Principal Machine Learning Engineer New

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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
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