United Kingdom · Relocate · Sponsor · Work in your hoursLondon
London holds Europe's deepest AI + fintech capital pool, yet post-Brexit sponsor caps have made senior hires slow and dear. The binding constraint isn't talent — it's leaders who ship fast and keep the team intact. That is precisely the gap Fauzul closes. His own reason for choosing it is the same density read from the other side: London is where frontier AI is both built and used, so one seat there reaches a wider range of businesses, domains and unfamiliar problems than anywhere else he could sit — which is the forward-deployed shape of work he wants rather than a single-product role. A sister already living there makes the move real rather than aspirational.
What your team owns to relocate Fauzul to London
On the recommended Global Talent route there is no sponsor licence and no Certificate of Sponsorship to issue — endorsement is evidence-based and Fauzul owns the dossier. A licence and CoS only enter the picture if you fall back to the Skilled Worker route.
Confirm the role band clears the SOC 2134 going rate, then have the licence team assign the Certificate of Sponsorship.
Right-to-work checks and — on Skilled Worker — the CoS mechanics and Immigration Skills Charge handling. Nothing to file for Global Talent.
Documents, evidence pack and the applicant side of the filing, turned around same-week once the Certificate of Sponsorship is assigned.
Relocation support to line up
- →eVisa / BRP activation on arrival and a National Insurance number registration
- →A pointer to initial housing and help opening a UK bank account
- →No language ramp and no timezone shift — he is already in UK hours
Family & dependants
Partner and children join as dependants, and the partner has unrestricted UK work rights.
What trips sponsorship up
- ✕Coding the role under the wrong SOC and setting salary below the going rate
- ✕Assuming a sponsor licence takes months to obtain — a first application is typically weeks, and it is the gating item for everything downstream
- ✕Pricing the role below the SOC 2134 going rate, which invalidates the Certificate of Sponsorship no matter how strong the candidate is
Fauzul has family in the UK and treats London as a relocate-first move, not a remote arrangement — he works UK hours from day one and lands the moment the visa clears.
The numbers that make the London case before a single interview.
What lands in the first quarter
- →Ship payments-grade infrastructure without the burn — 4x TTM (75% reduction in cycle time) while scaling to 22 engineers remote-first.
- →Stand up LLM/RAG product surfaces (NewScriber, TagRamp) that survive enterprise scrutiny.
- →Lead while coding: an EM who still ships production PRs daily — the archetype London underpays for.
Where the demand is
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Series A→C teams scaling payments infra. ELO's 4x TTM (75% reduction in cycle time) track plus remote-first scaling to 22 engineers (+50% productivity) is exactly the velocity-without-burn profile they hire.
AI products need engineers who sit with customers. 8 yrs of EU client delivery + LLM/RAG production builds (NewScriber, TagRamp) maps directly.
EM/coder hybrids in short supply. Fauzul leads while writing production code daily — fits the rare archetype.
2-3 days/week, 3 mo minimum. Pre-Brexit talent thinning makes fractional senior eng the bridge to permanent CTO hires.
Pick the route — and we file
Two doors into United Kingdom. The recommended one is built for Fauzul's profile; the alternative is there if speed or an accredited employer favours it.
Skilled Worker visa (SOC 2134), company-sponsored
The preferred UK route. The employer holds the sponsor licence and assigns a Certificate of Sponsorship; qualification is experience-based, with the SOC 2134 going rate as the binding salary floor in 2026.
- Salary floor
- £49,400 going rate · £41,700 baseline
- Processing
- 3 wk standard · 5 working days priority
- Working hours
- London business hours (09:00–18:00 GMT/BST)
UK Global Talent (Digital Technology)
Researched and under consideration, not in progress. Endorsement runs through Tech Nation, which resumed digital-technology endorsements in 2024. At nine years he would apply under Exceptional Talent rather than Exceptional Promise, which is capped at five years of experience, so the bar is recognised leading talent plus letters from senior figures in the field. No degree requirement; the route is evidence-based.
Choose this if speed or an accredited employer favours it.
Clears the floor — with room to spare
See it at a glance, then drag the bar to test any offer against the United Kingdom floor.
Fauzul's band starts +92% above the government floor — it clears with room to spare.
Every objection, answered up front
Each card is tagged with who acts — so both sides see exactly their part.
Tick your way to filing-ready
Hire one operator who closes the senior-leadership gap on a route your licence team already knows: Skilled Worker under SOC 2134, experience-based, no degree gating.
Fauzul's side — done in 24h
- ✓CV + 9 yrs work history
- ✓Reference contacts (ELO co-founders + UK client leads)
- ✓Passport scan + cert pack (CSPO, Google AI Agents, Angular)
- ✓Evidence pack if the Global Talent route is ever taken: shipped products, open source, public writing
- ✓Salary expectation memo at the role band
Your side — tick what you already have
- Sponsor Licence number (if Skilled Worker route)
- Defined Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) template
- Salary attestation at SOC 2134 going rate (£49,400+)
- Job description aligned to SOC code
- Right-to-Work / pre-employment check workflow
Employers in London who already sponsor engineers this exact way — study how they hire, or approach them directly. These are worked examples to learn from, not Fauzul's current filings:
Intro call to onsite — United Kingdom rules only
- Day 0–2Intro call & alignment
30-min call. You name the London role band and sponsor appetite; Fauzul names compensation and confirms the Skilled Worker visa (SOC 2134), company-sponsored route. Agree, and the hire bundle ships within 24 hours.
- Day 3–7Hire bundle delivered
One shared folder — CV, certificates, references, passport, salary memo, and a United Kingdom-specific Skilled Worker visa (SOC 2134), company-sponsored pathway memo with the exact form numbers and your sponsor-side checklist pre-filled.
- Day 8–14Offer + start in London hours
Counter-signed offer. Fauzul starts immediately in London business hours (09:00–18:00 GMT/BST) — first standup, first PR, no downtime on your roadmap while the visa runs.
- FilingSkilled Worker visa (SOC 2134), company-sponsored filed & granted
The preferred UK route. The employer holds the sponsor licence and assigns a Certificate of Sponsorship; qualification is experience-based, with the SOC 2134 going rate as the binding salary floor in 2026. Processing runs 3 wk standard · 5 working days priority. Alternative: UK Global Talent (Digital Technology).
- OnsiteRelocation & onsite ramp
Travel booked the moment the permit lands. First two weeks in London is ride-along — every standup, every coffee, every customer call. By month four: two features shipped, the team knows him by first name.
Rules verified June 2026 against 4 official + specialist sources: gov.uk Skilled Worker · gov.uk Global Talent · Tech Nation endorsement · Davidson Morris 2026 review.
Start the London conversation
Ask the ambassador anything about this route — it has London's full pathway, both sides, every hurdle, and the United Kingdom-only timeline loaded.