AI Data Engineer: Scalable ML Ops & Data Platforms

Roche; Welwyn; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Data Engineer to anchor our advanced analytics and AI roadmap. You will extract data from diverse sources and design data architectures powering ML models, with production-grade deployments and MLOps practices.

Reporting to the Head of Data, Digitalisation and AI, you will collaborate with Data Scientists and cross-functional squads to turn ideas into scalable, reliable data platforms that support AI initiatives across the affiliate.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering, data architecture or MLOps.
• Strong Python or Scala skills and data modelling.
• Experience with big-data processing and orchestration in the Apache ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Run and maintain AI proof-of-concept builds, ensuring technical viability and integrating them into production.
• Perform complex extraction, transformation and loading from diverse internal and external sources.
• Develop and optimise robust data infrastructure, integrating modern storage such as vector databases to support AI, large language models and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists to operationalise models, using lifecycle tracking and container orchestration at scale.
• Monitor infrastructure and troubleshoot pipeline issues, championing data governance and quality at source.
• Partner Data Consultants to turn business needs into functional technical specifications.

Skills

Data engineering

MLOps

Python

Scala

Big data

Data governance

Tools

Vector databases

Apache ecosystem

Container orchestration

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

Roche is seeking a Data Engineer to anchor our advanced analytics and AI roadmap. You will extract data from diverse sources and design data architectures powering ML models, with production-grade deployments and MLOps practices.

Reporting to the Head of Data, Digitalisation and AI, you will collaborate with Data Scientists and cross-functional squads to turn ideas into scalable, reliable data platforms that support AI initiatives across the affiliate.