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Ben Clayton

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Director of Group Engineering at Just Group plc
📍 United Kingdom

Ben Clayton is the Director of Group Engineering at Just Group plc, an experienced technology leader specializing in modernizing legacy systems within regulated financial services. He focuses on setting group-wide tech strategy and delivering resilient change at scale. He holds a BSc (hons) from Lancaster University.

He has a unique focus on Context Engineering as the crucial next step for embedding AI within the software development lifecycle, moving beyond individual productivity gains.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Director of Group Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
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AI in Engineering
He is focused on embedding context-aware and agentic AI into team-level software development lifecycles, viewing it as the next major step beyond individual productivity tools.
Engineering Leadership
His career has focused on building and scaling multi-disciplinary engineering organizations, shaping the operating model, capability, and leadership depth required for growth.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Director of Group Engineering
Just Group plc
3-2024 - 3-2026
Head of Engineering - Retail
Just Group plc
7-2022 - 2-2024
Head of Software Engineering
Fairstone Group Ltd
5-2019 - 7-2022
Head of Software Engineering
RBC Brewin Dolphin
11-2015 - 5-2019
Application Development Team Lead
RBC Brewin Dolphin
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Education
2004 - 2007
BSC (hons)
Lancaster University
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