Head of Delivery - AI & Transformation

Inference Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Inference Group, a London-based hybrid AI and data engineering consultancy, seeks a Head of Delivery to lead enterprise AI and data delivery for global clients. This senior role combines delivery leadership with strong commercial acumen, guiding multidisciplinary teams and shaping our AI consulting capability.

You will partner with senior stakeholders, drive delivery excellence, and mentor engineers and consultants to production-ready outcomes that deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex technology, AI or data delivery in consulting or professional services.
• Accountability for multiple client engagements, including budgets and risks.
• Practical understanding of enterprise AI adoption and value realization.
• Ability to work with architects and engineers without coding rote duties.
• Experience bringing structure and governance to growing delivery teams.
• Commercial judgment on estimates, resources and utilisation.
• Strong engagement with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI, data and transformation programmes with governance and client satisfaction.
• Develop scalable delivery processes and operating models as the business grows.
• Manage programme planning, dependencies, risks, timelines and resource allocation.
• Provide visibility on costs, delivery performance and financial outcomes.
• Lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams of AI/Data Engineers, Architects and Consultants.
• Shape and mature Inference Group’s AI delivery capability and governance.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Client engagement

Budget management

Governance

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Python

APIs

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

MDM

Job description

Inference Group is a fast-growing data and AI engineering business dedicated to helping organisations unlock their true potential through the transformative power of data, machine learning, and AI.

We work with customers worldwide to turn cutting-edge ideas into scalable, operational solutions that enhance human decision-making and drive sustainable growth. Built by a team of curious, passionate engineers and technologists, Inference Group combines deep technical expertise with a practical, delivery-focused mindset. As we grow, we’re looking for like-minded people who are excited by lifelong learning, eager to challenge existing ways of working, and motivated to make a real impact in an AI-driven world.

INFERENCE GROUP |LONDON, UK | HYBRID| PERMANENT

Salary: Up to £120,000 per annum

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Head of Delivery to lead the successful delivery of enterprise AI solutions for our clients, bringing together delivery excellence, technical understanding and commercial awareness.

This is a senior consulting leadership role combining a sound understanding of AI and enterprise technology with strong operational leadership, commercial awareness and client engagement. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to understand complex business challenges, guide scalable AI and data solutions, and lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver production-ready outcomes that create measurable business value.

You’ll play a key role in shaping our AI consulting capability, establishing delivery best practices, mentoring consultants and engineers, and supporting business growth through technical direction and trusted client relationships.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex delivery challenges, thrives in client-facing consulting environments, and is excited by the rapidly evolving world of AI.

Location: London-based hybrid working, with regular time alongside the team in the office and occasional travel to customer sites. Applicants must already reside in and have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we cannot offer visa sponsorship.

What You’ll Do

Delivery Leadership & Operational Excellence

• Own the end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI, data and transformation programmes, ensuring quality, sound governance and client satisfaction.
• Build scalable delivery processes, frameworks and ways of working as the business grows.
• Oversee programme planning, dependencies, risks, delivery timelines, resource allocation and capacity across client engagements.
• Bring visibility and accountability to project costing, budgets, delivery performance, financial outcomes and team utilisation.
• Establish practical operational structures, policies and governance, connecting delivery with the wider needs of the business.
• Lead, coach and develop multidisciplinary teams of AI Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects and Consultants, fostering collaboration, clarity and accountability.

AI Transformation & Technical Direction

• Help clients understand how AI can transform business processes, operating models and everyday workflows, moving beyond isolated use cases.
• Provide informed technical direction and challenge across AI, data and integration solutions, ensuring scalable, secure architectures aligned to business goals.
• Guide practical use of modern AI tooling, LLMs and agentic systems, including where AI can improve the way our own teams deliver.
• Oversee the integration of AI into existing enterprise platforms, data environments and business workflows.
• Champion responsible AI, security, data governance, engineering quality and fit-for-purpose delivery controls.
• Balance innovation with the cost, effort, risk, adoption and measurable value of new technologies.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and turn complex business challenges into achievable delivery strategies.
• Own robust delivery estimates, resource assumptions and implementation plans, ensuring commitments are both credible and commercially sound.
• Support pre-sales discovery, solution shaping, proposals and client presentations.
• Communicate clearly, manage expectations and challenge assumptions constructively when circumstances change.
• Help shape and grow Inference Group’s AI consulting capability through delivery excellence and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring

