3Cloud is a “born in the cloud” Gold-Certified Microsoft Azure technology consulting firm and Azure Expert Managed Services Provider that provides cloud strategy, design, implementation, acquisition, and ongoing managed services to its clients across various industries. To meet the needs of its clients, 3Cloud offers comprehensive services across Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps & Automation, Cloud Application Development and Data, Analytics and AI. Founded by former Microsoft technology leaders, 3Cloud uniquely offers: (1) highly experienced and proven cloud architects and technologists, (2) strong business strategy, financial acumen and operational proficiency and (3) deep relationship and network into Microsoft engineering and field leadership. 3Cloud is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices in Dallas, Pittsburgh and Tampa while supporting its clients throughout the US. 

The Data Science Practice 

The Data Science Practice at 3Cloud is on a mission to position clients to capitalize on what narrow (weak) Artificial Intelligence does best: learn what's most important to an objective and automate its doing, at scale. We love giving our clients the ultimate Azure experience, and we take seriously the privilege of offering our clients this service with our ML chops. This position requires we reduce the capital risk of data-driven exploration through value-driven cloud engineering, champion the adoption of ML solutions trained to optimize value signals, and extend & secure AI systems of strategic value, all by designing and building with expertise that leads technical, domain, and human frontiers. 

Our practice is growing quickly, and we are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer who will be responsible for delivering high quality machine learning solutions using Microsoft’s Azure suite of tools. You will have intermediate to advanced knowledge of Python (or R), Scala, and/or Apache Spark. You understand how to explore, preprocess, join, and ingest data. Maybe you can work end-to-end (train, test, tune, deploy, and explain) with NLP models, recommendation engines, matching algorithms, and others. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer facing roles and will have had success leading technical and economic value discussions with senior client technology executives that drive key decisions and ML implementation. 

We don’t expect you to be a unicorn, and we don’t expect you to know everything. You’ll be supported by a world class team working on world class problems  

Responsibilities:  

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high performing, reliable and scalable machine learning solutions 
• Clearly communicate technical details to technical and management teammates 

• Assist business development team with pre-sales activities and RFPs (Request for Proposal) 
• Elevate the teams’ talent and quality through active coaching and management 
• Manage prioritization ensuring the team is working on top priorities and maximizing value 
• Conduct customer discovery meetings to determine requirements 
• Work with the sales team to support sales efforts from a technical perspective 

• Lead creation of collateral including reference implementations and best practices, and training of sellers and partners in your area of specialization 
• Identify, validate, and grow opportunities to accelerate Azure consumption in high potential customer accounts, in partnership with the sales team, by driving solution architecture for Microsoft solutions 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree desired in Computer Science, Operations Research, Information Technology, Applied Math, Economics, Statistics or related quantitative field 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with data science, or machine learning work 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Azure technologies, and previous Consulting experience 
• Knowledge of Databricks development 
• Application engineer level proficiency including in at least three of the following: Scala, Python, R, Spark 
• Ability to develop utilizing the following technologies: 

• Data Movement (Apache Spark, plus Azure Data Factory and legacy SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)) 
• Azure Storage Technologies (Data Lake, Blob Storage) 
• Azure Machine Learning 
• Azure Databricks 

• Expertise in Spark Data Frames API (Application Programming Interfaces) and architecture to ingest and manipulate data, including exploring, preprocessing, joining, filtering, dropping sorting, partitioning, and renaming/manipulating columns in the dataset 

Professional Skills: 

• Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment 
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills for both technical and non-technical teams 
• Passionate about learning new technologies 
• Analytical approach to problem-solving; ability to use technology to solve business problems 

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment 
• Experience leading technical project teams 
• Enthusiastic about improving team processes 
• Eager to standardize delivery processes and methodologies 
   

Additional Preferred Experience: 

• Machine Learning/AI Practitioner expertise, including 

• Experience in predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive settings using data science tools and technologies 
• Experience with Azure ML Studio/Services 
• Understanding and experience with a variety of model families, including supervised vs unsupervised, regression vs classification, clustering, and cross-validation 
• Experience in a variety of technical domains is a plus: NLP, computer vision, algorithmic marketing 

• Building, Tuning, and deploying analysis models with Spark ML and ML Flow 

• Knowledge of Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a plus 
• Microsoft and Databricks certifications are a plus 

Come put your thumbprint on the story of 3Cloud. As a rapidly growing company, we’re looking for the brightest minds to shape and share in our exciting future. 

This is s U.S. remote role. U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.