Senior Data Engineer - ML and AI Platform Engineering

Datatech Analytics
City of London
3 days ago
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Senior Data Engineer - ML and AI Platform Engineering

Location: London - Hybrid - Monday to Wednesday in office

Salary: £70,000 to £80,000 Dependent on Experience

Ref: J13026


We are working with an AI first SaaS business that transforms messy first party data into trusted, decision ready insight.


They are scaling thoughtfully and building an engineering team where you will be heard, supported, and given real space to grow. If you enjoy building production grade data and ML pipelines, and want a culture that genuinely backs your development, this is worth exploring.


What you’ll be doing

  • Building, shipping, and owning cloud-native data and ML pipelines end to end
  • Strengthening CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, and platform reliability
  • Partnering with product, engineering, and data science to deliver outcomes, not experiments
  • Helping define the standards, patterns, and ways of working as the platform evolves


What you’ll bring

  • Strong Python/PySpark and solid SQL coding experience
  • Proven delivery of production systems at scale, not just prototypes
  • Cloud experience and modern engineering practices, CI/CD, observability, automated testing
  • Collaborative mindset, you share, ask, support, and raise the bar with the team
  • Strong communicator, able to engage clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders


Why this team

  • Supportive and inclusive culture where every voice is heard and respected
  • Leadership that genuinely cares about representation and creating space for diverse careers in data
  • Clear progression with options to grow into leadership, senior engineering, or deeper AI platform paths
  • Strong mentoring, knowledge sharing, and a sensible approach to performance, wellbeing, and work life balance


No sponsorship or post study visas


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Datatech is one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies in the field of analytics and host of the critically acclaimed event, Women in Data. For more information, visit our website: www.datatech.org.uk

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