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 & benefits

The Role

A 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.

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McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.