AI Evangelist

AI Evangelist - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

Role Overview

The Senior AI Evangelist plays a pivotal hands-on role in shaping and driving the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence across the organization. This position bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI technologies and real-world financial business needs, influencing both strategy and execution. The role requires deep technical expertise, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for translating AI innovation into meaningful business impact across investment banking, trading, insurance, and broader financial ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities - Evangelism & Strategy

Solution Innovation: Build and demonstrate AI-powered solutions tailored to financial applications, including use cases in investment banking, trading, and insurance.

AI Storytelling: Translate complex AI concepts into clear, actionable business value for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.

Education & Enablement: Lead workshops, seminars, and training sessions to improve AI literacy and upskill teams across banking, investment, or insurance environments.

Executive Advisory: Provide advisory-level guidance to CxOs, Heads of Engineering, and Heads of Architecture on AI strategy, enterprise architecture, and emerging technology trends.

Industry Influence: Represent the organization at conferences, webinars, and industry forums to position the firm as a leader in responsible AI adoption in finance.

Regulatory Alignment: Collaborate with compliance, risk, and IT teams to ensure AI solutions adhere to stringent financial-sector regulatory, ethical, and governance standards.

AI Model Deployment: Prototype, test, and deploy AI systems for use cases such as market forecasting, customer insights, automated underwriting, fraud detection, and anti-money laundering (AML).

Key Technical & Design Responsibilities

Agentic & Generative AI Architectures: Build, deploy, and manage agentic AI systems and generative code workflows using LLMs, automation agents, and code generation tools within secure production environments.

Technical Leadership: Oversee solution design, implementation, and code reviews-particularly for code created or augmented by AI-to ensure security, scalability, and maintainability across Python and other languages.

AI Reliability & Governance: Develop and maintain rigorous testing/validation frameworks for AI-generated code, agent behavior, prompts, and model outputs, including monitoring for anomalies and compliance risks.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with DevOps, Security, Product, and Business teams to drive rapid, safe integration of agentic and generative AI features into enterprise systems.

Essential Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Finance, or a related field.

Experience with high-level programming languages such as C++, Java, or C#.

Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks for UI development.

Strong hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), particularly within financial workflows.

To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn on (phone number removed) or at (url removed).

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