Machine Learning Engineer, Associate Director (Manchester)

Overview

In this role you will help architect the next generation of AI-powered credit analysis at Fitch, leading hands-on development of novel ML systems. You will operate at senior level within the AI Innovation Teams, guiding architecture, governance, and production-scale deployment while mentoring engineers. You’ll work with cross-functional partners to turn research breakthroughs into scalable capabilities that influence global financial markets. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape enterprise-grade AI platforms with executive sponsorship and substantial backing.

Pay / Benefits

• ground-floor ML leadership with executive backing
• research budgets and enterprise resources
• cutting-edge ML infrastructure access
• conference and training budgets
• career advancement toward Principal ML Architect or AI Research Lead
• opportunity to shape AI governance and standards

Responsibilities

• Design net-new generative AI solutions and agentic workflows
• Lead exploration of multi-agent systems, RAG architectures, and model fine-tuning
• Define ML architecture, engineering standards, and governance patterns
• Mentor and coach ML engineers while collaborating with product squads
• Deliver production-ready AI capabilities with robust CI/CD and scalable APIs
• Drive ML governance, monitor SLAs, and translate ML concepts to non-technical audiences
• Shape team culture and technical direction in a greenfield environment

Key requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience building production AI/ML systems
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML algorithms across classical and deep learning
• Experience with generative AI, large language models, and agentic systems
• Hands-on experience with deployment patterns and scalable ML architectures
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field

• collaboration and communication
• technical leadership and influence
• mentoring and coaching
• Python
• PyTorch
• large language models

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