ML Engineer

ML Engineer

London – Hybrid, 3 days per week in office

Up to £85,000

VIQU are partnering with a leading financial services organisation undergoing a significant data and technology transformation, building out its Machine Learning capability across the business. They are seeking an ML Engineer to build, deploy and operate production-grade ML solutions, working closely with Data Scientists to take models from development through to reliable production environments. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on ML pipelines, productionisation, deployment and ongoing model lifecycle management within a modern Databricks environment.

Key Responsibilities of the ML Engineer

Build and automate end-to-end ML pipelines covering feature engineering, model training, scoring and deployment

Productionise models developed by Data Scientists, transforming notebooks and prototypes into modular, tested and production-ready code

Develop scalable ML solutions using Python, PySpark, Databricks and MLflow

Deploy machine learning models into batch and real-time environments through APIs, scheduled workflows and production pipelines

Manage model versioning, promotion and rollback throughout the ML lifecycle

Implement monitoring and observability across production models, including model and data drift, performance alerts and logging

Develop automated retraining processes to maintain model performance and reliability

Work closely with Data Engineering and Platform teams on CI/CD integration, compute optimisation and secure deployment patterns

Maintain strong engineering standards across testing, documentation, code quality, reproducibility and operational reliability

Key Experience Required of the ML Engineer

Strong commercial experience as an ML Engineer, with a clear focus on engineering and productionising machine learning models

Strong hands-on development skills across Python, PySpark and SQL

Commercial experience working with Databricks, MLflow and Delta Lake

Proven experience building and operating distributed data and machine learning pipelines

Experience taking Data Science models from notebooks or development environments into production

Strong understanding of model deployment patterns, model lifecycle management and production ML environments

Experience implementing model monitoring, data/model drift detection, logging and performance monitoring

Exposure to CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Experience with containerisation, APIs and batch or real-time model deployment

Ability to collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Platform teams whilst remaining firmly focused on ML engineering

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