AI Engineer / Consultant

AI Consultant / AI Engineer (Contract) Location: Liverpool Street, London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite) Contract Length: Initial 6 months Team: Technology / Data / Digital Transformation My Client is looking for an experienced AI Consultant / AI Engineer to assess, design and accelerate AI adoption across the organisation. This role is ideal for someone who has previously helped scaling ecommerce, retail, FMCG or consumer brands identify operational inefficiencies, introduce AI tooling, and deliver practical AI-enabled business improvements. You will work closely with leadership, ecommerce, marketing, operations, customer experience, and technology teams to define where AI can create measurable commercial impact. Key Responsibilities: • Conduct organisation-wide AI capability and opportunity assessments • Identify operational gaps, inefficiencies and manual workflows suitable for automation or AI augmentation • Evaluate current data architecture, tooling, integrations and AI readiness • Recommend and implement AI solutions across: • Ecommerce optimisation • Customer service automation • Internal productivity tooling • Marketing & content workflows • Forecasting and inventory planning • Search, recommendation and personalisation systems • Define AI governance, security and usage best practices • Build proof-of-concepts and production-ready AI workflows • Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on deployment strategy • Introduce practical LLM and AI tooling using platforms such as OpenAI, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock or Anthropic • Support leadership with AI roadmap planning and ROI analysis • Train internal teams on AI adoption and operational best practices Required Experience: • Proven experience delivering AI transformation projects within organisations • Experience identifying business gaps and implementing AI solutions end-to-end • Strong understanding of LLMs, AI agents, RAG pipelines and workflow automation • Experience integrating AI into ecommerce or digital consumer businesses • Background in consulting, solution architecture or AI engineering • Hands-on Python experience and familiarity with modern AI frameworks • Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills • Ability to balance strategic consulting with hands-on delivery Desirable: • Experience within ecommerce, DTC, FMCG or retail • Experience with Shopify, customer data platforms or marketing automation • Knowledge of recommendation engines and search optimisation • Experience implementing AI governance frameworks • Familiarity with vector databases and AI observability tooling Tech Stack Exposure: • OpenAI / Azure OpenAI • Python • LangChain / LangGraph • AWS or Azure • Vector databases • SQL / Snowflake / BigQuery • API integrations • Workflow automation tooling Why Join: • Opportunity to shape AI strategy within a high-growth consumer brand • Exposure to large-scale ecommerce and operational datasets • Fast-moving and commercially driven environment • High visibility with leadership and digital teams • Hybrid flexibility with central London office If interested, please message directly or apply below.