and industry influence.

Build out data science, R&D, and wider software development team

• Create and propagate a culture of innovation, excellence, open mindedness, ownership and contrarian thinking across our software development, data science and R&D teams to deliver recurringly exceptional outputs.
• Build out and lead a lean high-skilled data science, machine learning and AI R&D team to determine and develop appropriate underlying graphing/vector/other data structures, analytics, GenAI model selection, RAG and fine tuning to build proprietary dataset and output necessary custom reporting.
• Build out and lead an AI-enabled lean & agile engineering and software development team to develop wider platform and ecosystem, ensuring clean, error free and healthy structured/well documented code, a future-proofed reusable core code library, optimal QA testing, excellent API integrations, security considerations, and interoperability with existing relevant Control Risks digital platforms.
• Create and manage the technology budget, optimising resource allocation and ensuring cost-effective solutions.
• Drive a culture of automation and artificial intelligence, ensuring every process across the business is evaluated with a view on what can be automated to enhance efficiency and innovation.

Technical governance and integration with wider Control Risks digital ecosystem

• Establish and maintain efficient and reliable technology operations, including systems infrastructure, network, data management and security protocols for high performance, uptime and data integrity.
• Examine existing Control Risk technology stack, architecture and data infrastructure/security, and determine what is relevant in the “Project Atlantic” use case.
• In coordination with the wider Control Risks digital, infosec, Tech Assurance and legal teams, develop and implement information security, disaster recovery and business continuity plans and strategies.
• In coordination with the wider Control Risks digital teams, identify and mitigate technology-related risks, ensuring data privacy and security regulations compliance.

Who You Are:

Knowledge, experience and specialist skills

• Proven significant technical/engineering leadership experience (8+ years) with a focus on lean and agile, ideally inside a SaaS start-up environment.
• Evidence of working inside a pre-product market fit environment, and of being flexible, cross functional, with a demonstrated ability to drive product innovation and bring products to market successfully.
• Strong knowledge and experience in AI derived technologies, including but not limited to Generative AI, LLMs, Machine Learning, Agentic workflows, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Graph databases.
• Deep knowledge of data structures and science, and a clear view on how we might optimise these in “Project Atlantic”, along with a proven ability to hire and manage high skilled data scientists to achieve complex innovative outcomes.
• Advanced level of programming languages and methodologies, and recent experience of leading a team of software developers.
• Strong background in distributed systems and marketplace architectures, coupled with hands-on experience.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and develop high-performing technology teams.
• Demonstrated success in managing IT infrastructure, IT budgets, software development and systems architecture.
• Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, infrastructure management, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Experience driving digital transformation initiatives, leveraging cloud technologies, and implementing data-driven decision-making.
• Evidence of being problem/outcome rather than solution/output focused.
• A master’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies for software development/delivery.
• Fluent in English; outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Comfortable operating in a start-up working environment, with the ability to build trusted internal relationships.
• Is sensitive and responsive to individual and cultural differences, adjusting style to get the best from individuals.
• Maintains high standards in dealing with people, is a role model and leads teams and individual performance in a consistent and professional manner.
• Ensures sound commercial awareness applied to all solutions.

Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.

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