Contract Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Python, GenAI/RAG - Inside IR35 - £700/day - Hybrid

RecOps is partnered with a leading consultancy looking for an experienced Lead Machine Learning Engineer to support an insurance client, leading the design and delivery of production AI and Generative AI systems.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, combining Python engineering with architecture, technical decision-making and mentoring other engineers.

The role pays up to £700 per day, inside IR35 and requires one day per week in central London

Key Skills Required:

• Strong hands-on Python software engineering, including Back End services and APIs

• Extensive experience delivering production ML, LLM and RAG applications

• Agentic AI, vector databases, retrieval and LLM orchestration

• Technical leadership, solution architecture and mentoring engineers

• Model evaluation, monitoring, guardrails and production support

• Cloud experience (ideally Azure), Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD

Desirable:

• FastAPI, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex or MLflow

• LLMOps/MLOps and model fine-tuning experience

• Insurance, financial services or other regulated industry experience

Please apply now for immediate consideration.