MLOps Engineer - Productionize ML Pipelines (Hybrid)

Hastings Direct; Bexhill-on-Sea; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Bonus scheme

Life assurance & pension

Mental wellbeing programme

Job summary

Hastings Direct is seeking an MLOps Engineer to turn pricing models and data science work into reliable production workflows. You will collaborate with Pricing, Data Science, Data Engineering and ML Engineering to build testable, auditable pipelines in a regulated environment.

The role is hands-on, focusing on Python, SQL, automation and governance. You’ll own MLOps components while aligning with senior stakeholders on standards and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and experience building data or machine learning workflows.
• Good SQL skills and confidence working with structured datasets.
• Experience building reliable, reusable and maintainable code or pipelines.
• Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, especially supervised learning.
• Experience with Git, code review, testing and technical documentation.
• Exposure to cloud-based data or engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve and maintain machine learning pipelines used within Market Pricing.
• Productionise Python-based models, notebooks and data science workflows.
• Help move models from development into repeatable, tested and documented production processes.
• Improve how model workflows are tested, released, monitored and maintained.
• Investigate issues across data, model and pipeline workflows.
• Automate manual steps where this improves quality, speed or control.
• Support good engineering practices, including Git, code review, testing and documentation.
• Make sure pipelines and model workflows are traceable, auditable and safe to change.
• Work closely with Pricing, Data Science, Data Engineering, ML Engineering and governance stakeholders.

Skills

Python

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Test automation

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Job description

Hastings Direct is seeking an MLOps Engineer to turn pricing models and data science work into reliable production workflows. You will collaborate with Pricing, Data Science, Data Engineering and ML Engineering to build testable, auditable pipelines in a regulated environment.

The role is hands-on, focusing on Python, SQL, automation and governance. You’ll own MLOps components while aligning with senior stakeholders on standards and responsible AI practices.