Managing Consultant - AI Security & Assurance

PA Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave

Generous pension

Community involvement initiatives

Annual performance bonus

Tax efficient benefits

Job summary

PA Consulting is expanding its AI Security capability to help enterprise clients design, build, and deploy secure AI solutions in highly regulated environments. You will act as a trusted advisor and technical architect, guiding clients through risk and architecture decisions with pragmatic, senior stakeholder communication.

The role focuses on embedding security into the AI development lifecycle, addressing model validation, data pipeline security, and secure API integration while adapting to

Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of how AI/ML systems are architected and deployed in enterprise infrastructure.
• Knowledge of security controls in the AI build process and data pipeline security.
• Awareness of data privacy challenges in AI, including DLP and data egress in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor and technical architect for AI security.
• Lead technical discussions and frame client challenges for senior stakeholders.
• Identify emerging threats and design secure AI systems that are compliant and resilient.

Skills

AI Architecture

Secure AI Build

Data Protection

Threat Landscape

Regulated Environment

Client Advisory

Adaptability

Certifications

Job description

Managing Consultant - AI Security & Assurance

• Full-time

We are PA Consulting, and we are not a traditional consulting firm. We are different in what we do and how we do it. PA Consulting is an innovationand transformation consultancy, who believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4000 specialists inhealth and life sciences,consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.

Weoperateglobally from offices across the Nordics,Europe, UK, and US.

Are you passionate about helping enterprise organisations design, build, and deploy secure, cutting-edge AI solutions? We help our clients safely adopt transformative artificial intelligence while navigating complex, regulated environments.

Tomorrow’s enterprise security landscape will not look like today’s. As AI adoption accelerates, organisations face novel architectural challenges, ranging from model manipulation and prompt injection to sensitive data egress and supply chain vulnerabilities. Success requires embedding security directly into the AI development lifecycle, ensuring systems are resilient, compliant, and secure by design.

We bring a rich mix of insight, technical depth, and strategic expertise to these challenges. Our priority is to build lasting partnerships with our clients, guiding them through rapid technological evolution. As we expand our AI Security capability, we are seeking adaptable, forward-thinking consultants who understand the potential of AI and possess the foundational security instincts required to protect enterprise builds in high-stakes environments.

Our AI Security specialists understand how to help enterprise clients develop and put into action an AI resilience strategy that enables them to build for the future without compromising data integrity or regulatory compliance.

You will act as a trusted advisor and technical architect, helping clients safely design and implement AI systems while identifying and mitigating emerging threats. Given the rapid evolution of this field, we prioritise capability, architectural understanding, and growth potential over years of static experience.

Essential skills & capabilities

• AI Architecture & Systems Understanding:Demonstrable understanding of how AI/ML systems, including Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI, and predictive models are architected, fine-tuned, and deployed into enterprise infrastructure.
• Secure AI Build & Lifecycle:Knowledge of how to integrate security controls into the AI build process (DevSecOps for AI/MLSecOps), including data pipeline security, model validation, and secure API integration.
• Data Protection & Egress Control:Deep awareness of data privacy challenges unique to AI, including data loss prevention (DLP), data leakage through model outputs, training data poisoning, and preventing unauthorised data egress in regulated environments.
• Threat Landscape Awareness:Familiarity with AI-specific risk frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, NIST AI Risk Management Framework) and emerging threat vectors such as prompt injection, model inversion, and inference attacks.
• Regulated Environment Navigation:Ability to translate security and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, EU AI Act, HIPAA, SEC/FINRA guidelines) into practical technical safeguards for high-compliance sectors.
• Client Advisory & Delivery:Proven capability in leading technical discussions, structuring client challenges, and communicating complex AI security risks to senior stakeholders (CISOs, Enterprise Architects, and Heads of AI).
• Adaptability & Potential:A continuous-learning mindset with the agility to evaluate and secure emerging AI technologies as fast as they enter the market.
• Relevant Certifications (Preferred):Professional security or cloud certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, AWS/Azure/GCP Security Specialties) alongside specialised AI/ML security coursework or hands-on project experience.

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Hybrid Working- Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on client site.

Adjustments or accommodations- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [emailprotected]