Lead MLE, Azure – Legal Sector

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Do you want to productionise end-to-end enterprise GenAI systems?

Have you built scalable ML platforms and MLOps infrastructure in production?

Are you ready to establish ML Engineering capability inside a business heavily investing in AI?


A large UK professional services organisation is building out its ML Engineering capability and hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to help shape the function from the ground up.

This is a hands-on role focused on production AI systems, MLOps, cloud ML infrastructure, and enterprise GenAI deployment. Current projects include large-scale document AI workflows using LLMs to process and structure complex documents.


Key responsibilities:

• Productionise LLM and GenAI systems

• Build scalable MLOps and deployment pipelines

• Develop AI infrastructure in Azure and Databricks

• Create data pipelines for enterprise AI workflows

• Work closely with DS teams and business stakeholders


Key details:

• £90k + ~10% bonus

• Essentially remote across the UK

• 35-hour week with flexible hours

• Stack: Azure ML, AI Foundry, Databricks, Python, FastAPI

• 12-month FTC with strong chance of permanent conversion

• Cannot sponsor


Requirements:

• 7+ years across MLE/MLOps/Data Engineering/SWE

• Production ML deployment experience

• LLM/NLP/GenAI exposure

• Strong stakeholder management and independent delivery skills


Interested? Please apply below.

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Job Description:

Do you want to productionise end-to-end enterprise GenAI systems?

Have you built scalable ML platforms and MLOps infrastructure in production?

Are you ready to establish ML Engineering capability inside a business heavily investing in AI?

A large UK professional services organisation is building out its ML Engineering capability and hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to help shape the function from the ground up.

This is a hands-on role focused on production AI systems, MLOps, cloud ML infrastructure, and enterprise GenAI deployment. Current projects include large-scale document AI workflows using LLMs to process and structure complex documents.

Key responsibilities:

• Productionise LLM and GenAI systems

• Build scalable MLOps and deployment pipelines

• Develop AI infrastructure in Azure and Databricks

• Create data pipelines for enterprise AI workflows

• Work closely with DS teams and business stakeholders

Key details:

• £90k + ~10% bonus

• Essentially remote across the UK

• 35-hour week with flexible hours

• Stack: Azure ML, AI Foundry, Databricks, Python, FastAPI

• 12-month FTC with strong chance of permanent conversion

• Cannot sponsor

Requirements:

• 7+ years across MLE/MLOps/Data Engineering/SWE

• Production ML deployment experience

• LLM/NLP/GenAI exposure

• Strong stakeholder management and independent delivery skills

Interested? Please apply below.

Posted: May 21st, 2026