AI Data Engineer

Ideagen plc
Nottingham, UK
10 days ago
Apply on www.careerjet.co.uk
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Big Data Cloud Engineering Data Governance Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Systems Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Operational Databases SQL Databases
+5 more
Management of Software Versions System Availability Data Management Machine Learning Operations Data Pipelines

Job description

As a Senior AI Data Engineer, you’ll be at the centre of this transformation, building the data platforms, pipelines, and processes that power our AI and machine learning capabilities. You’ll play a key role in turning complex, large-scale data into trusted, AI-ready assets that support intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and next-generation AI products. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful AI challenges while helping shape the technical foundations of our AI strategy. You’ll collaborate with AI engineers, software engineers, and product teams to solve complex problems, influence technical direction, and ensure our data platforms are reliable, scalable, and built for the future. Alongside hands-on technical delivery, you’ll support and mentor engineers across the team, helping to raise engineering standards and drive 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

About the company

Ideagen is the invisible force behind many things we rely on every day - from keeping airplanes soaring in the sky, to ensuring the food on our tables is safe, to helping doctors and nurses care for the sick. So, when you think of Ideagen, think of it as the silent teammate that’s always working behind the scenes to help those people who make our lives safer and better. Everyday millions of people are kept safe using Ideagen software. We have offices all over the world including America, Australia, Malaysia and India with people doing lots of different and exciting jobs. We’re building a future-ready team, and AI is part of how we work smarter. If you’re curious, adaptable and open to using AI to improve how you work, you’ll thrive at Ideagen! What is next? If your application meets the requirements for this role, our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps. To ensure a flexible and inclusive process, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments by contacting us at . All matters will be treated with strict confidence. At Ideagen, we value the importance of work-life balance and welcome candidates seeking flexible arrangements. If this is something you are interested in, please let us know during the application process. Enhance your career and make the world a safer place!

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on www.careerjet.co.uk
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

3:28 min

Defining big data and machine learning fundamentals

Ayon Roy · LIVE

3:43 min

The enduring legacy of the amazon S3 storage API

Chris Heilmann +3 · LIVE

2:37 min

Classifying and anonymizing data during system design

Reto Kaeser · LIVE

3:03 min

Career evolution in data engineering and AI platforms

Maria Apazoglou · Coffee With Developers

2:10 min

Why organizations combine big data and machine learning

Ayon Roy · LIVE

1:59 min

Evolving roles in AI driven software teams

Ignacio Riesgo Ignacio Riesgo +1 · World Congress 2024

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all