• A track record of leading complex technology, AI, data or digital transformation delivery within consulting or professional services.
• Experience taking accountability for several client engagements, including delivery quality, people, budgets, risks and operational performance.
• A strong practical understanding of enterprise AI: how organisations adopt it, where it adds value and what it takes to move solutions into everyday operations.
• The technical fluency to work confidently with architects and engineers, ask the right questions and make informed delivery decisions; you do not need to be the person writing every line of code.
• Experience bringing structure, governance and repeatable processes to a growing or changing business.
• Commercial judgement across estimates, delivery economics, resource planning and utilisation.
• Evidence of developing multidisciplinary teams and bringing people together around common goals.
• Clear, effective engagement with senior business and technology stakeholders, including the confidence to manage complex conversations.
• A collaborative leadership approach, combining strategic perspective with attention to the detail that makes delivery work.

Experience That Would Be An Advantage

• Leading programmes that embed AI, automation or intelligent agents into operational workflows.
• Familiarity with modern LLMs and AI tools such as Claude and OpenAI, and an informed perspective on their responsible use.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture, integration, Azure/cloud platforms, data engineering and governance.
• Understanding of technologies such as Python, APIs, Azure DevOps, MDM, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake or Microsoft Purview.
• Having helped establish or scale a consulting delivery capability.

What Success Looks Like

During your first 12 months, you can expect to:

• Establish a clear, consistent and high-quality delivery approach across client engagements.
• Successfully oversee enterprise AI and transformation programmes from discovery through production and adoption.
• Create greater operational visibility around resourcing, delivery performance, project costing and commercial outcomes.
• Become a trusted partner to clients and internal leadership.
• Build a high-performing, supported and accountable delivery team.
• Help clients progress from AI experimentation to meaningful adoption and measurable operational value.
• Contribute to commercial growth through reliable estimating, effective planning and strong client relationships.
• Help shape the next stage of Inference Group’s consulting practice.

A Note on Your Background

We believe great delivery leaders come from different paths. Whether you’ve grown through technology consulting, AI transformation, programme leadership or solution delivery, we’re interested in the breadth of experience you bring. You do not need to have personally built every technology you lead; what matters is understanding its potential, bringing the right people together and turning ambitious ideas into successful outcomes.

Working With Us

At Inference Group, we believe successful AI transformation is about far more than technology. It’s about helping people understand, trust, adopt, and scale new ways of working.

You’ll work alongside AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Leaders, and Consultants to help organisations realise value from AI in practice. We invest heavily in learning, experimentation, and emerging technologies, and we’re looking for people who are excited to help shape the future of AI adoption.

Our Values are:

• We Geek Out Loud: we excel in our data and AI domain, using our expertise to deliver solutions that realise value. We share our wisdom and experience proudly, no egos, just pure tech passion.
• We Act Boldly, and Collaborate Openly: we explore uncharted territories, working on the new to deliver operational solutions at scale. We don’t tread over old ground. We collaborate openly with full transparency, learning from each other as a community.
• We are the Connectors: we bridge the gaps between business value, data engineering, data science and deployment. Working seamlessly as one unified team internally and externally to deliver working solutions for our clients.
• We Empowerour Customers: we equip our clients with the skills and knowledge to fully leverage, scale and deploy data and AI solutions. We prioritise delivering operational success over prototypes and proof of concepts to provide long term value. We build trust.
• We Loveour Work: we are proud of the work we do and take ownership of it. We work on the things we love and care about, we work with passion with people we respect.
• We are Data Jedis: we work on hard problems and aim to deliver working solutions at scale. We don’t have time for politics, backbiting, gossiping, game playing or selfish behaviour. We work as one team with a mission to deliver and we will only achieve that together.

We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds and experiences. Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.