AI Engineer, Consultant, Digital Innovation

Basic information Location London Business Line Tax & Legal Job Type Permanent / FTC Date published 26-Feb-2026 Req # 22446 Job description Connect to your Industry Deloitte’s Tax Digital Innovation team is a key strategic function within the tax and legal business and includes several future looking capabilities that combined, are helping to drive exciting and innovative growth opportunities. You’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of industry, tax and legal SMEs, technology, and data specialists to provide specialist data science expertise and support on a diverse range of projects with both an internal and client focus. Your role will be as an AI Engineer within our expanding Data and AI Studio. The role involves working on new and existing projects and products, delivering insights to clients, and utilising data to make smarter, better decisions. For this role, you will be a logical problem solver with great attention to detail, willingness to learn, and flexible working across data, AI, engineering, analysis and cloud engineering and automation domains. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. Connect to your opportunity Our Tax and Legal (T&L) Digital Innovation team is expanding its Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities. The Data and AI studio supports the T&L business in researching, building, and delivering analytics and AI-driven solutions to our clients. The team has grown rapidly over the last three years in both size and breadth of services. We need high-calibre and motivated individuals to continue that growth and explore market-differentiating opportunities across the entire T&L business. Our T&L Digital Innovation team has quickly established a strong reputation for being proactive, entrepreneurial, successful, and fun. Working for us will present you with the opportunity to get involved in high-profile projects and will enable you to expand your horizons. We encourage considering flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements, that allow for the best outcomes for our people and clients. Responsibilities Work closely with T&L SMEs to build a deep understanding of business/client challenges and document detailed project requirements. Support the design, development, documentation and technical delivery of advanced analytics, automation, and AI solutions to streamline repetitive business tasks intelligently. Process, clean and verify the integrity of data used for analysis in a project and, where necessary, identify and proactively source additional data. Perform analysis on complex datasets using a variety of techniques, visualise and present results in a clear, logical manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Support the data science team in building and maintaining code in-house and on the cloud Proactive ideation of novel AI engineering and automation solutions in line with business requirements and project pipelines Take data science solutions from proof of concept, through to a full production system. Create, monitor and troubleshoot API’s. Must be a team player and work collaboratively with the business and the team. Connect to your skills and professional experience Essential: Experience full-stack software or ML engineering with strong Python Development practices (CI/CD, testing, muti-threading/asynchronous execution, PEP8 etc.) Experience designing, testing and deploying production-scale AI/ML solutions (APIs, microservices, cloud deployment, endpoint deployment, registries, pipelines) Experience with LLM based applications (NLP, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, Graph RAG, fine-tuning) Proficient in ML tools and modern ecosystem (PyTorch, MLFlow, FastAPI, SQL Alchemy) Experience retrieving data from structured, unstructured and web sources (Selenium/PlayWright, Pandas, XML etc) Experience in Azure including Azure Fabric, Data Factory and Azure integrated services such as ML Studio, Foundry, Synapse, Cosmos Aware of advances in the AI ecosystem and eager to explore, develop and deploy novel cutting-edge solutions. Experience leading end-to-end data client projects, from POC development to production/cloud environment. Evidence of deployment of GenAI/ML models in production systems with good grasp of data engineering lifecycles, ML Ops and LLM Ops. Desirable: Experience with/in: Experience with other cloud provider ML and LLM services (sagemaker, bedrock, langchain, llamaindex, boto3 etc.) Experience with image analysis and extraction tools (Google Cloud Vision, Document Intelligence, MarkItDown) Knowledge of Agentic protocols and their implementation (MCP, ACP, A2A etc.) Building Azure-native RAG and Vector search solutions. Relevant certifications such as AI-102 (Azure AI engineer associate) or DP-100 (Azure Data Scientist Associate) Connect to your business – Tax Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own. Tax Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations. Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request. Connect with your colleagues “At Deloitte you acquire a lot of knowledge – fast. It’s interesting work, often for household names.” - Erica, Tax and Legal Our hybrid working policy You’ll be based in London with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role. Connect to your return to work opportunity Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break? For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application. Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for. Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead. Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level. Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers RTWPROG WPFULL SLTAXC BATAXX