Vallum Associates

Gen AI Data Engineer - Pyspark/Python

London

Posted 11 days ago

Early applicant

Contract

The Role: GenAI Data Engineer Location: London (or) Edinburgh, UK Position Type: Contract Inside IR35 Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 2 Days Onsite

Job Description:

Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Strong experience with PySpark, distributed data processing, and largescale ETL/ELT pipelines. Strong SQL expertise including star/snowflake schema design, indexing strategies, writing optimized queries, and implementing CDC, SCD Type 1/2/3 patterns for reliable data warehousing. Advanced proficiency in Python for data engineering, automation, and ML/GenAI integration. Hands‑on expertise with AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Bedrock / custom model hosting). Practical experience with GenAI/LLM model creation, finetuning, benchmarking, and evaluation. Solid understanding of RAG architectures, embeddings, vector stores, and LLM evaluation methods. Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets (documents, logs, text, images). Familiarity with scalable data storage solutions (Delta Lake, Parquet, Redshift, DynamoDB). Understanding model optimization techniques (quantization, distillation, inference optimization). Strong capability to debug, tune, and optimize distributed systems and AI pipelines.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: Pyspark, Python, SQL,AWS, GenAI