AI Engineering & Consulting Lead

AI Engineering \& Consulting Lead

📍 Remote, UK | Permanent - Travel as required

AI isn't the future. It's the present. The challenge is turning AI ambition into real-world business outcomes.

That's where you come in.

We're looking for an experienced AI Engineering \& Consulting Lead to shape, grow and lead a high-impact AI capability. This is a rare opportunity to sit at the crossroads of AI engineering, consulting, commercial growth, and technical leadership.

You'll be equally comfortable

✅ Advising C-suite stakeholders on AI strategy and business value

✅ Designing and challenging complex AI architectures

✅ Leading teams delivering production-grade AI solutions

✅ Helping grow a thriving AI practice

What makes this role different?

This isn't about building AI demos that never leave the lab.

We're focused on Applied AI

🔹 Generative AI

🔹 Agentic \& Multi-Agent Systems

🔹 Predictive AI

🔹 Intelligent Workflow Automation

You'll help clients move from idea and experimentation to secure, governed, production-scale AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.

What you'll do

As a senior leader, you'll

🔹 Lead AI discovery workshops, client engagements and strategic conversations

🔹 Shape winning proposals and commercially viable solutions

🔹 Provide technical leadership across modern AI technologies, architectures and platforms

🔹 Stay hands-on with selected client projects and remain close to delivery

🔹 Drive engineering excellence across MLOps, LLMOps, testing, security, governance and AI evaluation

🔹 Mentor and develop talented AI engineers and technical specialists

🔹 Partner with sales and pre-sales teams to build pipeline and win new opportunities

🔹 Turn successful client solutions into repeatable propositions, accelerators and intellectual property

🔹 Help shape the future direction and growth of the AI capability

What we're looking for

You'll likely already be

✔ Leading an AI capability, practice, or centre of excellence

OR

✔ A Principal, Lead or Director-level AI professional ready for your next career-defining challenge

You'll bring

✅ Deep expertise in LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, vector databases, embeddings and AI evaluation

✅ Proven experience taking AI solutions from prototype to production

✅ Strong software engineering and cloud platform experience

✅ MLOps/LLMOps expertise

✅ Strong consulting and client-facing skills

✅ Commercial awareness and experience supporting pre-sales activities

✅ A passion for building teams, capabilities and market-leading AI solutions

Who thrives here?

You'll love this role if you

💡 Think like an entrepreneur

🚀 Enjoy building rather than maintaining

🔬 Love experimenting with emerging technologies

🎯 Focus on outcomes, not hype

🤝 Can move seamlessly between commercial conversations and deep technical discussions

Why join?

This is an opportunity to play a genuinely influential role in a business where AI is central to future growth.

You'll have the chance to

✅ Shape the AI strategy and offering

✅ Grow and lead a high-performing team

✅ Influence how work is sold, delivered and scaled

✅ Stay close to emerging AI technologies

✅ Build something meaningful with significant backing and support

If you're excited by the idea of leading the next generation of enterprise AI solutions while growing a high-impact consulting capability, we'd love to hear from you.

📩 Interested? Apply now or contact us for a confidential conversation.