Lead ML & AI Platform Engineer (Azure + MLOps)

firstcentral; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

1st Central is seeking a Lead Machine Learning & AI Engineer on a 10-month fixed-term contract within our Data & Analytics function. You will design and implement production-ready ML/AI frameworks and lead a small team across ML Ops, Analytics Engineering and AI Engineering.

Hybrid role with primary home-based work; occasional office days in Salford Quays (Manchester), Haywards Heath or Guernsey. You will collaborate with Data Science, Pricing, Data Engineering and Software Development to embed

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building end-to-end systems as Platform Engineer / ML DevOps / Data Engineer.
• Experience building integrations between cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Grow and evolve our ML/AI engineering standards and frameworks.
• Design enhancements to data pipelines and engineering infrastructure to embed scaled ML/AI solutions.
• Support data science and AI model development activities, focusing on auditability, versioning and data security.
• Collaborate on deploying ML/AI models via CI/CD pipelines and API endpoints for internal use.
• Monitor model performance and implement automated checks to prevent degradation in production.
• Coach and empower ML Ops and AI engineers while liaising with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Python & ML

MLOps

Production Deployment

Analytical Thinking

People Management

Job description

1st Central is seeking a Lead Machine Learning & AI Engineer on a 10-month fixed-term contract within our Data & Analytics function. You will design and implement production-ready ML/AI frameworks and lead a small team across ML Ops, Analytics Engineering and AI Engineering.

Hybrid role with primary home-based work; occasional office days in Salford Quays (Manchester), Haywards Heath or Guernsey. You will collaborate with Data Science, Pricing, Data Engineering and Software Development to embed