Associate Director

Senior AI Delivery Lead | Associate Director | Security & Justice

United Kingdom | Permanent | Leading Consultancy

Is your CV ready If so, and you are confident this is the role for you, make sure to apply asap.

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? xwzovoh

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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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