Contract

Senior Data Engineer (AI & MLOps, AWS, Python)

Posted by Salt • Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom

📍 Tyne and Wear, England 🕒 January 29, 2026

About the Role

Senior Data Engineer (AI & MLOps) – Software – Newcastle/Hybrid or Remote

Day rate: £300 – £500 (Inside IR35)


Duration: 6 months


Start: ASAP

My new client is looking for a Senior Data Engineer with expertise in AI, MLOps, and AWS architecture to design and deliver production-grade machine learning pipelines. The ideal candidate will be passionate about bridging the gap between data science experimentation and scalable production systems, driving automation, and enabling faster innovation cycles.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain production-grade ML Ops pipelines to automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of machine learning models.

  • Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to reduce time-to-production for experiments and prototypes.

  • Design and optimize data wrangling and transformation workflows using Python.

  • Leverage AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, Lambda, SageMaker, RDS...
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