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Director of Engineering
City of London
£130000 - £150000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentCity of London, London
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Director of Product Engineering
Up to £150,000 + benefits
London
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-growth AI SaaS company where you can take ownership of building and scaling a Product Engineering function that combines Data Science, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering and Application Development.
THE COMPANY:
Founded to help enterprises unlock the value of their first-party customer data, our client helps transform customer, behavioural and commercial data into actionable business intelligence. They are entering an exciting phase of growth as it evolves from project-led delivery to a scalable, repeatable product engineering model. This role will be central to shaping that transformation.
THE ROLE:
You will take ownership of the technical engineering capability, leading teams across Data Science, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering and Application Development while creating a scalable and repeatable delivery model.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and scaling a high-performing Product Engineering function across multiple technical disciplines.
- Leading technical architecture, solution design and engineering decisions for customer-facing AI and data products.
- Acting as a senior technical representative with enterprise clients and translating complex technical concepts into commercial outcomes.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Leading and scaling technical functions within consulting, SaaS or service-based environments.
- Managing multidisciplinary teams across Data Engineering, Data Science and Software Engineering.
- Remaining technically credible with strong understanding of modern data ecosystems, architecture and engineering best practices.
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary up to £150,000 depending on experience.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Senior AI Product Engineer
City of London
£120000 - £140000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentCity of London, London
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Senior AI Product Engineer
up to £140,000
London (Hybrid)
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an early-stage AI startup as one of its first engineering hires, taking ownership of a cutting-edge behavioural AI platform that is transforming how companies understand and engage with their customers.
THE COMPANY:
Our client is developing technology that helps their clients better understand not just what customers do, but why they make decisions. Their platform combines behavioural science and AI to provide actionable customer intelligence, enabling organisations to improve marketing, communications, customer support, and engagement strategies.
THE ROLE:
You will become the first senior individual contributor engineering hire, working closely with the VP of Product Engineering to build and scale the product from the ground up.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and shipping AI-powered products end-to-end using LLM technologies.
- Owning and scaling the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI application layer.
- Developing secure, production-grade systems including guardrails, evaluation frameworks, monitoring, caching, and token cost optimisation.
- Working across the stack, including backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and selective frontend development.
- Establishing engineering best practices around testing, delivery, architecture, and code quality.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Building and scaling production LLM-enabled products from 0-to-1.
- Full-stack software engineering with strong backend expertise.
- Product ownership, architecture, and independent decision-making.
- Modern technologies including TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, and API-first architectures.
- LLM evaluation, token optimisation, cost management, monitoring, and deployment best practices.
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary of up to £140,000 depending on experience.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Senior Analytics Engineer
London
£70000 - £85000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Analytics Engineer
London (Hybrid) | Up to £80,000
A fantastic opportunity to join a growing digital business where data plays a key role in driving commercial and product decisions. This position offers end-to-end ownership across analytics, engineering, and BI within a modern cloud environment.
The Company
A fast-scaling, customer-focused organisation investing heavily in its data platform. You’ll join a collaborative team with plenty of opportunity to influence data strategy and deliver real business impact.
The Role
- Build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines
- Develop scalable data models using dbt and BigQuery
- Create Python-based ingestion and automation processes
- Build dashboards and reporting solutions for business stakeholders
- Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and commercial teams
- Improve data quality, performance, and scalability across the platform
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Analytics Engineering or Data Engineering
- Hands-on experience with GCP, particularly BigQuery
- Strong dbt, SQL, and Python skills
- Experience building BI dashboards and reporting solutions
- Familiarity with Git and modern development practices
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
What They Offer
- Salary up to £80,000
- Hybrid working
- Modern cloud-based data stack
- High level of ownership and autonomy
- Excellent progression opportunities
- Please note that sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Chief Data Officer
London
£150000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Chief Data Officer
£160,000 – £180,000
London (Hybrid – 1 Day per Week in Office)
The Company
This is a high-growth, private equity-backed financial services organisation. As part of an ambitious growth strategy, the business is making significant investments across technology, data, and product, creating an exciting opportunity for a senior data leader to shape the future of the organisation’s data capabilities.
This is a critical executive appointment, with a mandate to modernise the data estate, enhance engineering capability, and maximise the impact of data across the end-to-end customer journey.
The Role
As Chief Data Officer, you will be responsible for defining and delivering the organisation’s data vision while leading a large-scale transformation of its data and analytics function. Working closely with the executive leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in establishing data as a strategic business asset.
