Principal AI Security & Governance Consultant

Consult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult in London seeks a Principal Consultant to lead AI security and governance. You will bridge AI risk, governance and engineering, advising boards and delivering practical frameworks from POC to production.

You will collaborate with clients and engineers to define risk appetite, assess guardrails, data access and IAM, ensuring governance across EU/UK frameworks and industry regulations.

Qualifications

• Experience across security, risk, data, GRC or a related field.
• Strong consulting background with significant client-facing experience.
• Experience designing governance frameworks, risk assessments, policies and controls.
• Practical understanding of how AI systems are built and secured.
• Good understanding of LLMs and agentic AI, including RAG, tool use and orchestration.
• Knowledge of AI security risks including prompt injection, data leakage and excessive agency.
• Strong understanding of relevant AI regulation and frameworks, particularly EU AI Act, UK GDPR/ICO, DPIAs, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.
• Experience working with regulated organisations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior executives and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Advise boards and risk committees on AI risk and governance.
• Design and implement practical AI governance frameworks, policies and controls.
• Support clients with EU AI Act, UK GDPR, DPIA, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 requirements.
• Threat‑model GenAI and agentic AI systems.
• Assess risks including prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency and tool-use escalation.
• Review AI architectures, guardrails, evaluations and security controls.
• Help establish governance and assurance from POC through to production.
• Address data access, permissions, IAM, DLP and non‑human identity risks.
• Develop AI incident response and assurance approaches.
• Assess AI models, vendors and third‑party risks.
• Lead client workshops and contribute to proposals and pre‑sales.
• Develop reusable AI governance and security frameworks, tools and client materials.
• Help develop the consultancy's point of view on AI Security and Governance.

Skills

Security governance

Consulting

AI risk

Executive communication

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP security

IAM

Python scripting

Job description

Consult in London seeks a Principal Consultant to lead AI security and governance. You will bridge AI risk, governance and engineering, advising boards and delivering practical frameworks from POC to production.

You will collaborate with clients and engineers to define risk appetite, assess guardrails, data access and IAM, ensuring governance across EU/UK frameworks and industry regulations.