The posting
Senior ML Engineer - 12 Month Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy ML models in AWS SageMaker and EKS.
- Optimize ML models for real-time decisioning in high-traffic environments.
- Ensure models comply with regulatory and security standards.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML model deployments.
- Automate model retraining, monitoring, and logging using AWS Lambda, Terraform, and Control-M jobs.
- Implement observability tools like OpenSearch, FluentBit, Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Develop ETL/ELT pipelines for data preprocessing and feature engineering.
- Work with AWS Redshift to process large-scale datasets for model training.
- Monitor ML models running 24/7 in production, ensuring reliability and high availability.
- Work closely with engineering teams to troubleshoot and optimize production systems.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for urgent ML pipeline issues.
- Collaborate with data scientists, decision engineers, and credit engineers to align ML solutions with business needs.
- Take ownership of ML solutions and provide guidance to junior engineers.
- Contribute to the ongoing AI/ML strategy within the business.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Technical Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering.
- Strong expertise in Python, PySpark, SQL, and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
- Experience with AWS ML services (Amazon SageMaker, EKS, Lambda, Redshift, Control-M, Terraform).
- Experience with MLOps practices (CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in observability & monitoring tools: OpenSearch, FluentBit, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch.
- Strong understanding of real-time ML applications in financial environments.
- Experience in building and maintaining ETL pipelines in a cloud environment.
Soft Skills:
- Leadership & Ownership Ability to work independently and drive ML initiatives.
- Problem-Solving Ability to troubleshoot ML model failures in production.
- Strong Communication Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Agility Adapt to a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
- Banking Industry Experience Preferred.



