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Deloitte’s AI & Data Financial Services team is at the forefront of transforming the financial service industry by empowering clients to harness cutting-edge AI solutions and data analysis and management programmes. As part of this team, practitioners are instrumental in design, developing innovative solutions that address real-world challenges and unlock new opportunities for financial services organisations. This involves close collaboration with stakeholders, building robust pipelines, and continuously advancing expertise in AI to drive continuous growth and innovation, from initial strategy to implementations to optimisation.

This work directly supports the diverse needs of the entire financial services industry. The AI & Data team's capabilities are crucial in optimising and transforming core operations across various segments, including banking, insurance, capital markets, and investment and wealth management. By applying deep industry experience and AI expertise, the team helps financial services clients solve complex operational, technical, and regulatory problems. This enables them to re-engineer processes, enhance customer experiences, drive growth, and create lasting value across their entire business, thereby shaping the future of finance through intelligent automation and data-driven insights.

The team's comprehensive approach extends beyond specific sub-sectors, enabling financial services clients to achieve significant advancements in areas such as risk management, fraud detection, customer engagement, and operational efficiency. By integrating advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, Deloitte helps organisations not only navigate the complexities of a rapidly evolving market but also gain a competitive edge. This involves leveraging data to inform strategic decisions, automate intricate processes, and ensure compliance with ever-changing regulatory landscapes, ultimately positioning clients to innovate and thrive in the digital age.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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As a Lead AI Engineer, your role will be to own the AI engineering strategy, supporting our Capital Markets clients to design, implement and operate scalable AI solutions across their businesses, playing a critical role in designing, implementing, and integrating AI solutions with existing systems.

As an Associate Director, you will be an exceptional communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with ease. You will have a strong ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team environment, leveraging the strengths of others to achieve common goals, and you will be outcome focussed and have a desire to be pragmatic in your approach to designing and delivering high-quality solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Translating the vision of senior client stakeholders into a delivery and implementation roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and digital transformation efforts. At the same time, providing recommendations on the suitability of AI/ML initiatives and use cases for scaling across our client organisations.
• Designing, recommending, and implementing end-to-end AI solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing client systems.
• Collaborating with Enterprise, Application, Data, and DevOps Architects, Data Scientists, MLOps and GenAI Architects, and Business teams to pilot use cases and discuss engineering design and implementation.
• Selecting appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing tools.
• Being responsible for the successful execution and operational improvement of AI-powered applications using agile methodology.
• Working closely with security and risk leaders to foresee and mitigate risks, ensuring ethical AI implementation and compliance with upcoming regulations.
• Developing and maintaining contact with top decision makers, lead proposal development, and contribute to pricing strategies.
• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution and developing the capability of junior team members through ‘on the job’ training and formal development programmes.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

As an Associate Director, you will need to:

• Have software/data engineering with a focus on applied AI engineering, using Python and SQL (ML engineering experience preferred).
• Demonstrate experience across the Financial Services industry, with a primary focus on the Capital Markets sector.
• Have experience designing Agentic AI solutions, managing and sequencing scope, estimating the build effort and dependencies, and thinking commercially about AI systems to estimate or measure return on investment.
• Have exposure to software delivery methodologies and tooling - Agile/SaFe, Extreme Programming, Jira, Confluence, Linear, Monday.
• Demonstrate experience of LLM fundamentals: prompt engineering, fine-tuning, embedding models and RAG patterns.
• Demonstrate experience working with at least 1 vector database product (e.g. Pinecone), experience working with an agent framework (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, Agent Development Kit), and experience using MCP.
• Be knowledgeable in designing and building evaluation frameworks for agentic systems and comfortable building API-enabled backend services (e.g. FastAPI).
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of modern data architectures, and be able to proactively identify technical and delivery risks.
• Be comfortable using common CI/CD tooling, including setting up CI/CD pipelines for ML Engineering or Agent Development.
• Demonstrate MLOps or LLMOps knowledge and experience.
• Demonstrate experience working with at least 1 hyperscaler stack, cloud certifications preferred (AWS, Azure, GCP, or Databricks).
• Demonstrate senior stakeholder management skills and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Show and ability to bring teams together and lead technical programmes to drive success through applying coaching, facilitation, stakeholder management and expectation management capabilities.
• Have strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the capability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Be able to lead ‘go-to-market’ activities such as bids, responding to requests for proposal, and on developing high-quality proposal materials.

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Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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