Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

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Job Description

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers, and which is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

This is a hands-on engineering position that will be a part of a team enabling Model Ops capabilities for the Machine Learning Platform.  This team is taking an innovative approach to defining fully automated and advanced ModelOps capabilities as a service for the company.  This role will be instrumental in developing innovative software delivery pipeline capabilities and API’s, as well as develop the tools and infrastructure that enable self-service adoption. Candidates will be expected to bring their expertise and creativity to help solve key technical as well as non-technical challenges in driving our vision, engineering our solutions and unlocking value across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Build, evolve and scale the data science technology capabilities to enable our machine learning platform
  • Lead ML Ops strategy implementation, including batch and real-time model delivery, model management, DevOps practices and platform engineering
  • Partner with management, architects and product owners to understand requirements, refining features and delivering technical capabilities
  • Create automated pipelines and workflows to implement algorithms, data features and models into production, at scale
  • Engage with Data Science, Technology and Product Owners to understand challenges around deploying, maintaining and monitoring data science models in production
  • Ensure designs and solutions are highly available, secure, and continue to drive automation of data science capabilities
  • Engage internal development teams on tools, techniques, capabilities as well as gather feedback on data science capability evolution from our internal communities
  • Build and enable capabilities in production, enabling the latest modeling techniques & technology frameworks in ML and AI such as Spark, TensorFlow, Keras, & Graph technologies like Neo4J & Neptune to optimize performance and provide cost-efficiencies in the platform
  • Deliver software capabilities and products from initial concept through continuous improvement
  • Develop and implement automated testing frameworks for ML and AI delivery such as UAT, integration, A/B, champion / challenger methodologies
  • Build functions for statistical tests
  • Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved team processes; mentors junior team members
  • Support live systems to ensure business continuity
  • Develops and maintains complex front-ends with a focus on user experience
  • Develops and maintains backend systems
  • Works with key stakeholders to design complex solutions and lead from inception to production
  • Creates and maintains DevOps processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models)

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field 
  • 6+ years of work experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related experience
  • In lieu of degree, 8+ years of work experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related experience

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

  • 6+ years of experience in Python, Java, JavaScript development or related development experience
  • 2+ years of experience in automated software build & deployment automation in distributed cloud environment such as AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Experience developing and implementing API service capabilities and re-usable components
  • Knowledge of containerization (Kubernetes) platforms and understand concepts around pods, configMaps, Secrets, etc..)
  • CI / CD Pipeline Automation using tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, or similar
  • Understanding of groovy scripting or similar to provide template CI / CD artifacts
  • Experience working with code repositories such as Github and competent in implementing versioning, branching, etc..
  • Experience working with a variety of data platforms such as S3, Snowflake, Redis, Cassandra
  • Understanding of observability and how to achieve reliability in a service
  • Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
  • Skilled in high availability & scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
  • Knowledge in machine learning, deep learning and other AI use cases a plus
  • Experience as part of an agile engineering or development team
  • Exposure to statistical tests
  • Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team 
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code 
  • Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database 
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory 
  • Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring 
  • Experience developing and implementing API service architecture 
  • Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure. 
  • Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis. 
  • Build secure web applications with user authentication 
  • Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Redshift or Snowflake   
  • Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

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