Senior/Lead Data Engineer - Leading Technology AI Brand

  • MLR Associates
  • 06/03/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

  • Senior Engineer/Architect
  • Leading Technology AI Brand
  • SaaS - Platform based Technology Services
  • London/City
  • £70-120k salary + equity package

Our client a global technology leader is currently looking for a Senior/Lead Data Engineer to work with the dev team to guide the provision of Software Development for an exciting new AI product.

Key Responsibilities:-

  • Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
  • Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
  • Develop and manage batch and Real Time data pipelines.
  • Build and optimize systems for vector search, retrieval, and ML data pipelines.
  • Ensure data reliability, security, and governance across the platform.
  • Collaborate with AI and Back End engineering teams to support training, inference, and product features.
  • Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality frameworks.

Core Experience:-

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering or Back End engineering roles.
  • Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and distributed data systems.
  • Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred, but MySQL or similar is acceptable).
  • Experience with NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with vector databases used in modern AI systems.
  • Strong programming experience in Python.

Frameworks/Infrastructure:-

  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Airflow
  • Kafka
  • Elasticsearch/OpenSearch