AI Engineer, Manager, Digital Innovation

Deloitte (UK); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte’s Tax Digital Innovation team seeks an AI Engineer Manager in the Data and AI Studio in London. You’ll lead robust AI-enabled product engineering, turning ideas into secure, scalable solutions, combining technical delivery with leadership across AI, software and cloud engineering.

You’ll partner with tax, legal and technology specialists to define outcomes, lead production delivery and grow the technical capability while mentoring teammates and driving responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Strong software or machine learning engineering experience with hands-on Python development.
• Experience designing, testing and deploying production AI/ML solutions using APIs, microservices and cloud services.
• Practical experience with large language models, embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Proficiency with modern ML/AI toolkit (PyTorch, MLflow, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy).
• Experience acquiring and processing data from structured and unstructured sources.
• Experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure or other cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering of AI-enabled products from discovery to production.
• Define outcomes with stakeholders and translate into technical requirements.
• Establish reliable data foundations and ensure data quality and lineage.
• Evaluate model and solution performance and communicate insights clearly.

Skills

Python development

APIs & microservices

ML/DL engineering

CI/CD & testing

Cloud services

Data engineering

Analytics & AI delivery

Tools

PyTorch

MLflow

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Job description

Deloitte’s Tax Digital Innovation team brings together tax, legal, technology, data and industry expertise to develop new ways of solving complex business challenges. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary environment, applying AI and data science to a varied portfolio of client-facing and internal initiatives that create measurable value.

As an AI Engineer at Manager level in our Data and AI Studio, you’ll lead the engineering of robust AI-enabled products and help turn ideas and prototypes into secure, scalable solutions. You’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with delivery leadership, collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to translate needs into practical outcomes. The role offers breadth across AI, software and cloud engineering, analytics and automation, with opportunities to learn and shape emerging approaches.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients’ become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

Our Tax and Legal Digital Innovation team is expanding its data and artificial intelligence capabilities. The Data and AI Studio researches, builds and delivers analytics and AI-enabled solutions that improve how we serve clients and operate our business. As a Manager, you’ll help identify valuable opportunities, lead delivery from discovery through to production and contribute to the continued development of our technical capability.

You’ll join a collaborative team that values curiosity, responsible innovation and continuous learning. You’ll have opportunities to work on complex, high-impact assignments, broaden your experience and support colleagues’ development. We welcome conversations about formal and informal flexible working arrangements that help our people and clients achieve the best outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with tax, legal, industry and technology specialists to understand client and business needs, define outcomes and translate them into clear technical requirements.
• Lead the design, development, documentation and technical delivery of analytics, automation and AI solutions that improve efficiency, quality and decision-making.
• Establish reliable data foundations by sourcing, preparing and validating structured and unstructured data, while addressing quality, lineage and integrity issues.
• Analyse complex datasets, evaluate solution performance and communicate insights and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Set and promote high engineering standards for maintainable code, testing, documentation, deployment and monitoring across local and cloud environments.
• Shape and assess new AI engineering and automation opportunities, balancing user value, technical feasibility, responsible AI considerations and delivery risk.
• Own the progression of AI and data science solutions from proof of concept to secure, scalable and supportable production services.
• Design, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot application programming interfaces (APIs) and related services, improving reliability and performance over time.
• Provide technical direction, constructive review and coaching to colleagues, while building trusted relationships and contributing to a collaborative, inclusive team.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Strong software or machine learning engineering experience, including hands-on Python development and sound practices in testing, coding standards, version control and continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience designing, testing and deploying production AI or machine learning solutions using components such as APIs, microservices, model registries, pipelines and cloud services.
• Practical experience developing applications using large language models, including approaches such as embeddings, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation and model adaptation.
• Proficiency with a modern machine learning and application engineering toolkit; experience may include PyTorch, MLflow, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy or comparable technologies.
• Experience acquiring and processing data from structured, unstructured and web-based sources using appropriate tools and methods.
• Experience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure, including relevant data, AI, integration and deployment services.
• Current knowledge of AI engineering developments and the judgement to evaluate where emerging techniques can be applied responsibly and effectively.
• Experience leading end-to-end technical delivery, from discovery and proof of concept through to production, including stakeholder management, planning and risk management.
• Experience deploying and operating generative AI or machine learning models in production, with an understanding of data engineering, machine learning operations and large language model operations lifecycles.
• Machine learning and large language model services from other cloud providers, or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Document and image analysis services, including tools for extracting, interpreting and structuring content.
• Agent-based AI architectures and interoperability protocols.
• Building Azure-native retrieval-augmented generation and vector search solutions.
• Relevant cloud, data or AI certifications, such as Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate or Azure Data Scientist Associate.

Connect to your business – Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Tax

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“At Deloitte you acquire a lot of knowledge – fast. It’s interesting work, often for household names.” - Erica, Tax and Legal

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers