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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Manchester, Greater Manchester💼 Full-time🗓 2026-01-08 → 2026-08-04

Core

End-to-end design, delivery, and operation of production machine learning models on an enterprise Lakehouse platform to drive strategic decision-making.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps focus)

Builds

Production ML models and MLOps infrastructure on Databricks

Domain

Enterprise data strategy and machine learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, statistical methods, SQL, Python, PySpark, MLOps, model governance, automated validation testing, bias assessment, documentation, traceability

Preferred skills

Cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder requirement analysis, ethical and privacy management, performance monitoring, root cause analysis, team education, emerging ML trends

Technologies

Databricks, PySpark, Python, SQL

Responsibilities

Lead design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of ML solutions; Define and embed MLOps best practices; Develop automated validation tests; Assess stakeholder requirements and manage ethical/privacy considerations; Establish reliability criteria and KPIs; Create and update model documentation; Ensure dataset traceability and manage audit requests; Collaborate on aligned solutions; Identify root causes of production issues; Educate teams on ML techniques; Propose leveraging new ML capabilities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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