Senior AI Consultant

Location:

Reading, UK (Hybrid)

Company:
Coeo Ltd

Please Note:

You must have a UK passport or be able to live and work in the UK without employer sponsorship.

Coeo is a trusted data management and analytics expert, delivering technology strategy and support for business. The team has deep technical and commercial experience working with Microsoft Data and AI Services to help our clients optimise their costs and maximise the benefits from their investments in these technologies.

Coeo has a strong emphasis on consulting skills, and we expect our team members to be customer‑facing and have a growth mind‑set. This role sits within our consulting team, and we have clear expectations that our team members understand the importance of personal utilisation and can spot opportunities within our clients that can be passed back to our business development team.

Coeo has been established for over 18 years and has exclusively focused on Microsoft technologies. Our mission is to "help our clients predict their future" through the better use of data, technology, people and processes. To do this our business has always focused on:

• Managed Services
• Database Consultancy
• Data Engineering, Analytics and AI Consultancy
• Adoption and Change Management

This role sits within our AI & Innovation team
, focused on designing and delivering Generative AI solutions using large language models (LLMs) on Microsoft Azure. As a Senior Consultant, you’ll lead client engagements across GenAI experimentation and production use cases—shaping architectures, building intelligent applications, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and deliver real business value.

There will be at times a requirement to travel, visiting client sites across the UK and occasionally abroad, with nights away from home.

• Development and delivery of analytics projects.
• Understanding and shaping project scope to deliver on time and within budget and be capable of raising risks and issues to the Coeo team where required.
• Working with the Sales team and PMO to identify new opportunities for client engagement and supporting the commercial engagement.
• Delivering technical solution designs and architectures to meet client requirements.
• Effectively gather client requirements using 1 to 1 interviews and workshops to ask clarifying questions when needed.
• Recommend the optimal solution and approach to analytics architecture to deliver the client requirements.
• Ability to understand and articulate the importance of change management, user training, adoption & support.
• Set high standards for self on adhering to information and security practices and processes to protect personal data and maintain the integrity of Coeo and its customer.
• Strong documentation and writing skills.

You’ll need to have experience with some of the following and be able to learn new technologies or concepts quickly:

• Python / Py Spark - Experience using Python and PySpark to connect to APIs and extract data, with strong API design skills and familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks such as Lang Graph and Microsoft Agent Framework.
• Data Engineering - Ability to work with unstructured data and build reliable data and development pipelines.
• Vector Databases & Services - Hands‑on experience using vector databases and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) to store and retrieve data for LLMs.
• Skills Development for LLM Models - Understanding of selected LLM technologies and the ability to create and maintain the supporting skills files and MCP servers required.
• Understanding of Linux - Good working knowledge of Linux, with Docker experience an advantage due to toolchain dependencies.
• Prompt Design and Context Engineering - Strong skills in designing prompts and engineering the right context to optimise LLM outputs.
• Evaluation and Testing - Experience creating test cases and test harnesses for LLM solutions to enable repeatable outcomes where possible.
• Architectural Guidance - Capability to challenge designs, guide architecture decisions, and drive innovative solutions.
• Model Management, Outcome Drift, Continual Improvement - Experience managing models in production, monitoring…