Associate Director

Associate Director focuses on are you an ai engineer who's tired of being the person who "advises" on ai — and actually wants to build it?.

What the role involves

• 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.
• Building robust MLOps/LLMOps pipelines — CI/CD, model monitoring, evaluation frameworks, observability.

Skills and requirements

• Deliver, not just advise.
• ️ High-stakes, meaningful work — the kind where your systems actually matter.

Confirmed role details

• United Kingdom | Permanent | Leading Consultancy.
• Domain experience in Security & Justice is a bonus — not a prerequisite.
• Joining at a moment of significant AI scale-up.
• Senior exposure — direct engagement with client leadership from day one.

Additional role context

• 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).
• Making the call on when AI is the right answer — and when a simpler solution is better.