Key responsibilities include:
- Reviewing and reshaping the current data function, operating model, and organisational structure.
- Defining and executing a long-term data strategy aligned to business growth objectives.
- Leading the design and implementation of a modern data platform, including data lake and warehousing capabilities.
- Building a scalable, self-service data environment that empowers teams to access and leverage data effectively.
- Driving improvements in data engineering, governance, architecture, and analytics capabilities.
- Partnering with product, technology, and business leaders to embed data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
- Leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity, accelerate software development, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Leading data initiatives focused on customer onboarding, personalisation, insight generation, and overall customer experience optimisation.
- Establishing best-in-class data practices, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term value creation.
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience operating in a senior data leadership role, ideally at Data Director, VP Data, or Chief Data Officer level.
- Strong background within a technology-driven or digitally enabled organisation.
- Demonstrated success building, scaling, or transforming enterprise-wide data functions.
- Deep understanding of data engineering, architecture, cloud platforms, analytics, and modern data ecosystems.
- Experience designing and implementing data lakes, cloud data platforms, and modern warehouse architectures.
- Strong track record of delivering self-service data and reporting capabilities that drive business adoption.
- Credibility operating at both strategic and technical levels, with the ability to challenge and influence stakeholders.
- Hands-on understanding of modern data technologies and engineering best practices.
- Experience with Azure and the Microsoft data ecosystem would be highly advantageous.
- Strong appreciation of AI, automation, and their application to software engineering productivity and business performance.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with architecture, engineering, product, and executive leadership teams.
- Commercially minded leader who can balance long-term strategy with practical execution.
- Experience within financial services, fintech, lending, payments, or another regulated environment would be beneficial.

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Senior ML Ops Engineer
London
£75000 - £85000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior MLOps Engineer
£75,000 – £85,000
London (1-2 days a week in office)
This is an opportunity to join a growing AI and data-driven organisation where your work will have a direct impact on the development and delivery of advanced machine learning solutions. You will play a key role in shaping scalable MLOps infrastructure, enabling AI products to operate reliably across a diverse client base while contributing to meaningful, real-world outcomes.
THE COMPANY
They are a mission-led technology business that uses data, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help organisations make better decisions. Their platform combines data engineering, AI, and predictive modelling to generate actionable insights at scale. As they continue to grow, they are investing heavily in their AI capabilities and platform infrastructure, creating an exciting environment for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges.
THE ROLE
As a Senior MLOps Engineer, you will join the platform engineering function, owning and evolving the infrastructure that underpins the organisation’s AI services
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Designing and maintaining scalable MLOps infrastructure that supports machine learning, NLP, knowledge representation, and AI applications.
- Deploying and managing machine learning models using Azure ML, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and associated cloud technologies.
- Building and maintaining production-grade orchestration pipelines for model training, inference, monitoring, and retraining.
- Developing CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and operational processes.
- Implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure platform reliability and performance.
- Driving best practice around Responsible AI, governance, transparency, and auditability.
- Collaborating with engineering, delivery, and consulting teams to support the adoption and scaling of AI solutions
- Other key responsibilities & selling points of role.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Senior MLOps Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience in MLOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
- Advanced Python development skills within production environments.
- Expertise with Azure-native MLOps tools, including model endpoints, pipelines, registries, environments, and compute resources.
- Experience deploying and supporting containerised workloads on Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices using Azure DevOps or similar tooling.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, or Pulumi.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience with orchestration platforms including Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or similar.
BENEFITS
The successful Senior MLOps Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £75,000 – £85,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Lead AI Engineer
London
£95000 - £115000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Lead AI Engineer
£95,000 – £115,000
King’s Cross, London (1-2 days a week in office)
This is an opportunity to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that create measurable business impact. You will work on high-value initiatives, building scalable AI solutions that are embedded directly into core business processes rather than standalone prototypes.
THE COMPANY
They are a well-established organisation investing heavily in AI innovation to transform business operations and deliver long-term value. Their focus is on deploying practical, scalable AI solutions that support real workflows and business outcomes. You will join a technology-driven environment where engineering excellence, collaboration, and innovation are highly valued.
THE ROLE
As a Lead AI Engineer, you will
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Own the technical direction, architecture, and implementation of AI systems end-to-end.
