Location: Nottingham, UK (Hybrid)

Employment Type: 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract / Contract Inside IR35

Start Date: Immediate

We are seeking a Machine Learning / MLOps Engineer to help build, deploy, and support production-ready machine learning solutions on Azure and Databricks.

Working closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, and business stakeholders, you will be responsible for operationalising ML models, building scalable data and ML pipelines, implementing monitoring, and supporting the end-to-end ML lifecycle. This role will initially span MLOps, data engineering, and platform activities while the capability continues to mature.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy and operationalise machine learning models developed by Data Science teams.
• Build and maintain ML and data pipelines using Python, PySpark, SQL, Azure, and Databricks.
• Develop and manage Databricks Workflows, Jobs, MLflow, and model deployment processes.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and Git-based development practices.
• Build monitoring and alerting for model performance, data quality, workflow failures, and operational health.
• Manage model lifecycle activities including versioning, deployment, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with platform, cloud, DevOps, security, and operational teams to ensure scalable and secure deployments.
• Create deployment documentation, runbooks, and support processes.