Forward-Deployed AI Engineer | Lead AI & Automation

EY; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EY seeks an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Assistant Director/Manager level to join our Core Business Services. This permanent role is location-flexible to any UK office and combines hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities.

You will design and build AI agents and automation tools, oversee project quality, and shape new work while guiding junior team members. You will balance low-code and pro-code approaches and ensure robust governance and security practices.

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

EY seeks an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Assistant Director/Manager level to join our Core Business Services. This permanent role is location-flexible to any UK office and combines hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities.

You will design and build AI agents and automation tools, oversee project quality, and shape new work while guiding junior team members. You will balance low-code and pro-code approaches and ensure robust governance and security practices.