AI Engineer - Financial Services Consulting

Datatech
Manchester, United Kingdom
Last month
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Education
Degree
Posted
20 May 2026 (Last month)

AI Engineers & Technical AI Leaders

Manchester | Hybrid

We're supporting a major consulting and technology organisation delivering AI and data transformation programmes across Financial Services and Banking

The focus is applied AI engineering, building production grade AI solutions across banking, risk, fraud, automation and enterprise platforms.

Hiring across multiple levels, from Engineers through to senior technical leadership.

What you'll be doing

• Building AI-enabled platforms and intelligent workflows

• Working with LLMs, RAG pipelines and embedding models

• Developing scalable backend services and AI integrations

• Collaborating across engineering, architecture and business teams

• Supporting AI deployment, governance and operational rollout

Environment

Python, SQL

LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG

LangChain, LangGraph, Agent frameworks

Vector databases, FastAPI, APIs

AWS, Azure, GCP or Databricks

CI/CD, MLOps and LLMOps

Requirements

• Strong software or data engineering foundations

• Experience delivering AI or AI-enabled solutions

• Exposure to cloud and modern data platforms

• Financial Services or regulated industry experience essential

• Strong communication and stakeholder skills

Open to candidates from Engineer through to Senior Manager level.

If you're open to a confidential conversation about the market, please message me directly.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #RAG #AgenticAI #Python #DataEngineering #MLOps #Banking #FinancialServices #LondonTech #ManchesterTech #ScotlandTech

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