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About the Role

This role is responsible for driving AI technical conversations, developing practical business solutions, and translating AI strategy into scalable solutions, platforms, and use cases. The successful candidate will collaborate with UK service line, IT, data, and risk teams to ensure AI initiatives are technically robust and aligned with business value. This position requires strong hands-on technical credibility, enterprise delivery experience, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across AI initiatives, supporting the delivery of the firm’s AI strategy and transformation priorities.
Act as a trusted technical adviser to senior stakeholders, helping shape realistic and pragmatic routes forward for AI adoption.
Support prioritisation of AI use cases by assessing technical feasibility, delivery complexity, risk, and potential business value.
Work with UK and international teams to share good practice, align approaches, and support scalable delivery across jurisdictions.
Coach and support colleagues involved in AI delivery.
Contribute to the development and delivery of the firm’s AI roadmap, with a focus on technical architecture, delivery planning, and platform readiness.
Translate strategic priorities into practical delivery plans, solution designs, and implementation options.
Provide informed insight on emerging AI technologies, including generative AI, agentic systems, automation, model orchestration, and enterprise AI platforms.
Identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, client experience, and operational effectiveness through AI-enabled solutions.
Help assess where AI should be built, bought, configured, or integrated, considering risk, cost, scalability, and maintainability.
Work with service lines and business teams to shape, prototype, and deliver high-value AI use cases.
Support the management of the AI use case pipeline from ideation to scaled deployment and adoption.
Partner with product owners and change teams to embed AI into business processes and ways of working.
Support ongoing monitoring, iteration, and improvement of AI products once deployed.
Help evidence value realisation, including efficiency, quality, risk reduction, adoption, and user experience measures.
Support the technical design of AI solutions.
Work with IT and enterprise architecture teams to ensure AI solutions align with approved cloud, data, security, and integration standards.
Support deployment of AI models, applications, workflows, and services using appropriate software engineering practices.
Advise on the use of enterprise platforms, including Microsoft Azure AI services, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other approved AI technologies.
Define practical approaches for testing, monitoring, performance measurement, and continuous improvement of AI solutions.
Ensure technical solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and suitable for use in a regulated professional services environment.
Help define reusable technical patterns, templates, and standards for AI delivery.
Ensure AI solutions are designed with maintainability, supportability, and operational resilience in mind.
Assess AI opportunities against strategic alignment, technical feasibility, risk, delivery effort, and measurable value.
Support business cases for AI investment by providing clear technical options, delivery assumptions, and implementation considerations.
Track delivery progress and help communicate the value of AI initiatives to stakeholders.
Identify opportunities to reuse components, platforms, and patterns to improve efficiency and reduce duplication.
Balance pace of delivery with appropriate risk management, governance, and technical quality.

Requirements

Experience translating business problems into scalable technical solutions and delivery plans.
Clear examples of driving or generating business value at scale.
Ability to lead technical conversations with both engineering teams and non-technical senior stakeholders.
Experience working with cloud-based AI platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Platform, or comparable enterprise technologies.
Technical experience delivering AI, machine learning, generative AI, or advanced analytics solutions in an enterprise environment.
Hands-on understanding of AI solution architecture, including model integration, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment.
Experience working with risk, compliance, information security, or data protection teams in relation to AI or data-led solutions.
Proven ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and influence without relying solely on formal authority.
Understanding of accountancy, audit, tax, advisory, or professional services environments is highly desirable.
Experience working with international teams or across multiple jurisdictions is desirable.
Technically credible, curious, and able to stay close to rapidly evolving AI capabilities.
Pragmatic and outcome-focused, with the judgment to balance innovation, risk, and delivery pace.
Clear communicator who can explain complex AI concepts in practical business language.
Collaborative and confident working across different business areas, technology, risk, and international teams.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning ideas into structured technical options.
Strong delivery and client experience mindset with attention to quality, governance, and measurable impact.
Positive, resilient, and able to build trust with stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
Behaviours consistent with firm values.

Skills

AI
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Advanced Analytics
AI Solution Architecture
Model Integration
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Prompt Engineering
Orchestration
Evaluation
Deployment
Microsoft Azure AI services
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Power Platform
Enterprise AI Platforms
Cloud-based AI platforms

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services.
Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners.
We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.
You'll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you're supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one.
You'll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team.
Together, we grow, belong and impact.

Equal Opportunity

At Forvis Mazars diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values.
We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity create better outcomes for our clients.
We seek to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, inclusive of sex, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, and faith.
We select candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience and aim to support all our team members to reach their potential.
At Forvis Mazars, we promote an environment in which you can grow your skills, belong to a team that values your ideas, and make an impact that matters.