MLOps Engineer

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 16/10/2026

Role: MLOps Engineer- ContractLocation: London |Hybrid- 3/4 days in client office.Industry: Financial Services / BankingStart Date: Nov 2026Agreed Contract Rate (ACR): £308.33 per dayPayroll provider:RockfordPayroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay Daily Rate: £400 Inside IR35Daily Rate breakdownTraditional Daily Rate: Up to £400 per day, dependenton experienceEquivalent Annual Salary: £71,531.56 + £8,633.12holiday pay

The Role

Weare looking for experienced MLOps Engineers to join a leadingglobal financial services organisation, working on cutting-edge Generative AI,machine learning and intelligent automation solutions. This is an excitingopportunity to design, develop and deploy production-ready AI agents, advancedretrieval systems and scalable machine learning pipelines within a complexenterprise environment. You will play a key role in delivering secure, reliableand high-performing AI solutions, working across MLOps, cloud infrastructure,data engineering and large language model technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deployproduction-ready AI agents and copilot solutions, taking ownership frominitial prototype through to production.
  

• Build advancedretrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, combining knowledgegraphs, vector search and retrieval optimisation techniques.
  

• Develop agent memory andcontext management capabilities to support accurate, secure andpersonalised AI interactions.
  

• Design, build and maintainscalable machine learning training and inference pipelines usingDatabricks.
  

• Develop and productionisepredictive ML models for propensity scoring, next-best-actionrecommendations, churn prediction and cross-selling opportunities.
  

• Implement batch and real-timeinference solutions, optimising performance, latency and modelexplainability.
  

• Build and maintain AIevaluation frameworks, including automated testing, regression testing,hallucination detection and response quality monitoring.
  

• Develop multi-agent workflowsand integrate enterprise systems using Model Context Protocol (MCP) andagent-to-agent (A2A) communication.
  

• Monitor production AIsolutions, incorporating user feedback to improve model performance,retrieval accuracy and reliability.
  

• Deploy and manage AI/MLapplications across AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
  

• Ensure solutions meetenterprise security, governance, model risk and regulatory requirements.
  

• Collaborate with engineering,product and business stakeholders to deliver scalable AI solutions.
  

Experience & Skills Required

• Strong hands-on experience in MLOps, machine learningengineering or production AI development .
  

• Proficiency in Python andexperience developing, deploying and maintaining machine learning modelsin production.
  

• Experience building andmanaging end-to-end ML pipelines, including feature engineering, modeltraining, deployment and monitoring.
  

• Practical experience with Generative AI, Large LanguageModels (LLMs), RAG and AI agent architectures .
  

• Experience working withDatabricks and large-scale data processing frameworks.
  

• Strong understanding of vectordatabases, embeddings, retrieval techniques and model evaluation.
  

• Experience developing APIs andintegrating AI/ML solutions with enterprise systems.
  

• Hands-on experience with AWSand/or Azure cloud environments.
  

• Knowledge of CI/CD, automatedtesting, containerisation and production deployment practices.
  

• Strong understanding of modelperformance monitoring, observability, security and operational resilience.
  

• Experience working within Agiledevelopment environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with Graph RAG, knowledge graphs andadvanced retrieval architectures .
  

• Knowledge of agent memoryframeworks, including episodic and semantic memory.
  

• Hands-on experience with ModelContext Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) frameworks.
  

• Experience with LLM evaluationtechniques, LLM-as-a-judge, groundedness testing and hallucinationdetection.
  

• Familiarity with Snowflake,Kubernetes, Splunk, Confluence and Bitbucket.
  

• Experience buildingrecommendation engines, propensity models or next-best-action solutions.
  

• Knowledge of onlineexperimentation, A/B testing and feedback-driven model optimisation.
  

• Experience with modelgovernance, explainability, risk controls and responsible AI.
  

• Previous experience withinfinancial services, investment banking, payments or another highlyregulated environment.
  

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