Senior Technical Specialist

Role summary

Lead the design and conformance of the cloud-agnostic MLOps framework and AI/ML infrastructure (vector search, embeddings) across Azure Databricks and GCP Vertex AI.

• Maintain the standardised AI/ML framework design covering experimentation, code versioning, CI/CD, feature management, deployment, inference and monitoring.
• Validate the AI/ML infrastructure baseline at mobilisation, close spillover and support adoption; do not restart completed work.
• Guide self-service Terraform templates for vector search and embedding infrastructure in Databricks and Vertex AI.
• Oversee MLOps framework rollout to remaining LBUs and ensure co-existence with the AI Platform (Scope 3) capabilities.
• Review designs from ML Integration Engineers for security, scalability and Group standards alignment.

Must-have skills and experience

• 7–10 years in ML/AI architecture with production MLOps experience.
• Hands-on MLflow, Databricks ML, and/or Vertex AI pipelines and model registries.
• Experience designing cloud-agnostic ML platforms and CI/CD for ML.
• Good understanding of vector search, embeddings and GPU/compute optimisation.

Good to have

• Exposure to GenAIOps, LLM gateways and RAG patterns.
• Insurance or BFSI ML use cases (fraud, churn, claims).

Certifications (within 90 days of assignment)

• Databricks ML Professional / Generative AI Engineer
• GCP Professional Machine Learning Engineer
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate