Enablement Director – Data & AI
Location – Dublin, Leeds or London
Hybrid
Permanent
We’re looking for a Enablement Director – Data & AI to join us at Flutter.
Flutter UK&I is evolving its technology foundations to support long-term growth, innovation, and operational excellence. At the heart of this evolution is Enablement 2.0 — reimagining core technology capabilities as long-lived product organisations that power our customer-facing tribes (Sports, Customer, Gaming) and provide critical services across the region and group. This role will be part of the Enablement SuperTribe leadership team.
As the Enablement Director – Data & AI, reporting to the MD of Enablement, you will play a pivotal role in this transformation. You will be responsible for creating a world-class engineering environment by leading our Data, and AI Platform functions. Your mission is to deliver the next-generation Data and AI platforms that enables our Product Development teams and the wider business to accelerate the delivery of capabilities to our customers.
What you’ll do
As a key member of the Enablement Leadership Team, you will provide the vision, strategy, and leadership for our core product enablement domains. This includes;
Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy for the Data Platform, AI Platform
Build and lead distributed, multi-disciplinary teams that design, deliver, and operate internal products with a focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and engineering productivity.
Partner with leaders across Product and Engineering in a "two-in-a-box" model to ensure your platform roadmaps align with business priorities.
Drive the vision and delivery of the next-generation AI platform to unlock new business capabilities and supercharge the business.
Champion a "platform-as-a-product" approach, focused on delivering capabilities that are leveraged across the organisation.
Drive key technical and architectural decisions for the data, AI, and developer experience landscapes.
Own the budget, workforce planning, and supplier management for your domains.
Actively contribute to the Enablement Leadership Team, shaping the evolution of our strategy, operating model, and culture.
How you’ll do it
Proven Technology Leader: A significant track record at a senior level leading Data, AI, and Platform Engineering functions in a complex, fast-paced tech environment.
Strategic Programme Delivery: Strong experience leading Data and AI initiatives and a proven ability to deliver key strategic programmes in this area from concept to value realisation.
Technical Depth: Deep expertise in modern data platforms, data engineering, AI/ML enablement, cloud technologies, and developer experience principles.
Platform Experience: You have successfully built and scaled central technology platforms, ideally shifting teams from a project to a product-oriented operating model.
Strategic Thinker: You can create a compelling vision that connects business needs with technology solutions and execute against it.
Exceptional People Leader: You are passionate about developing talent and have a proven ability to attract, retain, and grow top engineers and leaders in a distributed model.
Highly Collaborative: You build trust and influence at all levels and have a proven ability to work effectively in matrixed environments, particularly in a "two-in-a-box" product and engineering structure.
What’s in it for you
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all, you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:
Bonus scheme
Flexible holiday allowance!
Enhanced pension scheme
Private healthcare
Life assurance
Income protection
£1,000 annual self-development learning fund
Invest via the Flutter Sharesave Scheme
Enhanced parental leave
About Flutter
We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market-leading position in the US and across the world.
We have an unparalleled portfolio of innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.
With our global scale and challenger attitude, we excite and entertain our customers in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power—the Flutter Edge—we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to build a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.
We’re committed to being an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. You don’t need to meet every requirement listed to be considered.
If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.