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Job Specifications

Principal AI/ML Consultant (Contract)

Location: London (2 days per week on-site, remainder remote)

Contract: 6 months, Outside IR35

Start: ASAP

Overview

A leading digital technology consultancy is seeking a Principal AI/ML Consultant to lead strategic technical transformation within a financial services environment. This is a hands-on, client-facing role focused on modernising legacy systems, driving AI adoption, and delivering measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the systematic modernisation of legacy services, prioritising based on business impact.
Eliminate technical debt by extracting APIs, decommissioning obsolete services, and consolidating functionality.
Collaborate with engineering teams to identify and deliver high-impact modernisation opportunities.
Support platform services strategy by transforming legacy services into reusable, shared components.
Drive adoption of AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development and modernisation.
Create playbooks and replicable patterns for AI-enabled development and modernisation.
Use LLMs and AI for service discovery, dependency mapping, code analysis, refactoring, and documentation.
Demonstrate and quantify business value from AI adoption.
Ensure modernised services are handed off with clear ownership and integrated into new workflows.

Skills & Experience

Proven experience leading technical teams and modernising complex legacy systems at scale.
Strong architectural skills and ability to design logical abstractions for legacy code.
Experience managing mixed teams of employees and contractors.
Hands-on experience implementing AI/LLMs in software development workflows.
Proficiency with modern AI development tooling (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).
Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable productivity improvements from AI adoption.
Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government) is highly desirable.
Commercial awareness and ability to translate technical work into business outcomes.
Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset with a bias for action and incremental improvement.

Desirable

Knowledge of institutional trading requirements and B2B platform architecture.
Background in platform engineering or developer productivity.
Experience with federated open-source contribution models.

About the Company

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