Job Description
Machine Learning Engineering Manager
We're building a new ML Engineering team and are looking for a strong technical lead to help take our machine learning capability from proof-of-concept to fully scaled, production-ready solutions.
Sitting within our Group & Enterprise Services (GES) function, this role is part of the Data vertical and reports into the Head of Data Engineering. You'll be hands-on with cloud infrastructure, APIs and deployment pipelines, working mainly in GCP Vertex AI (essential) and Azure (desirable). Your focus will be enabling data scientists to deploy high-impact models reliably and at scale.
You'll combine leadership, architectural thinking and deep engineering skills to shape the ML platform, coach engineers and deliver robust, enterprise-ready ML services.
What you'll do
Lead, mentor and develop a small team of ML Engineers
Oversee delivery of ML capabilities and support planning and capacity needs
Shape architecture from early design through to production
Build and maintain Python APIs (Flask/FastAPI) for model serving
Develop infrastructure for real-time and batch deployments
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for models
Ensure code quality, engineering best practice and scalable cloud deployments
Collaborate with data scientists, platform engineers and developers
Support model lifecycle management, monitoring and automation
Break down solution designs into deliverables and milestones
What you'll bring
5+ years as an ML Engineer with strong Python engineering skills
Experience deploying and maintaining ML models in production (Vertex AI required)
Strong software engineering fundamentals: OOP, unit testing, TDD
Cloud experience (GCP, AWS or Azure) and IaC tools such as Terraform
Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows
Understanding of data science principles and taking research code to production
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently
Comfortable working in Agile teams
Clear communication, collaboration and a proactive, improvement-driven mindset