- Design and build LLM-powered and agent-based solutions from concept through to production.
- Establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and scalable frameworks across AI initiatives.
- Make key decisions on models, tooling, infrastructure, and system design.
- Ensure AI systems are robust, observable, secure, and production-ready through effective evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers working on AI projects.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Lead AI Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience delivering production-grade AI systems from design through deployment.
- Deep expertise in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), orchestration, prompting, and evaluation.
- Experience building agentic or multi-step AI systems.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals across APIs, system design, and cloud-based architecture.
- Ability to define technical direction and operate effectively in complex or evolving environments.
- Experience influencing engineering standards and best practices across multiple projects.
- Exposure to AI platforms, reusable frameworks, LLMOps/MLOps, or enterprise AI environments would be beneficial.
BENEFITS
The successful Lead AI Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £95,000 – £115,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Senior Software Developer
London
£110000 - £160000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentLondon
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Senior Software Developer
£110,000 – £160,000
London (5 days a week in office – no flex)
This is an opportunity for a Senior C# Full Stack Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team working on complex, data-intensive systems. You will have significant ownership over technical decisions, contribute to the design of scalable software solutions, and play a key role in delivering projects that have a direct impact on the business.
THE COMPANY
They are a technology-led investment business that leverages advanced analytics, automation, and software engineering to drive decision-making. With a collaborative and highly technical culture, they have grown steadily while maintaining a strong focus on quality, innovation, and employee retention. Engineers are given the autonomy to influence projects, contribute ideas, and work closely with stakeholders across the business.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Software Developer, you will build and enhance high-performance C#/.NET applications, working across greenfield projects, real-time data systems, and complex engineering challenges.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Designing, building, and optimising high-performance C#/.NET applications
- Leading the delivery of greenfield projects and enhancements to existing platforms
- Contributing to system architecture, design decisions, and performance optimization
- Developing scalable solutions that process and manage large volumes of data
- Collaborating with highly skilled engineers in a cross-functional environment
- Taking ownership of projects and contributing to ideas throughout the development lifecycle
- Mentor and support other developers while promoting engineering best practices
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Full-Stack Software Developer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET
- Experience building backend systems and full stack applications
- JavaScript and modern frontend frameworks
- A strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, architecture, and design principles
- Experience working with relational databases such as SQL Server or similar
- The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively
- A proactive approach to learning and professional development
- An interest in sports and a general understanding of how major sports are played and structured
BENEFITS
The successful Full-Stack Software Developer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £110,000 – £160,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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Martech Engineer
London
£45000 - £55000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Martech Engineer
£45,000 – £55,000
London or Brighton (2 days a week in office)
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing technology and data-focused team where you will build innovative marketing technology solutions, automation tools, and AI-powered products. You will play a key role in developing scalable solutions that help clients unlock insights, improve efficiency, and drive measurable business impact.
THE COMPANY
They are a leading digital consultancy operating at the intersection of marketing, technology, data, and AI. Their teams partner with a diverse portfolio of clients to solve complex business challenges through innovative technology solutions. With a collaborative and forward-thinking culture, they invest heavily in innovation, product development, and emerging technologies. The business offers exposure to global projects and the opportunity to work alongside specialists across multiple disciplines.
THE ROLE
As a Martech Engineer, you will build AI-powered tools, cloud-based data solutions, and automation products using GCP, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern AI frameworks.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Design, develop, and maintain marketing technology products, automation solutions, and AI-powered tools.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business challenges and build scalable technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain API integrations, data pipelines, and cloud-based applications.
- Support the ongoing enhancement of proprietary products and internal platforms.
- Build secure, reliable, and reusable solutions using modern engineering practices.
- Contribute to technical architecture, innovation initiatives, and product strategy.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across existing applications and tools.
- Work closely with technical and non-technical teams to deliver impactful projects.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Martech Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud technologies.
- Experience developing applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.
- Knowledge of serverless architectures and modern software engineering practices.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI capabilities into products and workflows.
- Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, or similar technologies.
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders.
- Interest or exposure to digital marketing channels such as SEO, paid media, content, or analytics.
Desirable experience:
- ETL/ELT tools and data integration processes.
- BigQuery or other cloud data warehouse technologies.
- Data visualisation and dashboard development.
- Marketing technology, analytics, or data-focused environments.
BENEFITS
The successful Martech Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £45,000 – £55,000 – depending on experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

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