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Principal AI Data Engineer with World Leading Energy Company

Eaglecliff Recruitmentlondon, united kingdom🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 2 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Principal AI Data Engineer role offers a unique chance to shape cutting-edge Generative AI and agentic AI solutions for a globally recognized energy leader, providing significant impact and career growth. You'll thrive here if you have extensive experience building and deploying AI systems, a passion for innovation, and a desire to collaborate on transformative projects within a hybrid work environment. Don't miss this opportunity to advance your career at the forefront of AI technology.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Leader
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
london, united kingdom, United Kingdom
DockerSQLScalaETLMLflowAzureDatabricksGPTPyTorchPythonUnity

Job Description

Exciting Opportunity for an Experienced Principal AI Data Engineer to help build and scale GenAI and agentic AI solutions as part of a new project for a Leading Energy Company.


Responsibilities:


  • Build and evaluate GenAI/Agentic AI prototypes (Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks Mosaic AI, Genie, MLflow)
  • Design and tune RAG systems — embeddings, prompt engineering, evaluation
  • Build AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and similar frameworks
  • Deploy models via Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Docker
  • Write clean, modular Python (OOP, Pydantic, PyTorch) following solid DevOps/CI-CD practices
  • Manage large-scale text and structured datasets on Databricks
  • Partner closely with commercial stakeholders to align AI solutions with business needs


Key Skills:


  • 8-12+ years' experience delivering large scale Data science or AI Projects
  • Strong knowledge of LLMs (GPT, Llama, Claude, Mistral) and their reasoning capabilities
  • Deep Databricks experience (DLT, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog governance)
  • Solid grasp of streaming technologies (Spark Structured Streaming, Autoloader)
  • Python, SQL, or Scala proficiency
  • Experience with ETL/ELT, data modelling, and data architecture
  • Azure cloud experience


With a focus within Energy Trading, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets and Commodities, we offer a transparent Recruitment Service that has proven to be reliable and effective for over 40 years. We are ISO accredited and proud of our excellent TrustPilot Reviews.


Eaglecliff Ltd is acting in the capacity of an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for contractor resourcing.

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