AI Engineer

Tatton Recruitment
South Bank, London, SE1 9PZ, United Kingdom
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10 Apr 2026 (Last week)
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AI Engineer - Databricks and Spark essential

London based.

Start in May until 31st Dec.

Certain Advantage are recruiting for an AI Engineer with hands on Databricks and Spark expertise. Industry experience in commodity or financial trading is strongly preferred.

This is a fantastic opportunity to partner with traders and trading analysts to rapidly build AI‑powered analytics over market pricing and fundamentals data, using Databricks and Spark to deliver value at speed.

Someone with familiarity in market microstructure, supply‑demand fundamentals, risk management with confident collaboration and engagement skills with trading teams would be ideal.

Responsibilities to include

Design and ship AI‑driven analytics for front‑office use (seasonality, correlation, regression, forecasting, scenario modelling).

Build reusable and scalable data pipelines in Databricks (PySpark/Spark, Delta/Unity Catalog), optimizing cost, reliability, and performance.

Run statistical/econometric analyses on large datasets (e.g., market & fundamental time series data).

Collaborate directly with traders/analysts—translate ambiguous questions into shippable solutions; communicate insights clearly.

Implement LLM/agentic workflows: prompt engineering, LangGraph orchestration, MCP integrations, tool calling, retrieval, and guardrails.

Productionize solutions with testing, observability, versioning, and documentation.What we’re looking for

Hands‑on Databricks + Spark expertise (PySpark, SQL, Delta, Unity Catalog).

Proven data engineering skills (ingestion, modelling, orchestration, performance tuning).

Strong statistics/economics/data science fundamentals for market time‑series.

Experience building LLM solutions (prompting, retrieval, agent flows; LangGraph, MCP) and integrating with trading data/services.

Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, MLflow/feature stores, vector DBs, and governance (PII handling, data lineage).

Excellent stakeholder skills; able to work on‑desk with traders/analysts and deliver fast.

Does this sound like your next career move? Apply today!

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