Lead AI & Data Scientist
Lead AI & Data Scientist Global Professional Services Firm Location: London Working: Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days remote) Salary: Up to £140k + bonus & benefitsThe RoleA senior leadership opportunity within a global professional services organisation investing heavily in Data & AI.You'll play a key role in shaping and delivering the firm's AI roadmap, working closely with senior stakeholders to identify high-value use cases and take them from concept through to production.This is a hands-on leadership role combining Data Science, GenAI, Solution Architecture and stakeholder engagement, focused on delivering AI-powered solutions that drive measurable business impact.Key Responsibilities
- Define the technical strategy for Data & AI initiatives across the business
- Lead the design and delivery of GenAI, NLP, Machine Learning and RAGbased solutions
- Translate complex business challenges into scalable AI products and capabilities
- Own architecture patterns covering orchestration, retrieval, monitoring, evaluation and governance
- Deliver AI use cases across document intelligence, knowledge search, workflow automation and AI assistants
- Partner with business, product and engineering teams to embed AI into core processes
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and thirdparty vendors
- Establish best practice around Responsible AI, model evaluation and production deployment
- Mentor Data Scientists and provide technical leadership across delivery teams
Key Requirements
- Proven experience leading Data Science, Machine Learning or GenAI initiatives within complex organisations
- Experience building and deploying LLMpowered applications
- Strong knowledge of RAG, embeddings, vector databases and retrieval architectures
- Experience with Azure, Databricks and modern cloudbased AI platforms
- Track record delivering AI solutions into production environments
- Experience defining governance, monitoring and Responsible AI controls
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience delivering AI solutions across documentheavy environments, particularly legal services, would be advantageous
This is an opportunity to shape how AI is adopted across a global organisation and play a leading role in moving innovative AI solutions from concept to enterprise-scale deployment.No sponsorship available.Get in touch for more details -
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.