GenAI Data Engineer

Vallum Associates
London, United Kingdom
Today
£500 – £525 pd

Salary

£500 – £525 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
28 Apr 2026 (Today)

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 largescale 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, finetuning, 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

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