AI Data Engineer - Senior Consultant

Deloitte's Human Capital team is seeking an AI Engineer Senior Consultant to build and operate the data and AI foundations that enhance Human Capital AI products and analytics. This hands-on role involves designing and delivering secure, scalable AI solutions in collaboration with various teams to support model training and real-time inference.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Lead AI Solutions Architect and AI Data Engineer to translate Human Capital product needs into secure, scalable technical designs and delivered solutions (APIs, services, pipelines, containers/serverless) meeting availability, performance, and security expectations
• Build and operationalize LLM-enabled capabilities (e.g., copilots, HR knowledge assistants, summarization, policy Q&A) using Claude/GPT(Codex)/Gemini, including secure endpoints, tool/function calling, and reusable prompt/context patterns
• Implement LLM application patterns including RAG, document ingestion/chunking, embeddings, vector/hybrid search, and retrieval/evaluation telemetry
• Deliver governed datasets and feature engineering/serving for ML training and real-time inference (online/offline consistency, caching, latency SLOs, backfills)
• Implement safety, privacy, and access controls (PII handling, prompt-injection defenses, content filtering, policy-based access) with security and risk stakeholders
• Establish data/model reliability and cost-performance discipline (data quality, schema evolution, lineage/metadata, monitoring; right-sizing, query tuning, LLM token/cost telemetry)
• Contribute to MLOps/LLMOps and production operations (versioning, reproducibility, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response); support design reviews, deployment readiness, and runbooks