Data Architect: I (Junior) - Central Point Partners

Job Title: MLOps Solutions Engineer (with Architecture and Engineering experience)
Location: Columbus, OH area (Hybrid 3, Remote 2)
Type: 3-Month Contract-to-Hire

About Us:
We are a forward-thinking team within a large enterprise bank, focused on leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data-driven solutions to improve business outcomes. As part of the MLOps team, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with data scientists, business users, product owners, and engineers to design, architect, and implement MLOps solutions that enable scalable, robust, and automated deployment of machine learning models.

This is a 3-month contract-to-hire position, with the opportunity to join the team full-time after demonstrating successful contributions to our MLOps initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Design & Architecture:

• Collaborate with product owners and data scientists to design MLOps solutions that translate business requirements into technical specifications and architectures.
• Work with MLOps engineers to ensure the solutions you design are efficiently implemented and aligned with best practices.

Collaboration & Business Alignment:

• Serve as a bridge between business users, product owners, and MLOps engineers, ensuring seamless communication and alignment on project goals.
• Gather requirements from business stakeholders and translate them into detailed technical documentation for MLOps teams.

MLOps Platform Expertise:

• Utilize both proprietary and open-source MLOps tools to build flexible and scalable machine learning pipelines.
• Identify and implement relevant open-source tools to enhance the team's MLOps platform, ensuring long-term flexibility and efficiency.

End-to-End Model Deployment:

• Lead the end-to-end productionization process, working from model training to deployment and monitoring in real-time or batch systems.
• Handle data drift, model drift, and versioning in production environments, ensuring minimal downtime and consistent model performance.

DevOps & CI/CD Pipeline Management:

• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for model deployment using Azure DevOps and other tools, ensuring smooth collaboration with development teams.
• Strong experience with Git for managing code, model, and dataset versioning.

API Development & Integration:

• Design APIs for batch and real-time model inference, ensuring reliability and scalability in production.
• Collaborate with Kafka engineers to automate data transfer processes and ensure accurate data pipelines.

Continuous Improvement & Open-Source Integration:

• Keep up with the latest developments in MLOps, integrating new open-source tools to optimize workflows.
• Encourage continuous learning and experimentation within the team to foster innovation in MLOps practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Python: Deep expertise in Python for scripting, automation, and building machine learning pipelines.
• AWS & Terraform: Strong experience in managing AWS services (SageMaker, S3, Lambda) and using Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
• Docker & Linux: Extensive experience with Docker containerization and Linux systems management.
• DevOps (Azure DevOps, CI/CD): Proven experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines for machine learning model deployment.
• Git: Proficient in Git for version control of code, models, and data.
• API Development: Proficiency in API development using tools like Swagger for batch and real-time model inference.
• SQL for database management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large language models and productionizing client models in a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of open-source MLOps frameworks such as Kubeflow, MLFlow, Airflow, or DVC.
• Familiarity with near real-time inference systems, batch processing, and model drift management.
• AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty certification is a plus.

Must-Have Skills: API, AWS, Docker, Git, Python, SQL, Swagger, Terraform
Nice-to-Have: AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty, experience with machine learning.

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