Managing Consultant - Ai Security & Assurance

Pa Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for you and family

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Cycle to work scheme

Give as you earn

Job summary

PA Consulting seeks a Managing Consultant for AI Security & Assurance in London to design, build and deploy secure AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will embed security across the AI development lifecycle and guide clients through regulated environments with senior stakeholders.

The role requires strong advisory capabilities, architectural understanding of AI/ML systems, and the ability to translate complex risks into actionable safeguards.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable understanding of how AI/ML systems and LLMs are architected, tuned and deployed in enterprise infra.
• Ability to integrate security into the AI build process (DevSecOps for AI/MLSecOps).
• Deep awareness of data privacy challenges and data egress controls in AI.
• Familiarity with AI-specific risk frameworks and emerging threats like prompt injection.
• Translate security/compliance requirements into practical safeguards for high-regulation sectors.
• Lead technical discussions and communicate AI security risks to senior stakeholders.
• Continuous-learning mindset to evaluate and secure emerging AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements as trusted advisor and technical architect on AI security.
• Structure client challenges and deliver secure AI solutions for enterprise builds.

Skills

AI architecture

Secure AI build

Data protection

Threat landscape

Regulated environment

Client advisory

Adaptability

AI security certifications

Job description

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.

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

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 [e-mail]

Managing Consultant - AI Security & Assurance London, United Kingdom