Principal AI Data Engineer

Principal AI Data EngineerCertain Advantage is hiring for a Principal AI Data Engineer based in London. This role is an initial contract until the end of the year and is hybrid, requiring 3 days per week onsite in London. You''ll be responsible for: Developing AI, GenAI and Agentic AI prototypes using Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Databricks Mosaic AI and MLflow. Building, optimising and evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using prompt engineering and embedding models. Designing and deploying AI agents using frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph and AutoGen. Delivering production-ready GenAI applications for commercial teams within Trading and Supply. Building scalable AI workflows on Databricks using Mosaic AI, MLflow, Genie and AgentBricks. Applying DevOps best practices through CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows and automated testing. Designing evaluation frameworks to benchmark, test and improve GenAI system performance and reliability. The Individual Strong expertise with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, DLT and MLflow. Deep knowledge of Large Language Models including GPT, Llama, Claude and Mistral. Experience building and deploying GenAI, RAG and Agentic AI solutions in enterprise environments. Strong programming skills in Python, SQL and/or Scala. Experience with Azure cloud technologies including Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry. Knowledge of Spark Structured Streaming, Autoloader and modern data engineering practices. ..... full job details .....