Gen AI Data Engineer - Pyspark/Python
- Posted 28 April 2026
- LocationLondon
- Job type Contract
- Discipline Technology
Job description
The Role: GenAI Data Engineer
Location: London (or) Edinburgh, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 2 Days Onsite
Job Description:
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Strong experience with PySpark, distributed data processing, and large scale ETL/ELT pipelines.
Strong SQL expertise including star/snowflake schema design, indexing strategies, writing optimized queries, and implementing CDC, SCD Type 1/2/3 patterns for reliable data warehousing.
Advanced proficiency in Python for data engineering, automation, and ML/GenAI integration.
Hands‑on expertise with AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Bedrock / custom model hosting).
Practical experience with GenAI/LLM model creation, fine tuning, benchmarking, and evaluation.
Solid understanding of RAG architectures, embeddings, vector stores, and LLM evaluation methods.
Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets (documents, logs, text, images).
Familiarity with scalable data storage solutions (Delta Lake, Parquet, Redshift, DynamoDB).
Understanding model optimization techniques (quantization, distillation, inference optimization).
Strong capability to debug, tune, and optimize distributed systems and AI pipelines.
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
Pyspark, Python, SQL,AWS, GenAI
