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Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a
Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.
Our Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL) practice is looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead consultancy engagements and grow our AI & Solutions Engineering capability. The Forward Deployed AI & Solutions Engineer role will lead the delivery of AI-enabled solutions embedded in our clients' teams, combining deep technical specialism with the commercial and leadership skills to grow and shape our practice.
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of client advisory, technical architecture and hands-on delivery leadership – and who has a genuine passion for bringing AI solutions to production at scale.
Our Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL) practice focuses on helping clients control their data, turn it into actionable insights, and better leverage it
through the use of
AI and Machine Learning solutions directly embedded into business processes. We support clients across
a number of
industries and offer deep
expertise
in AI/ML, Cloud, Platform Engineering, and Managed Solutions.
As a Senior Manager in SAIL, you will own and lead consultancy engagements end-to-end from shaping the opportunity and winning the work, through to delivery governance and team leadership. You will bring SME-level depth in at least one of AI/ML Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering, and apply it to create real, lasting value for our clients.
Although we do not expect you to be an expert in
all of
the below activities simultaneously, our team consists of people who can work as advisors to our clients as well as bringing deep technical knowledge when needed. The profile of our typical engagements reflects that.
Key responsibilities span the following areas.
Engagement Leadership:
Own and lead end-to-end delivery of complex AI and technology consulting engagements, taking accountability for scope, quality,
risk
and client outcomes.
Lead and resource multi-disciplinary delivery teams including engineers, data scientists and consultants providing clear direction, technical
oversight
and people development.
Manage engagement resourcing: forecast team requirements, work with practice leadership to staff engagements, and develop the talent pipeline through mentoring and support of junior practitioners.
Proactively
identify
and manage delivery risks in complex stakeholder environments, escalating appropriately and
maintaining
client confidence throughout.
Communicate clearly to both technical teams and senior client stakeholders, translating complexity into actionable insight and decisive recommendation.
Conduct rigorous technical reviews and uphold engineering and delivery standards across every engagement you lead.
Business Development & Bid Support:
Play a leading role in business development:
identifying
new opportunities, shaping propositions, and supporting or leading bids and tender responses for AI and technology engagements.
Contribute to proposal writing, articulating Baringa’s capabilities and differentiators, including authoring technical and delivery sections of bid responses to client tenders and RFPs.
Build and
maintain
strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and developing opportunities for follow-on engagement.
Support practice-level growth initiatives, including account planning, capability development, and go-to-market positioning for AI and solutions engineering services.
Technical Architecture & Delivery:
Lead architecture design for AI-enabled platforms and cloud solutions, balancing technical excellence with delivery pragmatism and commercial realities.
Provide hands-on technical direction where
required
– reviewing designs,
code
and delivery artefacts to
maintain
quality standards across the engagement.
Champion the path from prototype to production: driving robust,
scalable
and secure AI deployments that go beyond proof-of-concept thinking to
real business
impact at scale.
Act as a credible technical voice with client architects, CTOs and engineering leads, earning trust through depth of knowledge and a demonstrable delivery
track record.
AI/ML Specialism
You will bring expert-level k
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