Sr Data/AI/ML Engineer

Job Title: Sr Data/AI/ML Engineer

Location: Remote/Pune

Skill set: Azure, Data Eng., Python

Your Day-to-Day responsibilities include:

• Design and development of systems for the maintenance of the Azure Databricks, ETL processes, business intelligence and data ingestion pipelines for AI/ML use cases.
• Build, scale, and optimize GenAI and ML workloads across Databricks and other production environments, with strong attention to cost efficiency, compliance, and robustness
• Build ML pipelines to train, serve, and monitor reinforcement learning or supervised learning models using Databricks and ML Flow.
• Create and support ETL pipelines and tables schemas in order to facilitate the accommodation of new and existing data sources for the Lakehouse on Databricks.
• Maintain data governance and data privacy standards.
• Collaborate with data architects, data scientists, analysts and other business consumers to quickly and thoroughly analyze business requirements to populate the data warehouse, optimized for reporting and analytics.
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain technical documentation and mentor junior data engineers on best practices in data engineering and Lakehouse architecture.
• Drive innovation and contribute to the development of cutting-edge Generative AI and analytical capabilities for the client's Next-Gen research enablement platform.

Minimum Qualifications✔️:

• 7+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree
• Proven experience designing and deploying applications using Generative AI and large language models (e.g., GPT4, Claude, openweight LLMs)
• Experience with retrieval augmented generation, embeddings-based search, agent orchestration, or prompt chaining
• Familiarity with modern LLM/GenAI tools such as Langchain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace Transformers, Semantic Kernel, or LangGraph.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases (e.g. SQL Server)
• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines on Azure Databricks.
• In depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Data Engineering, Machine learning, Data Warehousing and Delta Lake on Databricks.
• Highly proficient in Spark, Python, SQL
• Working knowledge of Fivetran is a bonus.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills to effectively communicate
• across global teams.

Preferred Qualifications✔️:

• Knowledge of BI Tools like PowerBI etc.
• Experience building and deploying ML and feature engineering pipelines to production using MLFlow.
• Experience with building data pipeline from various business applications like Salesforce, NetSuite, etc.
• Knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data stores.
• Experience or knowledge of working in a compliance-based environment, including building and deploying compliant software solutions throughout the software life cycle is a nice to have.
• Familiarity with cloud-based AI/ML services and Generative AI tools.