IGA Talent Solutions
Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Data & AI Engineer
IGA Talent is partnered with a leading technology-enabled sustainability consultancy to appoint a Senior Data & AI Engineer.
This is a unique opportunity to join a growing organisation operating at the intersection of AI, data engineering, and sustainability. You'll play a key role in developing innovative AI-driven solutions and data platforms used by institutional investors, corporates, and other global organisations to support complex sustainability and investment-related decision-making.
Are you an experienced Data or AI Engineer with strong Python and cloud engineering expertise?
Do you enjoy building production-grade AI solutions, working with large language models, and developing scalable data infrastructure?
Are you looking for a role where you can influence technical direction while seeing the direct impact of your work on clients and end users?
If so, this could be an excellent next step in your career.
The Opportunity
Joining a highly collaborative and entrepreneurial team, you'll work across both product development and client delivery, helping to build AI-powered assessment tools, scalable data infrastructure, and robust evaluation frameworks. This is a hands-on engineering role offering genuine ownership and the opportunity to shape the future direction of a growing technology platform.
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Working closely with consultants, domain specialists, and senior leadership, you'll help transform complex methodologies into repeatable, auditable technical solutions that deliver meaningful insights for clients.
In this role, you will:
- Build and maintain AI-powered assessment and information extraction pipelines
- Develop and own data models and ingestion processes for large and complex datasets
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Design evaluation frameworks and quality assurance processes to improve AI reliability and performance
- Contribute to backend development, APIs, deployment, monitoring, and platform scalability
- Drive engineering best practices and help define technical standards as the team grows
- Support and mentor junior engineers while contributing to a high-performing engineering culture
Who we're looking for:
- Over 4 years' experience in software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Strong Python development skills and experience building production-grade data pipelines
- Practical experience working with Large Language Models, including prompt engineering, evaluation, and production deployment
- Strong SQL, relational data modelling, and data architecture capabilities
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with high levels of ownership and autonomy
- Experience within financial services, investment management, sustainability, ESG, or document processing environments would be advantageous
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Why this opportunity stands out:
- Work on meaningful, real-world AI applications where quality and accuracy are critical
- Direct exposure to both technology development and client-facing delivery
- Opportunity to influence product strategy and technical direction from an early stage
- Collaborative, flat-structure environment with strong access to senior leadership
- Hybrid working model with flexibility and autonomy
- Competitive salary, discretionary bonus, and equity participation potential
- Excellent long-term progression opportunities as the business and engineering team continue to grow
If this sounds like a fit, reach out to Oliver Clark for a confidential conversation via LinkedIn or at oclark@igatalent.com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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