Who we are 🩵
We're the people behind global loyalty currency, Avios, and home to three ambitious, growing businesses; Loyalty, Holidays and Retail. Each business has its own goals, strategy and team, but collectively we share a purpose to create the world's most rewarding experiences for our customers through loyalty programmes, new products and holidays. Get the full IAG Loyalty lowdown, here.
We're on a truly exciting journey of growth and transformation – we're going places! It means we have a fantastic story to tell our people and the rest of the world. This is where you come in.
The opportunity ✨
You'll be joining our Data Products team, working closely with teams that are aligned to value steams. Our team exists to drive success across Commercial, Customer, Finance and Product domains. We're on a mission to make our data available and usable in one place to delivering powerful data solutions that optimise performance and supercharge decision-making.
We're putting data at the heart of what we do to deliver super experiences to our customers and colleagues with machine learning (ML) foundational to this mission. We need to embed a centralised ML platform to make our colleagues lives easier when creating value for the company in a standardised way. This platform will allow safe, efficient and reliable MLOps. We are looking for an experienced ML Platform Lead to lead a small team and scale our ML capabilities to meet the needs of our team and our companies goals.
You will be joining in the early stages of our journey as we build out the team. We're migrating to Snowflake platform along with other tooling as part of the modern data stack such as AWS (Sagemaker). You will be responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure and tools that enable the development and deployment of machine learning models.
In this role, you will be using ground-breaking technology on the Snowflake platform to build and support world-class ML systems, both batch and real-time. Your role will be part people manager, part individual contributor – you'll be thinking strategically about what we need and building the platform out.
What you'll get up to 🌠
- Leading a small team to build out the ML platform and focus on what matters
- Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of our ML platform
- Define and implement best practices for training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models at scale
- Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists to develop end-to-end ML solutions
- Extend and maintain our self-service platform to help our data science teams quickly productionise ML models following MLOps best practices
What we need from you 💡
- Hands-on experience in machine learning engineering, with a proven track record of designing and deploying large-scale machine learning systems
- Extensive knowledge of software development with Python, SOLID principles
- Understanding of machine learning techniques, such as supervised and unsupervised learning, MLOps, and data engineering
- Infrastructure as Code - Terraform or equivalent
- Practical knowledge of AWS, Snowflake, GCP, AWS or Azure
- Experience with or equivalent to: o Vertex, Dataflow, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Datastore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and PubSub o Snowflake Cortex / AWS Bedrock, AWS MSK, Snowpipe Streaming, Snowpark Container Services
We Might Not Be Right For You If
- You value perfection over fast iteration and progress; IAG Loyalty moves fast, we learn and iterate as we go; our environment isn't right for everyone.
What you'll get in return 🤝
A few to spark your interest below, and you'll find even more on our career site.
- A place to grow your career: We're home to three businesses under one roof and part of one of the world's leading airline groups (International Airlines Group), so the opportunities here, if you go after them, are endless. Our newly launched learning programme, ‘Develop You', will also give you the skills and capability to take your career to new heights.
- A place to belong: Our socials are a firm fave in the calendar, and our colleague-led networks and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion agenda will give you the platforms to make new connections, share your passions and your voice.
- A place to make your mark: Our focus on agility and continuous improvement is a mindset and way of working. We put the customer at the heart of our decisions and move fast so you can deliver the most value possible.
- A place to do things that matter: We're passionate about the part we play in our customers lives; helping them make memories that last a lifetime, as well as the work we do to give back to our local communities. Our thriving charity network, combined with work that impacts millions, means we're a place you can do your part.
Perks that take you places: ✈️
- One non-contractual Annual Bookable Travel Concession for you, your partner and dependants and unlimited standby and premium standby fares for you and your nominees on the full British Airways network and numerous other partner airlines from day one
- 20 days working from abroad in Europe per annum.
- Annual Bonus (dependant on company and individual performance)
- Company pension of 9% (6% contribution from IAGL, 3% employee contribution)
- 25 days annual leave, + 2 days charity leave and a day off on your birthday
- New joiner, birthday and recognition Avios
If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please do still apply. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at IAG Loyalty
Our vision, 'to create the world's most rewarding experiences,' applies not only to our customers but for our colleagues too. It's about taking belonging seriously, actively fostering a culture where everyone feels welcomed and valued by embracing diverse identities, personal histories, and perspectives.
This commitment makes IAG Loyalty a rewarding place to work and enhances our ability to solve complex problems, drive innovation, and better serve our customers and communities.
Please let us know if we can make any reasonable adjustments to support your interview process with us.