Tech Lead- AI ML

As our Tech Lead in AI/ML, you will play a crucial role in the hands-on development of mentoring peers and delivery of AI products powered by our internal AI models and machine learning pipelines. You'll identify new opportunities for AI solutions throughout the organization, and set the direction and roadmap required to implement MLOPS. You will partner with the team through the creation of AI models, and develop, and deploy LLM-based applications in production, evaluating and improving their performance and accuracy over time. Collaborating closely with Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you’ll ensure seamless integration of AI technologies into our products, setting new standards for data quality and model performance. 

Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and maintain a AI/ML platform that is accurate, secure, and fast 
• Lead workstreams within a lean and agile environment from requirements gathering to creating a plan of actionable tasks for the team 
• Provide coaching, and mentorship to members of the data team on architecture, software development best practices, and new technologies
• Establish evaluation criteria for data quality tracking and production ML model tracking
• Partner with product, research, and engineering to ensure product changes integrate effectively

 Required Qualifications

• 6+ years in MLOps, ML engineering, MLOps, and data science with 2+ years leading and mentoring agile teams.
• Proven expertise in deploying essential MLOps components like CI/CD, model registry, and input loading 
• Skilled in creating and launching diverse models (statistical, LLM, GenAI, GPT 3.5/4.0) from POC to production 
• Proven ability to manage projects and programs, leading small teams (2-5 members) and directly handling data analysis, modeling, data pipeline setup, and MLOps 
• Skilled in AIML, using platforms like AWS, Amazon Bedrock, and Snowflake, and proficient in Python, SQL, Tableau, and Altery
• 3+ years of experience working with Jupyter Notebooks, Git, GitHub, JIRA, and weights & biases, enhancing collaboration and version control in project development
• Significant collaboration with research teams, contributing hands-on research skills that advance project outcomes
•  Previous experience working in Private Markets, Financial Services or FinTech space

 Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of Tech Lead and management experience; taking on role as player coach and providing mentorship
• Experience migrating data sets and workflows between legacy data platforms and services
• Familiarity with stream processing and event driven architecture
• Comfortable moving quickly and working in a fast-paced, agile XP, lean environment 
• Experience in leading offshore and nearshore teams is highly valued