Senior Consultant/Manager, AI/ML Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About Baringa&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.</p> <p>The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.</p> <p>Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.</p> <p>Certified as a&nbsp;<em>Great Place to Work </em>around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the <em>Financial Times </em>in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by <em>Forbes </em>for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">Our Solutions &amp; AI Labs (SAIL) practice are looking for experienced AI/ML Engineers to join the team!</span></strong></span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}">The AI/ML Engineer role will lead the delivery of AI-enabled solutions embedded in our clients' teams, combining deep technical<strong> </strong></span><span data-contrast="none">specialism with the commercial and leadership skills to grow and shape our practice.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of client advisory, technical architecture and hands-on delivery leadership – and who has a genuine passion for bringing AI solutions to production at scale.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Our Solutions &amp; AI Labs (SAIL) practice focuses on helping clients control their data, turn it into actionable insights, and better leverage it&nbsp;through the use of&nbsp;AI and Machine Learning solutions directly embedded into business processes. We support clients across&nbsp;a number of&nbsp;industries and offer deep&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;in AI/ML, Cloud, Platform Engineering, and Managed Solutions.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">What you will be doing</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335559738":40}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As a Senior Consultant in SAIL, you will own and lead consultancy engagements end-to-end from shaping the opportunity and winning the work, through to delivery governance and team leadership. You will bring SME-level depth in at least one of AI/ML Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering, and apply it to create real, lasting value for our clients.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Although we do not expect you to be an expert in&nbsp;all of&nbsp;the below activities simultaneously, our team consists of people who can work as advisors to our clients as well as bringing deep technical knowledge when needed. The profile of our typical engagements reflects that.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">AI/ML Specialism</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335559738":40}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You will bring expert-level knowledge in at least one of the following domains, and working knowledge across the others:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Agentic AI &amp; LLM Engineering:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Design and build production-grade agentic systems using major LLM SDKs and agent frameworks; deep knowledge of RAG, MCP servers and prompt engineering at scale.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong opinions on secure, resilient enterprise deployment of LLM-powered systems; current knowledge of the latest model capabilities and AI product stacks.</span> &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Machine Learning Engineering:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">End-to-end ML lifecycle&nbsp;expertise: feature engineering, model training,&nbsp;evaluation&nbsp;and production deployment, including&nbsp;MLOps, monitoring and drift detection.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Practical knowledge of ML frameworks (e.g. scikit-learn,&nbsp;PyTorch,&nbsp;XGBoost) and cloud-native ML services (SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI).</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Software Engineering:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Production-grade Python services (FastAPI, AWS Lambda, event-driven patterns) and front-end development with React/Next.js, Material UI and SWR.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Cloud architecture design capability across major providers; rounded understanding of database trade-offs – relational, NoSQL,&nbsp;graph&nbsp;and caching strategies.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="o" data-font="Courier New" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":1080,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="2"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong engineering practices: CI/CD, testing (Jest, Cypress, React Test Library), release management and security-conscious development.</span> &nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="16" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">A genuine passion for AI solutions and specifically for the complexity of delivering them to production at scale. You should be as energised by the hard problems of operationalisation,&nbsp;reliability&nbsp;and governance as by the technology itself.<br></span> &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Your Skills and Experience</span></span></strong> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We're seeking a technically credible, commercially aware consultant who brings a rare combination of delivery accountability, client advisory skill, and deep AI/technology specialism. You will be someone energised by the complexity of taking AI solutions to production at scale – and who can inspire a team and a client with that same passion.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="0" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">1-5 years in technology consulting, software engineering or AI/ML<br></span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">SME-level depth in at least one of: Agentic AI/LLM Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering or Software Engineering – with strong architecture and design capability across cloud, data and AI domains.<br></span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Clear, confident communicator – able to make the complex accessible for technical and non-technical audiences alike, and to&nbsp;represent&nbsp;Baringa’s&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;with credibility.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><spa