Data Scientist

🚨 CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY – DATA SCIENTIST 🚨 📍 London (Hybrid) 🏢 FTSE 100 Business 💰 £575 per day 🧾 Outside IR35 📆 6-Month Initial Contract A leading FTSE 100 organisation is building out multiple AI teams focused on both AI product development and enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives. This is a production-first environment focused on deploying AI systems that are actively used, trusted, and continuously improved - not experimental proof-of-concepts. Candidates should have proven experience building and deploying real-world LLM and agentic systems into production environments at scale. Key Responsibilities: • Designing and building AI agents and agentic workflows powered by LLMs • Developing multi-step intelligent systems incorporating reasoning, planning, memory, and tool orchestration • Building and improving RAG pipelines and retrieval systems • Working with MCP-style architectures / FastMCP / FastAPI • Automating complex workflows and decision-making processes using AI • Deploying scalable AI systems into production cloud environments Required Experience: • Strong Python engineering skills with production-grade coding standards • Proven experience shipping LLM-powered applications into production • Hands-on experience with LangChain / LangGraph or similar frameworks • Experience building AI agents with orchestration and tool usage • Strong understanding of RAG architectures and LLM trade-offs • Experience deploying systems across AWS, Azure, or GCP • Strong product mindset with a bias toward delivery and impact Additional Desirable Experience: • SaaS or B2B AI product environments • High-growth or scaling businesses • Evidence of AI systems actively delivering measurable business value