Senior AI Developer

Description

The role centres on building, deploying and maintaining machine learning and AI solutions that address concrete business problems for clients. You will work with senior data scientists, engineers and consultants across the whole lifecycle, from data preparation and model building to production rollout and monitoring.

The company works with clients in both the public and private sectors, delivering everything from application development and cloud migration to programme delivery and service operations.

Responsibilities

• Help design and build data science and AI components from requirements that have already been defined.
• Apply established data science and machine learning methods to analyse data and solve business problems, with guidance from senior team members.
• Build and test machine learning models, help put them into production, and contribute to designing and maintaining MLOps pipelines that scale and are easy to maintain.
• Talk with clients and internal teams to pin down requirements, and explain technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Apply responsible AI principles and help keep AI and ML work within governance and compliance standards.
• Mentor and guide junior data scientists and engineers.

Requirements

• You must be eligible for security clearance.
• Proficiency in Python and C is required. SQL or R is a bonus.
• Experience with cloud AI services such as Azure ML, AWS SageMaker or GCP Vertex AI.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Practical knowledge of techniques such as regression, decision trees, random forest, XGBoost, k-means, anomaly detection and time series forecasting.
• A working understanding of model evaluation and explainability, including overfitting, bias and cross-validation.
• Experience building end-to-end observability and monitoring for AI systems.
• Experience working with large, complex or messy datasets.
• Knowledge of the public sector, including its challenges and opportunities, its data, and its regulations and compliance requirements. This is listed under Knowledge of Public Sector in the posting and is not separated as optional.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• A commitment to continuous learning and development.

Conditions

Hybrid working, with some flexible working arrangements.

The company provides an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process. Applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria can opt in to a Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme.

Benefits

• 25 days' holiday.
• Private medical healthcare through Vitality.
• Pension contribution and life assurance.
• Support for professional certifications as part of learning and development.
• Retail discounts covering restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure, and health and well-being services.
• Access to employee resource groups that bring together diverse backgrounds to connect, learn and support one another.
• The company ranked 5th in the UK Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards for 2024.
• The company is known for low bureaucracy, high agility and flexibility, and was founded in the UK through the 2017 acquisition of Hunter Macdonald. It now has over 7,400 employees and offices in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands and Vietnam.