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About the Role

Join Deutsche Bank's Chief Strategy and Innovation Office as Director - Artificial Intelligence Portfolio & Acceleration. You will shape how Indra enables the Bank to realize its Artificial Intelligence strategy with pace, care, and scale. This role involves overseeing the Indra acceleration agenda, creating an integrated portfolio view, and connecting teams to ensure delivery activity translates into clear outcomes. You will support senior stakeholders with concise insight and practical recommendations on progress, risks, investment choices, and delivery trade-offs. Work with expert teams to reduce friction in the Artificial Intelligence path to production, strengthen reuse and shared services, and support the safe growth of enterprise Artificial Intelligence capability.

Responsibilities

Shape and maintain the enterprise-wide Indra acceleration plan, integrating activity from Indra workstreams and cross-Bank teams to support faster Artificial Intelligence delivery from idea to production.
Identify blockers across the Artificial Intelligence lifecycle, including technology constraints, control approvals, data access, third-party risk management, platform readiness, engineering capacity, resourcing, and dependencies.
Translate acceleration opportunities into clear plans with shared owners, outcomes, milestones, measures, and escalation routes, supporting teams to turn insight into practical delivery progress.
Create and maintain an integrated view of the Indra delivery portfolio, covering strategic initiatives, platforms, shared services, operating model components, controls, innovation investments, and delivery programmes.
Develop concise executive narratives, decision papers, and reporting to help senior stakeholders understand changes, key issues, blockers, and choices requiring attention.
Support the Indra capability roadmap, collaborating with Artificial Intelligence Platforms, shared services, innovation, safety, demand, and commercial delivery teams to encourage reuse, standardization, and scale.

Requirements

Proven experience guiding complex technology, digital, Artificial Intelligence, or enterprise transformation programmes in financial services or a similarly regulated environment.
Strong background in strategy execution, portfolio management, programme acceleration, or major programme oversight, ideally with exposure to consulting, transformation, or large-scale delivery environments.
Experience supporting portfolio, programme management office, or programme control capabilities, focusing on insight, value, shared understanding, and clear action.
Skilled at connecting with senior stakeholders, risk and control partners, and technology delivery teams, with the ability to translate delivery constraints into practical recommendations.
Strong knowledge of Artificial Intelligence delivery, technology platforms, data, operating models, and considerations for moving use cases safely into production.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a structured, considerate approach to planning, dependency management, portfolio governance, and executive-level materials.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Portfolio Management
Programme Acceleration
Strategy Execution
Technology Transformation
Financial Services
Risk Management
Data Management
Communication
Interpersonal Skills
Stakeholder Management

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Benefits

Competitive salary
Non-contributory pension
30 days' holiday plus bank holidays
Option to purchase additional days' holiday
Life Assurance
Private Healthcare
Retail Discounts
Bike4Work scheme
Gym benefits
Opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme
2 days' volunteering leave per year

About the Company

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network.
Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.
For over 150 years, our dedication to being the Global Hausbank for our clients has been driven by our people – in around 60 countries and across more than 150 nationalities.
Their deep understanding, insights, expertise, and passion help our clients navigate an increasingly complex world – be it in our Corporate Bank, our Private Bank, our Investment Bank or our Asset Management (DWS) division.
Together we can make a great impact for our clients at home and abroad, securing their lasting success and financial security.
More information at: Deutsche Bank Careers (db.com)

Equal Opportunity

We value diversity and as an equal opportunities employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.