Head of Data Science – AI

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for data science and AI across Heathrow, aligned to business needs.
• Put clear AI governance, ethics and assurance arrangements in place.
• Ensure analytics services are reliable, secure and meet agreed service outcomes.
• Oversee investment, supplier arrangements and value tracking for AI and analytics.
• Build sustainable capability across data science, AI engineering and analytics.

Requirements

• Strong experience delivering data science or AI solutions at enterprise scale.
• Experience guiding teams that develop and deploy machine learning models.
• Practical knowledge of responsible AI, governance and regulatory expectations.
• Experience shaping strategy and turning insight into business outcomes.
• Experience using cloud platforms for analytics and AI workloads.
• Ability to explain technical ideas clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in complex operational environments.
• Familiarity with production-level model deployment and monitoring approaches.