Machine Learning Engineer

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 19,000 /year

Freelance

09-05-2025

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Job Specifications

Machine Learning Engineer Ray & Spark
Hybrid / London

Critical Skills: Machine Learning, Large scale computing, (Ray, Spark), Deep Learning, Ray, Real time systems, ML OPs, & Fraud/Risk

We are looking for an experienced hands-on Machine Learning Engineer to join a Fintech Giant in London. As the Machine Learning expert, you’ll be leading teams that are architecting and building complex systems on AWS infrastructure that will (literally) be industry changing.

The Role:
As the hands-on technical expert, you will lead the design and implementation on the project, building a roadmap that sets the direction and objectives for the ML system architecture.
You’ll be able to adapt standard machine learning techniques, raising standards within the teams to help them develop scalable systems and offer improvements that will help reduce technical / code / engineering debt.

Key Skills:
Extensive experience with Machine Learning and Spark/PySpark/Ray/Python
Recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining, artificial intelligence
Modern Parallel Computing; distributed clusters, multicore servers, GPU’s
Experience with developing machine learning models at scale
Developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java, Ideally with Python / shell script experience
Experience as technical leader, owning projects, defining & setting technical direction
Experience of architectural patterns of large-scale software applications
If you have experience around Fraud, Risk or similar it would be highly beneficial

The role is working for a leading Fintech organisation that prides itself on both the quality of their work and the culture within the business.

This will be a 6 month contract to start, but could extend further as the company is going through a number of changes as they evolve and will need great people on board to succeed.

About the Company

Simon James IT is an international specialist IT consultancy based in the City of London. Coming from successful consultancy backgrounds we have taken the positive elements of large scale recruitment and built a business model to provide a personalized solution for your recruitment needs. We offer a dedicated service to ensure you get the best possible candidates within both your timescales and budget. Our business has grown organically from building solid foundations within niche technology areas and working closely wit... Know more