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- Edinburgh is the preferred location for this role, London base is also possible
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The EY Financial Services AI & Data team is continuing to grow and develop unique advisory propositions aligned to market needs and demand. We are currently looking for an exceptional AI/ML engineer / consultant with strong experience of delivering within the AI & Data space in financial services.
We fully support the Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) vision for an ecosystem with Data, AI and emerging technology at the core and are now recruiting for new colleagues as part of our strategic investment to help deliver this vision. We offer the opportunity to join a local team, driving continued growth and success on a global scale, delivering exceptional career experiences and advancing Scotland’s position as a world leader in Financial Services.
Joining EY’s AI & Data team in this exciting period of growth will offer a huge variety of opportunity to make a tangible impact to our client’s businesses and to your career.
The Opportunity
In this AI & Data consulting role, you will work collectively with our clients to define AI & Data solutions that will enhance the client’s ability to solve business problems and deliver value.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Understand business problems and propose smart, pragmatic, and diverse approaches to address a variety of business problems into AI & Data solutions.
- Determine the value proposition of AI / ML solutions versus other alternatives.
- Design, build, and deploy solutions that seamlessly combine AI/ML and Data solutions with broader enterprise architecture
- Business development; including the development of long-term trusted advisor relationships with our clients and alliance vendors. You will support RFP responses as well as thought leadership articles that we issue to the market.
- Develop our people through coaching, talent development, recruitment and formal performance management.
- Elevate EY solutions and empower others adopt them through re-usable services, frameworks, templates, and knowledge sharing.
- Manage and track engagement financials, including time management, billing and invoice management.
Skills And Attributes For Success
We’re looking for people with a passion for the delivery of AI & Data solutions that deliver positive outcomes for customers, regulators and shareholders. You should have leadership, critical thinking and teamwork skills, and an ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing.
To qualify for the role, you must have some or all of the following:
- 5+ years’ of FS experience in one of the following sectors: Banking, Capital Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, or Insurance
- 3+ years’ experience applying AI / ML engineering in a commercial setting.
- Track record of successfully delivering end-to-end Gen AI / Data science / Machine learning solutions.
- Experience creating new AI propositions / assets/ solutions and launching these to the market
- Experience with MLOps practices, covering the full cycle from design, experimentation, deployment, to monitoring and maintenance of machine learning models
- Experience using agentic AI, Gen AI, data science libraries.
- Proficient level programming skills, preferably Python.
- Software collaboration experience using version control.
- Experience of Agile and traditional SDLC delivery methodologies
Nice to have
- Relevant experience in Data and Cloud Platform Technologies
- ML Certifications on Snowflake, Databricks, or NVIDIA advantageous but not essential and EY will invest in the right candidate to support their professional development
- A point of view on how the FS industry will continue to evolve and how the technology, innovation and FinTech landscape will shape the future
- Previous consulting experience would be a plus, but so would the curiosity and ambition to develop your career with a consulting role
What We Look For
We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about AI and Data and want to assist clients to become truly data driven organisations. If you think you can meet the challenges of a focused consulting organisation, understand how to grow and lead in a large practice and work in the most complex of sectors our AI and Data team is looking forward to hearing from you.
What We Offer
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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