Data Scientist/AI Engineer

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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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