Data Scientist (LLM / AI / AWS Bedrock) - Contract - Fully Remote - Outside IR35

Rapidly growing Digital Transformation Consultancy requires a Data Scientist contractor immediately. It will be on an Outside IR35 fully-remote contract basis to help design and deliver an LLM and AI engineering project, using AWS Bedrock and agents, to a renowned Gambling customer.

Contract Details:

• Start Date: Ideally immediately but by no later than Monday 13th April 2026.
• Duration: 3 months initially (extension likely).
• Determination: OUTSIDE IR35.
• Base: Fully Remote.
• Day Rate: £475 per day.

Project Scope:

• LLM / AI engineering to build AI chat moderation capabilities, not traditional statistics -only DS.
• Support existing team members who are already strong in ML/AI engineering.
• Help design and deliver an AI chat moderator using AWS Bedrock and agents.

Core Skills needed:

• Strong experience with LLMs and AI engineering (LLM engineer / AI engineer).
• Hands-on with AWS Bedrock, including: Working with multiple foundation models; Setting up and configuring Bedrock Agents / Agent Core.
• Experience implementing LLM-based applications in production (chat, moderation, or similar).
• Solid Python for prototyping and productionising LLM workflows.
• Good understanding of prompt engineering and guardrails / moderation approaches.
• Familiarity with integrating LLM services into existing applications (APIs, event flows).

Desirable skills:

• Experience with chat systems or real-time moderation.
• Knowledge of basic statistics/ML to collaborate with traditional data scientists.
• Exposure to AWS architecture patterns (microservices, security, observability).