Senior AI Engineer - Consulting

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions
St Paul's, City And County Of the City Of London, EC4M 9AD, United Kingdom
Last week
£70,000 pa

Salary

£70,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
18 May 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

Benefits Training Bonus Package

Senior AI Engineer - Consulting

Office location to choose from: Glasgow, London or Manchester

Hybrid Working - 1-2 days per week in the office

£70,000 + Benefits, Training & Bonus Package

Full Time | Permanent

Deerfoot Recruitment is supporting a leading global consultancy in the search for an AI Engineering Consultant / Senior Consultant to join its growing Data & AI practice. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced AI professional to help organisations design, build and scale enterprise-grade AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions.

The successful candidate will play a key role in bridging the gap between AI experimentation and real-world business adoption, delivering robust, scalable and responsible AI solutions across a range of high-profile client engagements.

Key responsibilities will include:

* Designing and implementing end-to-end AI/ML solutions from development through to deployment and monitoring

* Building scalable Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions, including RAG pipelines and orchestration frameworks

* Implementing MLOps frameworks, governance and best practices

* Translating business requirements into cloud-native AI and data architectures across Azure, AWS and GCP

* Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver measurable business value

* Supporting innovation initiatives, reusable assets, thought leadership and client proposals

Candidates should have strong experience in AI Engineering, MLOps and cloud-native AI platforms, alongside hands-on knowledge of technologies such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD tooling.

Applicants will ideally demonstrate:

* Experience working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry

* A strong consulting mindset with experience engaging senior stakeholders

* Proven experience designing and delivering AI/ML solutions at scale

* Strong understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI and modern AI engineering frameworks

* Experience with at least one major cloud platform including Azure, AWS or GCP

You need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years to be able to apply for this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking consultancy delivering innovative AI solutions for major enterprise clients, while benefiting from strong career progression, flexible hybrid working and an excellent package.

Senior AI Engineer / AI Engineering Consultant / Generative AI Consultant / Senior Machine Learning Engineer / AI & ML Consultant / MLOps Engineer / LLM Engineer / AI Engineering Consultant / Senior AI Engineer / Generative AI Engineer / AI Solutions Architect / Data & AI Consultant / AI Solutions Consultant / Cloud AI Engineer / Applied AI Engineer

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn't right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

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