Manager, AI Engineer, AI & Data, AI Scaling & Transformation, Manchester

Your role as a practitioner in AI&D involves delivering AI/ML Engineering on client projects. You are encouraged to devise innovative solutions to help clients address their biggest data challenges, including developing modern analytics platforms. AI/ML Engineers develop, deploy, and maintain AI/ML systems, leveraging ML algorithms and deep learning techniques to build models that solve business problems using data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. They also monitor and optimise model performance. In this role, you will have responsibility for deliverables and client stakeholder relationships, delivering solutions using agile methodologies while working in multi-disciplinary teams across various industries, subject matters, and locations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with client stakeholders and internal teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust AI solutions.
• Design, develop, and implement end-to-end AI pipelines, including data acquisition, pre-processing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Develop and implement AI/machine learning models where appropriate, supporting use cases such as prediction, classification, automation, and insight generation.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, datasets, and data models to support analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements and trends in AI, continuously exploring and evaluating new technologies and approaches.
• Optimise data processing, storage, and model performance for scalability and efficiency.

Your professional experience:

• Hands-on experience in developing and deploying AI solutions in a professional setting.
• Experience building data pipelines and working with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with MLOps tools and best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and governance.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and/or similar languages.
• Proven experience with popular AI/ML libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with Generative AI and/or machine learning frameworks (e.g., Langchain) is desirable.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, deep learning architectures, and statistical modelling techniques.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their AI/ML services.
• Proficiency in data manipulation and analysis using SQL and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop).
• Experience with ETL, data pipelines, and automated workflows for moving and processing data.
• Adherence to data governance, security, and privacy standards throughout the development lifecycle, including metadata management, data quality, and lineage tracking.
• Knowledge of distributed computing techniques like parallel processing, streaming, and batch workflow orchestration.

Location and Working:

You will be based in Manchester with a hybrid working model, balancing local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites, and remote work. Check with the recruiter for specific working requirements. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.