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Principal Data & AI/ML Consultant

Daemon Solutions Ltd.
London
6 months ago
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Daemon’s all about helping people use technology to make the world a better place. We love building trusted partnerships with our clients, and helping them embrace the tech that can make their business better. For that we need our people to embrace the Daemon way – doing great work in a great place, with diverse talents, all united by our shared values.

We’re looking for tech heroes with the va-va-voom to help us unite teams behind one vision, empower their potential, and inspire them with our One Team spirit.

The aim is to get everyone to the future faster. By turning teams into the movements that power digital transformation.

What we do

Our core set of client-centric solutions are designed to smash client’s problems and make tech work harder for them. They include:

  • Performance engineering
  • Cloud adoption, migration and optimisation
  • Data, ML and AI enablement

We tie this all together with a little thing we call ‘delivery excellence’, backed up with performance engineering, DevOps, and design thinking.

What to expect

You’ll be a member of the Daemon Data & AI/ML team, pushing to win work on exciting, challenging and rewarding projects with some famous brands. Working hand-in-glove with high-performing teammates, you’ll develop personally and professionally, surrounded by superhero consultants digging deep to deliver together.

What we need

We are looking for a Principal level Consultant with a minimum of 8 years experience to join our growing technology consultancy based in Central London. This position requires you to be engaged on client projects and where possible, on client sites. You’ll be involved from start to finish.

About you

You’re a strong oral and written communicator, comfortable working with senior C-level stakeholders. You’ll lead by example, you’re pragmatic, productive but also creative. You’ve got the beans to motivate teams of all sizes and manage development plans for yourself and know which areas to focus on to keep things moving.

You actively get involved with the domain community whether that’s blogging, events or webinars. You have an entrepreneurial mindset that means you look for opportunities wherever you think there is value and you always take pride in the high level of quality you bring to all delivery.

Your responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for a wide range of activities including:

  • Assisting clients create Data & Machine Learning & AI Solutions
  • Help define best practices on implementation for Data, ML & AI projects
  • Define work packages and plan for success
  • Communication of complex technical problems in simple terms
  • Lead Data Engineering/ML team to deliver the engagements to clients

You’ll report to our Head of Data & ML/AI Engineering.

Your experience

  • Experience implementing data and/or machine learning solutions for clients
  • Strong stakeholder management at all levels
  • Experience implementing machine learning projects in production
  • Experience with personalisation/recommenders projects (experience with forecasting projects is a nice to have)
  • Experience managing a team of mid to senior engineers

Who you’ll work with

Internally you’ll be assigned a mentee, whom you can help develop with your experience.

You’ll be working with Senior Consultants and Consultants helping you deliver solutions to our clients.

Benefits

We pay competitive salaries with some great benefits (which we’re always reviewing):

  • 25 days paid annual leave
  • Private healthcare (extended to family members), including mental health cover
  • Dental cover (extended to family members)
  • Death in service policy (4 x annual salary)
  • Electric vehicle incentive scheme
  • Certification bounties (bonuses for completing tech certification)
  • Flexible working (working hours and/or flexible location)
  • Working from abroad

More about Daemon life

We’ve been powering digital transformations since 2007, when Calum Fitzgerald and Steve Bennett first founded Daemon Solutions. Now, we’re up to 160+ Daemonites, beavering away on the tech visions that’ll make all the difference for our clients.

Training and development

We love it when Daemonites want to get certified in new or existing technologies. Not only will we pay for you to do it – there might even be a bit of a bonus in it for you. We also make sure that you get internal training on the new products you need.

You’ll get the chance to work with enterprise clients on different types of engagements, so you can hone your fabulous skill set and get to grips with all the latest tech.

Thanks for considering a career with Daemon - here’s what happens next

This is the really easy part. Attach your CV to an email and send us a message! Feel free to include anything that will inform, educate or entertain us too!

Our Values

Approachable: We’re easy to talk to and work with. We like to stay open-minded: we listen, absorb and consider the ideas, views and knowledge of others.

Integrity: We have a strong sense of fairness and honesty; we do the right thing in a reliable way. But we can – and will – say no when required.

Pragmatic: We approach things sensibly and realistically, with a clear focus on outcomes, goals, and getting things done.

Progressive: We embrace change; there are always things that could be improved. We like to do this collaboratively with our clients and colleagues.

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