Senior AI Engineer

The Siena Partnership are working with a leading financial services organisation is seeking a Senior Full Stack AI/ML Engineer for an initial 6-month contract.

This role focuses on taking AI models built by a third-party provider and turning them into robust, production-grade systems, while helping establish a long-term internal AI/ML engineering capability.

What you'll do

• Deploy and operationalise AI/ML models into live production environments
• Build observability, monitoring, and continuous evaluation to manage model performance and drift
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for scalable, reproducible model delivery
• Optimise performance, reliability, and efficiency of existing AI solutions
• Set up tooling for model serving, versioning, and lifecycle management
• Lead documentation, knowledge transfer, and mentoring to upskill internal teams

Technical requirements

• Strong Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• MLOps tooling (MLflow, Kubeflow or similar)
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP); Terraform experience preferred
• Financial services experience highly desirable

A hands-on role with real impact, autonomy, and senior stakeholder exposure.