Staff Engineer (AI/Data)

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global develops MIS and school management tools used by more than 12,000 schools and trusts, with a data platform and AI-driven product features.

What you will do

• Define target architectures connecting transactional, analytical, and AI systems across Arbor’s product suite.
• Lead the end-to-end data lifecycle, including OLTP schema design, migrations, OLAP governance, platform engineering, and analytics.
• Guide Technical Leads on feature delivery, technical debt reduction, architecture improvements, and engineering quality.
• Translate product vision into technical deliverables and align commercial, product, and engineering goals.
• Architect infrastructure for LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and real-time model inference at scale.
• Mentor technical leaders, lead architectural reviews, and contribute to broader technology strategy, reliability, security, and compliance.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading data architecture and delivering iterative outcomes across OLAP domains.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, distributed cloud-native systems, and platforms such as Snowflake.
• Experience with unstructured data, DataOps, CI/CD for data, complex pipeline orchestration, AWS, Debezium, Git, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and support engineers and Technical Leads across distributed teams.
• Practical knowledge of data security, encryption, compliance, observability, performance, and SaaS platform cost optimisation.
• Understanding of AI-first engineering and experience contributing to technical communities of practice.

Nice to have

• AI/ML engineering and MLOps experience, including model deployment, serving, and monitoring.
• Experience with federated learning, privacy-enhancing technologies, or LLM operations.
• Prompt engineering at scale and token cost optimisation experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements for all roles.
• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Wellbeing support, including a virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks.
• Private dental insurance, pension, life assurance, and enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.
• Professional development budget, charity volunteering day, social committees, and dog-friendly offices.

Hiring process

• Phone screen.
• First-stage interview.
• Second-stage interview.

Visa sponsorship is not available.