Lead Machine Learning & AI Engineer - 10 month Fixed Term Contract

You’ll continue to grow and evolve our Machine Learning & AI Engineering standards and frameworks.

You’ll design further enhancements to the data pipelines and engineering infrastructure to embed scaled machine learning & AI solutions.

You’ll support data science and AI discovery and model development activities, through acquisition and transformation of data.

You’ll support model development, with an emphasis on auditability, versioning, and data security.

You’ll collaboratively design and implement AI Ops on cloud (Azure).

You’ll optimise deployment of ML & AI model scoring code in production services.

You’ll use CI/CD pipelines, manage the deployment and version management of large numbers of data science & AI models, supporting customer and operational processes.

You’ll protect against model degradation and operational performance issues through the development and continual automated monitoring of model execution and model quality.

You’ll manage the remediation of priority 2, 3 and 4 issues impacting production ML & AI services deployed within the business.

You’ll carry out data science & AI model testing, validation and test automation.

You’ll support deployment of ML & AI models as API endpoints for consumption within First Central and partner systems.

You’ll continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology, processes and practices.

You’ll lead group discussions on system design and architecture and sharing knowledge with the wider engineering community.

You’ll collaborate closely with data scientists, data engineers, AI engineers, and the software development team to ensure end to end data science and AI solutions are embedded into business processes.

You’ll liaise with senior stakeholders across the business to ensure ML and AI are being used to improve strategic business decisions and identify new areas for improvements

You’ll provide coaching, empowerment and support to a team of ML Ops and AI engineers.

You’ll comply with the requirements, and act in accordance with, the Group Code of Conduct and Fitness and Propriety policies at all times.

You’ll ensure compliance with Company Policies, Values and guidelines and other relevant standards/ regulations at all times.

Extensive experience of building end-to-end systems as a Platform Engineer, ML DevOps Engineer, or Data Engineer.

Experience building integrations between cloud-based systems using APIs.

Experience developing and maintaining ML and AI systems.

Experience of agile ways of working, applied in a data science, machine learning and AI environment.

Experience of designing, or maintaining data software development lifecycles, and continuous integration and deployment (CICD).

Exposure to machine learning and AI methodology and best practices.

Coaching experience.

Experience within financial/insurance services industry advantageous

Strong stakeholder management.

Leads by example, encouraging others to fulfil their potential.

Embrace, embed and incorporate the company values.

Self-motivated and enthusiastic.

An organised and proactive approach.

Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

A flexible approach and positive attitude.

Strives to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business.

If you thrive in high‑impact environments, want to lead meaningful AI innovation and move fast while doing it, we’d be excited to hear from you.

We’re looking for talented people who want to make a real impact for our customers, colleagues and business. Apply today and discover where a career at 1st Central could take you.

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