Senior Data Engineer | Computer Vision

Project overview

Senior Data Engineer

£782/day (Inside IR35) | 12-Month Contract | London (2 Days Onsite)

Clinical Platforms team is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build and maintain the data and cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale medical imaging and AI/ML initiatives across the business.

This is a highly technical engineering role sitting at the intersection of Data Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Machine Learning Infrastructure and Computer Vision. You'll be responsible for designing, building and supporting production-grade data platforms that enable researchers and scientists to work with complex imaging datasets and AI-driven workflows.

The team is looking for a hands-on engineer with strong Python, SQL and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience who can take ownership of technical solutions from design through to production.

What You'll Be Doing

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

Highly Desirable

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms
• Developing and maintaining data infrastructure supporting medical imaging and AI/ML workloads
• Building ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration frameworks
• Managing large-scale datasets across cloud environments
• Supporting infrastructure used to deploy and run machine learning and computer vision solutions
• Designing data models and database schemas for complex datasets
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and optimising production systems
• Collaborating with engineers, researchers and data scientists across multiple projects
• Strong commercial experience with Python development
• Advanced SQL and data modelling expertise
• Strong Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Experience designing and delivering production-grade data platforms
• Strong understanding of systems architecture and cloud infrastructure
• Experience building end-to-end data engineering solutions
• Proven track record delivering engineering projects into production
• Computer Vision or Image Processing experience
• Exposure to Machine Learning platforms and infrastructure
• Experience working with image datasets at scale
• PyTorch, OpenCV, NumPy or related technologies
• BigQuery and wider GCP ecosystem experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or GitHub Copilot

Nice to have

Ideal Background

We're open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds, including:

The key requirement is strong, hands-on commercial engineering experience and the ability to design, build and support complex production systems.

Why Join?

Contract Details

If your background sits across Data Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Machine Learning infrastructure, I'd be happy to share further details.

• Medical imaging experience
• DICOM or PACS exposure
• Healthcare, biotech or pharmaceutical industry experience
• Senior Data Engineers
• Data Platform Engineers
• Machine Learning Engineers
• ML Platform Engineers
• Computer Vision Engineers
• AI Engineers
• Software Engineers with strong cloud and data engineering experience
• Work on cutting-edge AI and medical imaging initiatives
• Join a highly technical engineering team within GSK's Clinical Platforms function
• Contribute to platforms supporting drug discovery and clinical research
• Opportunity to work across Data Engineering, ML Infrastructure and Computer Vision projects
• Long-term 12-month contract with strong extension potential
• Role: Senior Data Engineer
• Contract Length: 12 Months
• Rate: Up to £782/day
• IR35 Status: Inside IR35
• Location: London
• Working Pattern: 2 Days Onsite Per Week

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 12-Month Contract
• Location: London
• Rate: 75-98 EUR/h