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Machine Learning Engineer at Discovery Limited

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification Bachelors
  • Experience 1 – 3 years
  • Location Gauteng
  • Job Field Data, Business Analysis and AI&nbsp , ICT / Computer&nbsp

Machine Learning Engineer at Discovery Limited

Machine Learning Engineer

Job Purpose

  • We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic Machine Learning Engineer to join our Machine Learning Operations team. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring machine learning and analytics applications and processes. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the automation of machine learning and AI use cases. You will work closely with data scientists, actuaries, data engineers, and other software engineers to contribute to architecting the bank’s modern Machine Learning ecosystem.

Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to:
Machine Learning Automation and Software Engineering:

  • Design, build, and deploy machine learning and analytics automation processes.
  • Refactor existing code bases to enhance efficiency, robustness (in terms of testing, code quality), scalability and automation of machine learning workflows.

Cloud-Native Development:

  • Utilize Databricks and Azure as a primary platform for data engineering and machine learning use cases.
  • Work within the Azure ecosystem, leveraging services such as Azure Functions, CosmosDB, API Gatway, Azure Machine Learning, etc. to build intelligent data applications.

DevOps, Version Control, and Software Engineering:

  • Build out CI/CD pipelines to improve development and deployment practices. Hands-on experience with Git and DevOps tools such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps is required.
  • Build robust testing and monitoring capabilities for machine learning and AI use cases.
  • Knowledge of Terraform is advantageous.
  • Experience building APIs to serve machine learning models.
  • Apply software engineering best practices to develop robust, scalable, and maintainable code.
  • Create microservice applications using Docker and container orchestration tools like OpenShift.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions software solutions for machine learning and data use cases.
  • Create and maintain documentation of processes, technologies, and code bases.

Machine Learning Frameworks:

  • Familiarity with machine learning frameworks/packages such as MLFlow, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc is beneficial for the productionization of machine learning use cases.

Collaboration:

  • Collaborate closely with data scientists, actuaries, data engineers, and other data software engineers to understand and address their data needs.
  • Contribute actively to the architecting of our bank’s modern Machine Learning data ecosystem.

Education and Experience:

  • At least 1-3 years’ working experience as a Software Engineer.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field. Other qualifications will be considered if accompanied by sufficient experience in software engineering.

Technical skills or knowledge:

  • 2-years’ experience using Python, SQL.
  • Exposure to Linux shell scripting advantageous.
  • Experience with Spark is advantageous.
  • Experience and interest in software architecture.
  • Knowledge of cloud compute services.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Discovery Limited on careers.discovery.co.za to apply

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