Senior/Lead Data Engineer - Leading Technology AI Brand

Senior Engineer/Architect Leading Technology AI Brand SaaS - Platform based Technology Services London/City £70-120k salary + equity package Our client a global technology leader is currently looking for a Senior/Lead Data Engineer to work with the dev team to guide the provision of Software Development for an exciting new AI product. Key Responsibilities:- Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads. Develop and manage batch and Real Time data pipelines. Build and optimize systems for vector search, retrieval, and ML data pipelines. Ensure data reliability, security, and governance across the platform. Collaborate with AI and Back End engineering teams to support training, inference, and product features. Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality frameworks. Core Experience:- 7+ years of experience in data engineering or Back End engineering roles. Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and distributed data systems. Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred, but MySQL or similar is acceptable). Experience with NoSQL databases. Experience with vector databases used in modern AI systems. Strong programming experience in Python. Frameworks/Infrastructure:- Apache Spark Apache Airflow Kafka Elasticsearch/OpenSearch ..... full job details .....