Client: Global Investment & Financial Services Firm Location: Dublin, Ireland Contract: 12 months (initial) CPL is recruiting on behalf of our client, a leading global investment firm, for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in Dublin on a 12-month contract with high daily rates.
This is a strategic role within the client’s Workplace Investing AI & ML squad, delivering next-generation AI/ML solutions for Participant Services.
Role overview You will be a senior technical leader designing and deploying scalable AI/ML solutions end-to-end, working closely with data engineers, data scientists, and product teams in a fast-paced, integrated environment.
Key responsibilities Deliver end-to-end AI/ML solutions from analysis and design through development, testing, deployment, and optimisation Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deploy to cloud (AWS preferred) Lead model lifecycle work: EDA, feature engineering, deployment, tuning, monitoring, and retraining in a cloud MLOps environment Develop and support APIs and data platforms using modern engineering practices (containers, orchestration) Lead multiple initiatives concurrently and coordinate across teams Required experience Significant experience on large-scale AI/ML initiatives across the full ML lifecycle Strong hands-on AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, Glue, SNS, SQS) and data platforms (Snowflake, RDS/Postgres, DynamoDB) CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, uDeploy, Concourse) and cloud security (IAM, policies, certificates) Advanced SQL and complex data analysis across multiple data platforms Orchestration/DAG tools (Airflow, Prefect, Luigi, Kubeflow) API development with Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python microservices, deployed with Docker and Kubernetes Understanding of model development, scoring (inference), and cloud-based MLOps Desirable experience AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, MLflow, ModelOp, Seldon AI services: AWS Textract, Comprehend, Kendra; Azure Cognitive Services Candidate profile Highly motivated Principal ML Engineer with a strong track record at scale Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership Strong ownership, attention to detail, and team mentality in a dynamic environment Why apply?
Strategic AI/ML team in a global investment firm High daily rates and competitive contract terms Exposure to modern cloud, data, and MLOps at scale Dublin-based, flexible working environment