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Data Scientist (contract)

Data Science and AI Contractor
ID: #1871
Posted: 2026-03-19
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Job Title: Data Scientist Job Location: Canary Wharf (Hybrid- 4 days in office, 1 from home) Contract Length: Until 31/12/2026 Industry: Oil and Energy, Tech Working Hours: 8 per day/40 per week Role Overview: • Design, develop, and maintain production-grade AI applications and services using modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, observability, cloud-native design). • Define and implement foundational platforms and tools (e.g., conversational bots, AI-powered search, unstructured data processing, GenBI) that are reusable and scalable across the enterprise. • Participate in cross functional team initiatives-embedded projects with business stakeholders-to rapidly build and deploy AI solutions that solve high-priority business problems. • Evaluate and integrate existing AI tools, frameworks, and APIs (e.g., LLMs, vector DBs, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents) into robust applications. • Champion automation in workflows-from data management ingestion and pre-processing to evaluation, to model integration and deployment. • Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to ensure end-to-end delivery and reliability of AI products. • Stay current with emerging AI technologies but prioritize practical application and delivery over experimental research. • Contribute to the internal knowledge base, tooling libraries, and documentation to scale AI engineering best practices across the organization. What you will have: • Professional software engineering experience: ability to independently design and ship complex systems in production. • Strong programming skills in Python (preferred), Java, or similar languages, with experience in developing microservices, APIs, and backend systems. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance engineering rigor with delivery speed. • Solid understanding of software architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and modern DevOps practices. • Experience integrating machine learning models into production systems (e.g., LLMs via APIs, fine-tuning, RAG patterns, embeddings, agents and crew of agents etc.). • Ability to move quickly while maintaining code quality, test coverage, and operational excellence. Preferred: • Familiarity with AI/ML tools such as LangChain, Haystack, Hugging Face, Weaviate, or similar ecosystems. • Hands-on experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation applications, AI agents and systems built around them. • Experience using GenAI frameworks such as LlamaIndex, Crew AI, AutoGen, or similar agentic/LLM orchestration toolkits. • Exposure to working with unstructured data (documents, conversations, images) and transforming it into usable structured formats. • Experience building chatbots, search systems, or generative AI interfaces. • Background in working within platform engineering or internal developer tools teams. • Prior experience working in an embedded (forward-deployed) team model with business stakeholders. • Experience building production grade, reliable AI applications We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Hard Skills 11
Skill Source Confidence
Fine-tuning Models llm_hard
100%
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) llm_hard
100%
Model Deployment llm_hard
100%
Java llm_hard
100%
Python llm_hard
100%
Large Language Models (LLMs) llm_hard
100%
Model Optimization llm_hard
80%
Data Wrangling llm_hard
80%
Data Pipelines llm_hard
80%
Prompt Engineering llm_hard
80%
MLOps llm_hard
80%
Soft Skills 14
Skill Source Confidence
Problem-Solving llm_soft
100%
Analytical Thinking llm_soft
100%
Documentation llm_soft
100%
Collaboration llm_soft
100%
Cross-Functional Communication llm_soft
100%
Learning Agility llm_soft
80%
Attention to Detail llm_soft
80%
Quality Focus llm_soft
80%
Self-Motivation llm_soft
80%
Proactiveness llm_soft
80%
Technical Writing llm_soft
80%
Decision-Making llm_soft
80%
Creative Problem Solving llm_soft
80%
Adaptability llm_soft
80%
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