Principal Consultant - AI Consulting

Employment Type: Permanent 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Position: Principal Consultant - AI

Job Description 

Join Delta Capita’s Data, Technology, and AI (DTA) consulting team as a Principal Consultant, where your AI consulting expertise will shape the next generation of technology-enabled transformation in financial services. 

As a Principal Consultant, the successful candidate will work directly with our clients to deliver cutting-edge propositions around AI, automation, data platforms, cloud and other emerging technologies our clients are looking to utilise. You will be the primary point of contact between the customer and DC as part of our Global Consulting team based in London, helping clients navigate their most complex AI challenges. 

To know more about our Consulting services, click here Consulting - Delta Capita.

Requirements

As an experienced Principal Consultant, you will have:

• Deep understanding of the AI landscape, from data foundations and model development to governance and responsible AI, preferably within financial services

• Proven experience advising C-level clients on the practical applications of AI in financial services, including agentic AI, generative AI, automation, and predictive analytics.

• Strong commercial awareness alongside excellent delivery. Demonstrate leadership capability across client and internal deliverables.

• Contributed to internal initiatives and drive Consulting AI expertise, as well as supporting industry knowledge and commercials.

• Strong People Leader with proven man management experience.

• Led Client engagements, structured and planned out entire engagements, including estimation, and balances with client expectations. As well as proposing ideas for continuous improvement/ operational excellence to improve delivery.

• Change management expertise: Strategy, Design, Analysis, Project Management, Build Testing, Go-Live.

• Extensive understanding of Financial Services, including products and client lifecycle matters

• Managing projects and teams supporting successful project/programme deliveries

• Good knowledge of the capital markets eco-system and participants. E.g., Sell side, buy side, market infrastructure, etc.

• Demonstrate commercial awareness of how to leverage client relationships

• Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to clients

  Responsibilities include;

• Lead AI-focused client engagements, acting as the main point of contact and trusted advisor.

• Deliver high-quality AI, data, and automation projects across financial services.

• Own account and project delivery for clients.

• Manage a team of consultants ensuring high delivery quality.

• Propose ideas for continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• Responsible for pipeline management of the team/direct reports including; rolls offs, extensions, new opportunities, and pricing.

• Make valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to clients.

• Stay ahead of AI trends, tools, and regulatory developments to ensure our offerings remain cutting-edge, safe, scalable and compliant.

• Drafting and negotiating statements of work including rates/pricing.

• Contribute to internal initiatives and drive AI expertise.

How We Work:  

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  
  
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.  

This is a permanent full-time position located in London. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.  

Expectations regarding hybrid working: As we are a Service Provider and Consulting firm servicing clients, our policy for physically working from the office (which may be the client’s offices or our own offices depending on the client) aligns to what our client’s policies and expectations are and these vary. Most of our client’s now require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, 2 days from home, and accordingly this is also the minimum expectation that Delta Capita require.  

Who We Are:  

Delta Capita Group is a global managed services, consulting and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.  

Our 3 offerings are:  

• Managed Services  

• Consulting & Solutions  

• Technology  

To know more about Delta Capita and our culture click here: Working at DC - Delta Capita.