Senior Gen AI Developer

Bringing Ingenuity to Life. We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.

What you can expect:

• Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.
• You’ll be using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients, as well as working on internal projects.
• Live in-person whiteboarding sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams.
• Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week.
• Experimenting with Generative AI frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and APIs from OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) prototypes with vector stores and knowledge graphs.
• Developing and testing agentic architectures through our own Genie Platform – enabling AI agents that reason, retrieve, and act across systems.
• Exploring LLMOps, evaluation tools, and model observability platforms like TruLens and LangSmith.
• Deploying solutions on modern cloud and DevOps environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Constantly learning, testing, and sharing findings across our internal AI community.

Qualifications:

• Software engineers with a passion for AI – or data scientists who’ve embraced engineering.
• People who experiment, prototype, and explore emerging AI tools in their own time.
• Strong foundation in a language suited to AI system development and data workflows.
• Experience integrating models with APIs, data sources, or production systems.
• Curiosity about LLMs, RAG pipelines (Graph & Vector based), and agent frameworks.
• Understanding of cloud-native (AWS / GCP / Azure) and DevOps / DevSecOps practices.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to share, learn, and teach.
• Understanding of prompt and context engineering and model evaluation.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs.
• An understanding of LLMOps tools for managing GenAI workflows.

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance. All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard; however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

Additional information:

• Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters – to discuss your application, the role and PA.
• Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins).
• Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever you didn’t do at first round (60 mins).
• Final round: Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins).

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It’s about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. We’re focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people.

Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com.