Senior Consultant Applied AI Engineer, TC FS

Senior Consultant Applied AI Engineer

You will work across a diverse portfolio of clients spanning Financial Services the Public Sector and the Private Sector. Our Applied AI Engineering teams deliver production-grade AI systems in regulated financial institutions as well as government health infrastructure consumer industrial and energy organisations. This cross-sector model gives you broad exposure to different regulatory environments data landscapes and operating models while building deep engineering capability that transfers across industries.

Location

London / Manchester / Birmingham / Edinburgh/ Belfast Hybrid with clientsite travel

Contract

Permanent fulltime

Why EY and why FS

Within EYs FS youll help leading banks insurers and capitalmarkets firms move from AI experimentation to reliable production adoption integrating systems with enterprise data security and governance. Youll be part of a growing engineering capability shaping AIenabled operating models for complex financial institutions.

Role purpose

Operate as a handson engineer within a squad taking ownership of defined components and delivering AI capabilities (e.g. agents RAG pipelines) that meet enterprise standards for reliability security and observability. Strengthen your foundations through the Applied AI Engineering Academy while taking on more responsibility for solution shaping and stakeholder engagement.

EY Grade: Senior Consultant (UK)

What youll do

Clientfacing engineering & delivery

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders; translate requirements into engineering tasks; support workshops demos and solution reviews; drive adoption through testing and iteration.

Solution design & implementation

• Design and implement RAG pipelines agents microservices and integrations; apply monitoring evaluation and Responsible AI guardrails.

Product mindset & continuous improvement

• Shape MVP scope backlog and release planning; capture reusable patterns and contribute to shared accelerators.

What were looking for

Essential

• Strong Python/TypeScript; async patterns; API design; testing/CI; microservice fundamentals.
• Handson LLMs embeddings vector databases; retrieval strategies and grounding.
• Cloud engineering (Azure preferred) Docker/Kubernetes serverless; secure networking/IAM.
• Data engineering fundamentals (Spark/Databricks; ETL/ELT) and operational handover.
• Consulting behaviours: stakeholder engagement and clear clientready communication.

Nice to have

• Document/graph stores; streaming (Event Hub/Kafka); cloud architecture exposure and governance credentials.

Travel & working model

Hybrid with periodic client travel across the UK (and occasional international travel).

What we offer you

At EY well develop you with futurefocused skills and equip you with worldclass experiences. Well empower you in a flexible environment and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

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