Forward Deployed AI Engineer, CBS - Associate Director (Level 4) - UK Wide

EY; Reading; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our dynamic team in the UK. This hands-on role includes leadership responsibilities, designing and building AI agents and automation tools, and providing technical oversight across projects.

You will shape new work, guide junior team members, and ensure governance and security considerations are integrated from the start.

Qualifications

• We are seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our dynamic team.
• This is a hands-on role with a leadership element.
• You will design and build AI agents and automation tools yourself, while providing technical oversight across projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agents and automation tools to solve complex problems and improve business processes.
• Design AI solutions across multiple projects and portfolios, including orchestration layers and scalable, reusable solutions.
• Decide between, and build with, both low-code and pro-code approaches.
• Design cloud native solutions as the platform for AI solutions, and integrate new AI offerings.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of projects and of the work of others, alongside building yourself.
• Set engineering standards and review the code and solutions produced by the team.
• Shape and scope new demand as it comes in, translating business problems into deliverable technical scope with an assessment of effort and feasibility.
• Own governance and set-up end to end, including AI risk assessment, information security, data loss prevention,

Job description

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Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Core Business Services - Assistant Director/Manager level

Location - any UK office

Permanent

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our dynamic team. This is a hands-on role with a leadership element. You will design and build AI agents and automation tools yourself, while providing technical oversight and quality assurance across projects, shaping new work as it comes in, and supporting more junior members of the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agents and automation tools to solve complex problems and improve business processes.


• Design AI solutions across multiple projects and portfolios, including orchestration layers and scalable, reusable solutions.


• Decide between, and build with, both low-code and pro-code approaches.


• Design cloud native solutions as the platform for AI solutions, and integrate new AI offerings.


• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of projects and of the work of others, alongside building yourself.


• Set engineering standards and review the code and solutions produced by the team.


• Shape and scope new demand as it comes in, translating business problems into deliverable technical scope with an assessment of effort and feasibility.


• Own governance and set-up end to end, including AI risk assessment, information security, data loss prevention,