Principal Consultant – Artificial Intelligence

Your mission

Building on our success in delivering high-impact agile and devops projects, we aim to widen our services to include artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. The company is therefore looking for a senior consulting professional with AI expertise and a strong commercial focus. You will have the track record and the technical and commercial skill to originate and deliver complex AI projects that bring value to our customers, typically medium to large enterprises or similarly-sized public sector entities. You will be comfortable interacting with the CIOs of these organisations and have the management skills to deliver these projects successfully.

For the commercial aspect of the work, you will have the support of the company’s strong sales and marketing teams. You will be able to draft and disseminate marketing messages that fit with your perception of the market opportunities, and you will be able to draw on the sales team as required to make contact with appropriate prospective customers.

For project execution, you will be supported by a team of able consultants with strong technical skills in both AI and conventional IT and strong project management skills.

As a Principal Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our strategic engagements with enterprise and public sector customers. You will have the opportunity to interact often with senior management and influence the direction of the company

Your profile

Responsibilities and Duties

• Originate AI consultancy assignments within or adjacent to the company’s main areas of expertise
• Oversee the execution and delivery of these projects, ensuring they meet customers’ objectives and deliver measurable return on their investment
• Interact with our customers at all levels, up to and including strategic, CIO level
• Work with the sales and marketing teams to refine the company’s commercial and technical strategy as regards AI
• Oversee the further training and enablement of the company’s consultants in delivering practical AI solutions to customers
• Interact with the company’s partners, such as Atlassian, Snowflake, Databricks, Retool and AWS, and develop the partnerships which are most important to AI and your role. Where appropriate, this could include building new partnerships.

Qualifications and Skills
Essential

• A proven ability to originate and deliver complex AI consultancy projects that deliver measurable value to customers
• The ability to project-manage complex AI consultancy projects from inception to a successful conclusion
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to interact with customers at a senior level
• Leadership skills with experience in managing and motivating high performing teams

Nice to have

• Experience of consultancy projects in conventional IT fields such as devops, Agile and custom software development 
• Experience of using the software and systems of the AC partner companies Snowflake, Databricks, Retool and AWS.
• Experience of Atlassian software including familiarity with Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.

Why us?

Salary: £ competitive commensurate with experience 

We know that at Automation Consultants, our team members are the best in the industry, so we do everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team whose members learn from one another. We offer challenging projects within a supportive environment and believe that your skills should always be growing.

Benefits include:

• 25 days’ holiday (excluding bank holidays which are taken in addition)
• Private Healthcare
• Dental insurance
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans
• Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget
• Flexible working hours and environment
• Access to the Electric Car Scheme 
• Cycle to Work Scheme 
• Pension Scheme
• High spec. machine and access to virtual test lab
• Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
• Regular company-wide events, team social events, including Hackathons and competitions.

About us

Automation Consultants is a leading agile and DevOps consultancy with a complementary software arm. Our consultancy services dedicated to improving our customers’ business performance through digital and agile transformation and automation of software development processes. Our software, which is sold under the AppFox name, complements these services. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry-recognised automation solutions, software and managed services. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.