Senior / Lead Data Scientist - AI Agents - Outside IR35
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Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Data Scientist role focuses on designing, deploying, and testing AI Agent solutions within an automated insurance workflow. The position emphasizes hands-on delivery and technical leadership, requiring end-to-end involvement from shaping applications of large language models to ensuring robust deployment in a cloud environment. The role also includes mentoring a junior Data Scientist and collaborating with various teams to effectively integrate solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and architecture of AI Agent solutions, ensuring they align to integration specifications.
- Build, refine, and test prompt engineering methods for large language models.
- Develop and validate API integrations to embed agents into live workflows.
- Deploy containerised applications into Azure (or another major cloud).
- Define and run testing and evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance.
- Mentor and support a junior Data Scientist, ensuring high standards of delivery.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business teams to embed solutions effectively.
- Produce clear reporting on outcomes and outline recommendations for scaling.
Key Skills:
- Advanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML development.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering and applied use cases.
- Track record of designing, deploying, and testing AI Agents in production environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud deployments (Azure preferred, others considered).
- Experience providing technical oversight and mentoring.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Data Scientist – AI Agents
Location: Hybrid, 1 day per week in London
Contract: Outside IR35
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist with proven experience in the design, deployment, and testing of AI Agent solutions . This role is central to a project building and integrating AI-powered agents into an automated insurance workflow, with a strong emphasis on hands-on delivery and technical leadership. The position requires someone comfortable working end-to-end: from shaping how LLMs are applied, through to coding integrations and ensuring robust deployment into a cloud environment. Alongside delivery, you will provide guidance and oversight to a junior Data Scientist contributing to the build.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of AI Agent solutions , ensuring they align to integration specifications.
- Build, refine, and test prompt engineering methods for large language models.
- Develop and validate API integrations to embed agents into live workflows.
- Deploy containerised applications into Azure (or another major cloud).
- Define and run testing and evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance.
- Mentor and support a junior Data Scientist, ensuring high standards of delivery.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business teams to embed solutions effectively.
- Produce clear reporting on outcomes and outline recommendations for scaling.
Required Experience
- Advanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML development.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs , including prompt engineering and applied use cases.
- Track record of designing, deploying, and testing AI Agents in production environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud deployments (Azure preferred, others considered).
- Experience providing technical oversight and mentoring.