Job Description
🚀 Senior AI Delivery Lead | Associate Director | Security & Justice
📍 United Kingdom | Permanent | Leading Consultancy
Are you an AI engineer who's tired of being the person who "advises" on AI — and actually wants to build it?
We're hiring a Senior AI Delivery Lead at Associate Director level for a high-impact practice working across some of the UK's most complex public sector programmes. Think policing, defence, justice, and national security — environments where the bar for reliability, security, and responsible AI is about as high as it gets.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll be architecting and shipping production-grade AI systems, not producing slide decks about them.
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WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
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🔧 Technical Architecture
• Designing end-to-end LLM and RAG systems integrated into complex enterprise workflows
• Deploying and optimising models on AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and self-hosted GPU infrastructure (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama)
• Building robust MLOps/LLMOps pipelines — CI/CD, model monitoring, evaluation frameworks, observability
• Making the call on when AI is the right answer — and when a simpler solution is better
📦 Delivery
• Translating client requirements into technical roadmaps and shipping production-ready systems
• Moving AI from prototype to hardened, live service in high-security environments
• Proactively managing technical risk — security vulnerabilities, deployment bottlenecks, delivery timelines
👥 Leadership
• Leading cross-functional teams of data scientists and engineers
• Communicating complex AI concepts to senior non-technical stakeholders
• Mentoring and upskilling engineers, building a culture of engineering excellence
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WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
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✅ Expert Python — plus hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch, TensorFlow or equivalent
✅ Deep knowledge of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, vector databases, and generative architectures
✅ Production AI/ML delivery experience — real-world impact matters more than credentials
✅ Cloud-agnostic experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP
✅ Strong MLOps/LLMOps background — CI/CD for ML, governance, model monitoring
✅ Experience leading technical teams and managing senior stakeholder relationships
✅ Track record in a complex, regulated industry — healthcare, government, finance, defence, or similar
No minimum education requirement. A PhD, strong industry experience, or impressive open source contributions all count equally. What matters is shipped, production-grade AI.
Domain experience in Security & Justice is a bonus — not a prerequisite. A willingness to upskill in the sector is what counts.
Security Clearance may be required.
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WHY THIS ROLE?
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💡 Real ownership — architect and deliver, not just advise
🏛️ High-stakes, meaningful work — the kind where your systems actually matter
📈 Career trajectory — joining at a moment of significant AI scale-up
🤝 Senior exposure — direct engagement with client leadership from day one
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Interested or know someone who might be? Drop me a message or apply directly — all conversations are confidential.
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