Senior AI Assurance Consultant

Deerfoot IT Resources Limited; Ribble Valley; Hybride; GBP 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Deerfoot IT Resources Limited seeks a Senior AI Assurance Consultant to shape how organisations adopt AI safely at scale in the UK. You will define AI assurance frameworks and lead risk assessments across the lifecycle, partnering with product, engineering, security and compliance teams.

The role offers hybrid working in London, Manchester or Glasgow with a competitive £60k-£80k salary plus bonus and benefits, reflecting seniority and market norms.

Qualifications

• Experience in AI risk management and assurance across model performance, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience embedding AI governance across the end-to-end lifecycle.
• Ability to conduct AI risk and impact assessments and assurance reviews in regulated environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management; translate technical concepts to risk-based recommendations.
• Strong understanding of AI monitoring and observability (drift detection, post-deployment assurance).

Responsabilités

• Define and deliver AI assurance frameworks covering fairness, safety, privacy, and governance.
• Lead AI risk, impact and control assessments across business, legal and regulatory domains.
• Embed risk management from use-case selection to retirement in the AI lifecycle.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, security, legal and compliance teams.
• Establish monitoring and incident management to ensure ongoing performance and safety.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide AI transformation and growth of the AI Strategy practice.

Connaissances

AI risk management

AI assurance

Governance

Stakeholder management

AI monitoring

Regulatory compliance

Description du poste

Senior AI Assurance Consultant

London, Manchester or Glasgow / Hybrid
£60k - £80k per annum + bonus & benefits
Permanent

Are you ready to help shape how organisations safely and responsibly adopt AI at enterprise scale? This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading AI Strategy team at the forefront of Generative AI, agentic AI, copilots and AI-enabled transformation. You'll combine strategic thinking, commercial awareness and deep AI risk expertise to help organisations move from AI ambition to responsible, scalable execution.

You'll work on complex, high-impact challenges spanning AI assurance, governance, risk management and lifecycle management, helping organisations build trust in AI while unlocking its potential.

What you'll be doing

• Define and deliver AI assurance: Design, implement and continuously improve AI assurance frameworks covering fairness, safety, transparency, explainability, privacy, security, robustness, accountability and regulatory compliance.
• Identify and assess AI risk: Lead AI risk, impact and control assessments, evaluating business, operational, ethical, legal, regulatory and societal risks, particularly in high-risk or regulated environments.
• Embed risk throughout the AI lifecycle: Integrate first-line AI risk management and assurance from use-case selection and design through development, testing, deployment, monitoring, change management and retirement.
• Build trusted AI solutions: Partner with product, engineering, data science, security, privacy, legal and compliance teams to ensure AI solutions align with risk appetite, governance requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Ensure ongoing AI performance: Establish requirements for monitoring, performance validation, drift detection, incident management and post-deployment assurance so AI systems remain effective, safe and compliant.
• Shape AI strategy and growth: Contribute to enterprise-wide AI transformation, solve complex strategic challenges and help grow the wider AI Strategy practice.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrable experience in AI risk management and assurance, including model performance, transparency, explainability, accountability, privacy, security and regulatory compliance.
• Strong experience embedding AI governance, risk management and assurance across the end-to-end AI lifecycle.
• Proven ability to conduct AI risk assessments, impact assessments, control evaluations and assurance reviews, ideally within regulated or high-risk environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and regulatory concepts into clear, practical, risk-based recommendations for technical, operational and executive audiences.
• Strong understanding of AI monitoring and observability, including performance validation, drift detection, incident management and post-deployment assurance.
• A genuine passion for responsible, safe and scalable AI adoption, combined with commercial acumen, curiosity, adaptability and the ability to remain effective in complex or high-pressure environments.
• Desirable: Experience across sectors such as Central Government, Defence, Manufacturing, Automotive, Life Sciences, Consumer Products & Retail or Financial Services; experience influencing cross-functional teams and operating in complex or highly regulated risk environments.

If you've held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: AI Strategy Consultant, AI Strategy Lead, AI Risk Consultant, AI Risk Manager, AI Assurance Lead, AI Governance Consultant, Responsible AI Consultant, AI Governance Lead, AI Assurance, AI Risk Management, AI Governance, Generative AI, Agentic AI, AI Copilots, AI Lifecycle Management, AI Monitoring, AI Observability, Model Risk, Responsible AI, Risk & Control Assessments.

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy