Job Title : AI Engineer / Data Scientist
Location : Sheffield or Birmingham - 3 days per week in the office - only candidates within commutable distance will be considered by the client
Salary / Rate : £500 per day inside IR35
Start Date : 29 / 01 / 2026
Job Type : Contract - 6 months
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled AI Engineer / Data Scientist to join their team for an initial 6-month contract.
Job Responsibilities / Objectives
* The Onboarding and Know Your Customer Value Stream incorporates onboarding products, platforms, and a delivery capability particularly suited to client-aligned agile delivery at pace.
* They are investing heavily across these domains with a strategic focus on increasing adoption of AI capabilities through our flagship AI journeys, day-to-day engineering and overall ways of working.
* To accelerate achieving our vision, we are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join the Client Services and OBKYC Technology group.
* Building production-ready models to drive content extraction and classification from images and text-based sources.
* Working closely with business teams to understand requirements and iteratively design and develop solutions.
* Collaborative with product managers, technical teams.
* Create, test and iterate new and existing products and features.
* Designing and building Python / ML / OCR-based components.
* Not only supporting the development of the product, but also the full lifecycle including the deployment, testing and production support of the application.
Required Skills / Experience
* Strong experience in Document AI / Intelligent document processing using traditional models and Generative AI - particularly in using open source models for achieving business outcomes.
* Experience delivering to production in Python, with a focus on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, image processing and OCR all additional positives.
* Experience with some of the following frameworks - TensorFlow, Pytorch, Hugging face, Spacy, OpenCV, Regex or equivalents.
* Experience delivering safe code to production, focusing on cybersecurity and resilience of the application and APIs.
Desirable Skills / Experience
* Experience using PostgreSQL for data storage and management.
* Proficiency with Azure core services like Azure Virtual Machines and experience with one or all of Azure CLI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure DevOps.
* Experience delivering in teams releasing at a high cadence to production.
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