AI Engineer, Manager, Digital Innovation

Salary: £95,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in full-stack software or ML engineering with strong Python development practices, including CI/CD, testing, multithreading or asynchronous execution, and PEP8 standards
• Experience designing, testing, and deploying production-scale AI/ML solutions, including APIs, microservices, cloud deployment, endpoint deployment, registries, and pipelines
• Experience with LLM-based applications such as NLP, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, Graph RAG, and fine-tuning
• Proficiency with ML tools and the modern ecosystem, including PyTorch, MLflow, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy
• Experience retrieving data from structured, unstructured, and web sources, including Selenium, Playwright, Pandas, and XML
• Experience with Azure, including Azure Fabric, Data Factory, and integrated services such as ML Studio, Foundry, Synapse, and Cosmos
• Awareness of advances in the AI ecosystem and eagerness to explore, develop, and deploy cutting-edge solutions
• Experience leading end-to-end data client projects from proof of concept through to production and cloud environments
• Evidence of deploying GenAI or ML models in production systems with a strong grasp of data engineering lifecycles, MLOps, and LLMOps
• Desirable experience with other cloud provider ML and LLM services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and boto3
• Desirable experience with image analysis and extraction tools such as Google Cloud Vision, Document Intelligence, and MarkItDown
• Desirable knowledge of agentic protocols and their implementation, including MCP, ACP, and A2A
• Desirable experience building Azure-native RAG and vector search solutions
• Relevant certifications such as AI-102 or DP-100 are desirable

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with our Tax and Legal SMEs to understand business and client challenges and document detailed project requirements
• Support the design, development, documentation, and technical delivery of advanced analytics, automation, and AI solutions that streamline repetitive business tasks
• Process, clean, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis, and source additional data where needed
• Analyse complex datasets using a variety of techniques and present results clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support our data science team in building and maintaining code in-house and in the cloud
• Proactively develop novel AI engineering and automation solutions aligned with business requirements and project pipelines
• Take data science solutions from proof of concept through to full production systems
• Create, monitor, and troubleshoot APIs
• Work collaboratively with the business and our team

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Fabric
• FastAPI
• Fine-tuning
• Support
• LLM
• MCP
• MLflow
• MLOps
• Playwright
• PyTorch
• Python
• RAG
• Selenium
• Web
• XML
• microservices
• pandas
• API
• SQL

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We are Deloittes Tax Digital Innovation team within our Tax & Legal business, based in London with hybrid working. Our Data and AI Studio is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary team of industry, tax and legal SMEs, technology specialists, and data specialists, focused on researching, building, and delivering analytics and AI-driven solutions for clients and internal projects. We offer the opportunity to work on high-profile, innovative projects in a proactive, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment, with flexible working, strong development support, and a culture built around inclusion, integrity, teamwork, and measurable impact. We also support returners to the workplace after a career break.

last updated 34 week of 2026