Job Title: Data Engineer Location: Knutsford (On site 3 days per week) Salary/Rate: Up to £400 per day (Inside IR35) Start Date: Immediate - contract until 31/12/2025 Company Introduction: An exciting opportunity is available for a highly skilled Data Engineer to join a leading organisation on a long-term project. Job Responsibilities/Objectives: Building and maintaining robust data pipelines to support analytics and Machine Learning workflows. Designing and implementing MLOps solutions to streamline model training, deployment, and monitoring. Collaborating with teams on continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes using GitLab and Jenkins. Supporting the development and deployment of AI and machine learning models using AWS services such as ECS and SageMaker. Developing front-end applications and tools using HTML, Streamlit, or Flask where required. Required Skills/Experience Strong proficiency in AWS Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and MLOps. Hands-on experience with cloud services including ECS and SageMaker. Excellent programming skills with Python, PySpark, and Big-Data ecosystems. Proficiency with MLOps tools such as MLflow, Airflow, Docker, and Kubernetes. Solid understanding of machine learning lifecycles and AI model deployment/monitoring. Desirable Skills/Experience Experience working with RESTful APIs and backend service integration. Knowledge of CI/CD practices using GitLab and Jenkins. Exposure to AI lifecycle management within large-scale environments. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills within data and AI engineering projects. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.