CTO – AI Business Solutions

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Kainos’ AI Business Solutions Practice helps organisations transform how they operate using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Microsoft’s AI platform, with Copilot, Copilot Studio and Azure AI.

As the practice enters its next phase of growth, AI-first delivery is becoming foundational to how solutions are designed, delivered and scaled. We are appointing a CTO (AI Business Solutions) to lead the technology and AI direction of the practice.

This is a senior technology leadership role within AI Business Solutions. You will own and evolve the technical strategy across Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Microsoft AI, ensuring our solutions are secure, scalable and commercially differentiated. You will act as a senior technology voice with customers, Microsoft and partners, translating Microsoft’s AI roadmap into repeatable, outcome-led offerings that drive growth.

Operating at practice and portfolio level, you will work with senior architects and technical leaders to maintain strong engineering discipline, while focusing your own time on strategic direction, executive engagement and Microsoft ecosystem leadership.

As a member of the practice leadership team, you will shape the technology dimension of our growth strategy, ensuring capability investment, technical differentiation and AI-first design materially increase win rates, market credibility and scalable margin.

• Own and evolve the technology and AI strategy for the AI Business Solutions practice, spanning Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, Copilot Studio and Azure AI
• Define the long-term technology roadmap for the practice, ensuring sustained relevance across industry priorities and Microsoft’s evolving AI platform
• Define how AI-augmented workflows, copilots and agent-based patterns are designed, governed and scaled across customer solutions
• Establish architectural and AI design principles that ensure solutions are secure, compliant and aligned with Microsoft best practice
• Align capability investment and technical roadmap to practice growth priorities and Microsoft ecosystem strategy
• Guide structured evaluation of emerging Dynamics, Power Platform and Microsoft AI capabilities and determine how they are incorporated into standard solution patterns and offerings

• Act as a senior adviser to executive customers on AI-enabled Business Applications transformation
• Engage at C-suite level to shape technology-led transformation agendas and position Kainos as a strategic Microsoft partner
• Partner with Sales and Practice leadership to shape and influence flagship pursuits and strategically significant bids
• Build senior relationships across Microsoft field and engineering teams, contributing to roadmap discussions, co-sell strategy and joint customer engagement
• Represent Kainos externally as a credible Microsoft AI and Business Applications leader

• Provide technology leadership across strategically important bids and flagship pursuits
• Own and evolve technical governance across the practice, including architectural review processes, quality gates and engineering standards
• Provide oversight and escalation support on high-impact or technically complex programmes
• Ensure consistent application of best practice across delivery teams

• Lead the practice’s AI-first narrative, ensuring Copilot and agent-based capabilities are embedded into repeatable, product-like offerings
• Partner with practice…