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Data Analytics Engineer II (GenAI Applications) - Manchester

Posted 1 day ago by Contracts IT Recruitment Consulting Ltd

About the Role

We're supporting our client in hiring several Data Analytics Engineers for its AI Experiences team the group behind Search & Discovery, AI Companions, Chatbots, Customer Support AI, and LLM Evaluation.

This is a business-focused analytics role: product ownership, data quality, monitoring, experimentation, and insight generation. You'll work directly with Product, ML, Engineering, and Data Science teams to improve AI products used by millions of customers.

This is not a traditional Data Engineering or infrastructure role.

Responsibilities

  • Own application-specific data domains from an analytics perspective.
  • Design and maintain scalable data models and reusable datasets.
  • Ensure data quality, governance, and monitoring across production systems.
  • Investigate product and AI performance issues; run root cause analysis.
  • Build monitoring, quality, usage, and cost dashboards for AI applications.
  • Analyse experiments, model behaviour, and product performance.
  • Generate actionable insights from large, complex datasets.
  • Work with structured and unstructured data - customer interactions, reviews, conversations, AI outputs.
  • Support AI evaluation frameworks and model quality monitoring.

Required Skills

Technical

Strong SQL

Python for analytics

PySpark

Data modelling & warehousing

Building reusable analytical datasets

Large-scale analytical environments

Business & Product

  • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving
  • Comfort with ambiguity and independent initiative
  • Stakeholder management across Product and Engineering
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Translating business needs into analytical solutions

Desirable

  • Product Analytics
  • AI/ML products
  • Search & Discovery, recommendation systems
  • Chatbots/Conversational AI
  • LLM evaluation and monitoring
  • Error and model performance analysis
  • NLP/unstructured text analytics
  • AI telemetry and observability

Nice to Have

  • dbt, Snowflake, Streamlit, Airflow, Argo
  • OpenTelemetry (OTel)
  • AI-assisted analytics workflows

What We're Looking For

A strong analyst with excellent business understanding and product ownership. Comfortable in ambiguous environments, proactive in spotting opportunities and issues, and able to help teams make data-driven decisions that impact customer-facing AI products. Experience supporting production AI/ML products is a particular plus.

Interview Process

  • Automated Assessment - SQL, Python, Business Understanding
  • Technical Interview - Data Modelling, Analytics Reasoning, Problem Solving
  • Hiring Manager Interview - Communication, Ownership, Product Mindset

Contract Details

  • Start: ASAP
  • Duration: Until 31 December 2026
  • Location: Manchester
  • Hybrid: 1-2 days per week onsite
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Manchester
IR35 Status:
Not specified
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
Data & Analytics
Seniority Level:
Not Specified

Take-Home Pay

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