Job Description

Are you an innovative technical expert, looking for an opportunity to use your technology skills and strengths to impact a product centric data and analytics organization within an enterprise? Are you looking for an opportunity where you will be able to help various products and services teams build their solutions in a modular fashion, which enables an end-to-end customer journey in an integrated fashion? Are you looking to go beyond just platforms and technologies and build true value add, self-serve data and analytics products? If so, come join us and help us build one of the industry’s most complete and advanced data and analytics eco system.

As the Senior Data Science Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for developing solutions to support the delivery of product roadmaps for multiple Data Science platforms. You will engage with technical product manager, architect, and other members of the organization to design and deliver solutions to address business needs. You will also be responsible for testing the solutions, updating SDLC documentation and releasing capabilities as part of specific product releases.

What you'll do

• Build capabilities within multiple Data Science platforms based on customer needs. This may include Posit, Dataiku or Databricks platform upgrades and modernization, building custom platform capabilities using various coding languages (R, Python etc.), using AWS services, building CI/CD deployment solutions, monitoring the platforms, and building platform automation scripts.

• Collaborate with different product teams to design and develop platform integrations.

• Work with Product Managers and architects to design technical solution to address business needs, develop technical documentation and knowledge-sharing resources for Data Science platforms.

• Enable new capabilities in Posit, Dataiku or Databricks (AI & ML) and other platforms within specified timelines.

• Troubleshoot platform issues, provide root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures to mitigate issues going forward.

• Estimate the effort required to deploy a new capability and deliver it within the agreed upon timelines.

• Conduct thorough testing and quality assurance to ensure the reliability robustness, and accuracy of the platforms.

• Provide technical expertise and support to internal stakeholders and implementation teams.

• Effectively engage, both in person and virtually, with a global, multi-cultural team across different products to identify and leverage synergies.

• Good understanding of Data Science concepts.

• Experience working on Agile teams and knowledge of Scrum framework.

• Knowledge of SDLC.

We offer:

• Competitive remuneration

• Position in an industry leading global company

• Challenging career

• Professional growth based on performance

• Innovative working environment

Required skills

• A strong understanding of the Posit, Dataiku or Databricks (AI & ML) ecosystem, Base R & Python

• Expert knowledge of either AWS cloud eco system, including storage services, database services, streaming and messaging services, AI/ML, and cognitive services, scalability services such as EKS.

• Knowledge of R/Python programming, data manipulation, content creation (shiny, streamlit, dash, etc.) using the Posit, Dataiku or Databricks tools.

• Expertise in installing, configuring, and maintaining Posit (Package Manager, Connect and Workbench) server environments.

• Experience and knowledge of different Linux distributions (e.g. RHEL,Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian)

• Skills to manage user authentication and authorization, implement access controls, and enforce security policies within the Posit environment.

• Experience and knowledge of Ansible, an open-source automation tool, to define the tasks required to implement changes in the Posit infrastructure consistently.

• Knowledge in scripting languages like Shell scripting, or PowerShell to help automate routine administrative tasks.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field and 3+ years of experience in platform engineering and IT development projects.

Nice to have skills

• Knowledge of SLURM

• Knowledge of containerization platforms like Docker

• Knowledge of integrating Posit with other systems and databases (Posit professional drivers, integrating with Artifactory and Bitbucket).

• Ability to maintain accurate documentation of Data Science platform configurations, procedures, and best practices.

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Regular

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Software Development, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model

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Job Posting End Date:

05/28/2025

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