Senior AI Data Engineer - Build Scalable AI Data Platforms

Damstra Technology; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits at Ideagen

Job summary

Ideagen is on a mission to embed AI at the heart of its products and empower data-driven decision making. This Senior AI Data Engineer role in Nottingham focuses on designing and scaling data pipelines, creating AI-ready datasets, and enabling intelligent automation across product platforms.

You will collaborate with AI and software teams, drive data governance and reliability, and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building, scaling, and supporting production data pipelines and data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Python and SQL, with a track record of developing high-quality, maintainable solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience operating production systems, resolving complex issues, and improving platform reliability.
• Strong understanding of data quality, governance, lineage, security, and auditability.
• Experience or strong interest in AI, machine learning, MLOps or large language model technologies.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines that power AI models, machine learning workflows, and intelligent product capabilities.
• Owning the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of production data platforms.
• Developing ETL/ELT solutions using Python, SQL, AWS, and modern cloud-based data technologies.
• Implementing robust monitoring, alerting, testing, and data quality processes to ensure trusted datasets.
• Driving best practices in data governance, lineage, security, and dataset versioning.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative AI and data solutions.
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering standards, technical direction, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

MLOps

AI/ML concepts

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

S3

Lambda

Glue

Athena

Job description

Ideagen is on a mission to embed AI at the heart of its products and empower data-driven decision making. This Senior AI Data Engineer role in Nottingham focuses on designing and scaling data pipelines, creating AI-ready datasets, and enabling intelligent automation across product platforms.

You will collaborate with AI and software teams, drive data governance and reliability, and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards.