Data Engineer Machine Learning

My name is Bill Stevens and I have a new six month plus Data Engineer Machine Learning opportunity available for a major firm located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania that could be of interest to you, please review my specification below and I am available at any time to speak with you so please feel free to call me. The work schedule will be a hybrid one, three days a week in the firms Bethlehem, Pennsylvania office and two days remote. There is no full remote option for this role.

This position pays $90.00 per hour on a w-2 hourly basis or $100.00 per hour on a Corp basis. The Corp rate is for independent contractors only and not third-party firms. No Visa entanglements and no H1-B holding companies.

The ideal candidate will:

Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable, high performant data pipeline solutions.

Support data discovery & data preparation for model development.

Perform detailed analysis of raw data sources by applying business context and collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform raw data into curated & certified data assets to be used for ML and BI use cases.

Collaborate with data science and data engineering team to build scalable and reproducible machine learning pipelines for training and inference.

Implement machine learning models into operations and processes via batch, streaming and API methods.

Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues.

Develop, test, and maintain robust tools, frameworks, and libraries that standardize and streamline the data & machine learning lifecycle.

Contribute to developing and maintaining end-to-end MLOps lifecycle to automate machine learning solutions development and delivery.

Implement robust monitoring framework for model performance.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams of Data Science, Data Engineering, business units and various IT teams.

Create and maintain effective documentation for project and practices ensuring transparency and effective team communication.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree with 5 years of experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.

4 years of experience in working with Python, SQL, PySpark and bash scripts.

Proficient in software development lifecycle and software engineering practices.

2 years of hands-on experience in using Databricks platform

3 years of hands-on experience in operationalizing Machine Learning solutions which are used in live production processes.

2 years of experience and proficiency in API development using FastAPI frameworks and familiarity with containerization technologies such as docker or Kubernetes.

3 years of experience in developing and maintaining robust data pipelines data to be used by Data Scientists to build ML Models.

3 years of experience working with Cloud Data Warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks SQL or equivalent) platforms and experience in working with distributed framework like Spark.

Solid understanding of machine learning life cycle, data mining, and ETL techniques.

Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Keras or PyTorch and libraries such as scikit-learn, xgboost).

Hands-on experience in building and maintaining tools and libraries which have been used by multiple teams across organization.

Proficient in understanding and incorporating software engineering principles in design & development process.

Hands on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins or equivalent), version control (Github, Bitbucket), Orchestration (Airflow, Prefect or equivalent)

Excellent communication skills and ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams across technology and business.

Pluses only:

Familiarity with deep learning frameworks and deploying deep learning models for production use cases.

Familiarity in using GPU compute either for model training or inference.

Understanding of Large language models (LLM) and MLOps lifecycle for operationalizing LLM models.

The interview process will include an initial telephone or Zoom screening.

Please let me know your interest for this position, availability to interview and start for this position along with a copy of your recent resume or please feel free to call me at any time with any questions.

Regards

Bill Stevens

Senior Technical Recruiter

PRI Technology

Denville, New Jersey 07834

973-354-2799

Bill.Stevens@PRITechnology.com

www.PriTechnology.com