Machine Learning Engineering Specialist - AI Innovation Lab

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond, our most valuable asset is our people.

Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide.

ZSers drive impact by bringing a client first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business including portfolio strategy, customer insights, research and development, operational and technology transformation, marketing strategy and many more.

Bring your curiosity for learning; bold ideas; courage and passion to drive life changing, impact to ZS.

Our most valuable asset is our people.

At ZS we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are and

make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are part of your success here. Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces, obtaining the resources they need to thrive, and sharing the messages they are passionate about.

Architecture & Engineering Specialist ML Engineering

ZS's Scaled AI practice is part of ZS's rich and advanced AI ecosystem, in the Architecture & Engineering Expertise Center, focused on creating continuous business value for clients using a range of innovative machine learning, deep learning, and engineering capabilities.

Being part of Scaled AI practice allows you to collaborate with data scientists to create state-of-the-art AI models, create and use cutting-edge ML platforms, create and deploy advanced ML pipelines and manage the complete ML lifecycle.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement technical features leveraging best practices for technology stack being used
• Collaborate with client-facing teams to understand solution context and contribute to technical requirement gathering and analysis
• Work with technical architects on the team to validate design and implementation approach
• Write production-ready code that is easily testable, understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors
• Ensure the highest quality of deliverables by following architecture / design guidelines, coding best practices, periodic design / code reviews
• Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to handle expected edge cases and errors gracefully, as well as happy paths
• Uses bug tracking, code review, version control, and other tools to organize and deliver work
• Participate in scrum calls and agile ceremonies, and effectively communicate work progress, issues, and dependencies
• Consistently contribute in researching & evaluating the latest technologies through rapid learning, conducting proofs-of-concept and creating prototype solutions
• Support the project architect in designing modules / component of the overall project / product architecture
• Breaks down large features into estimable tasks lead estimation and can defend them with clients
• Implement complex features with limited guidance from the engineering lead. For example service or application-wide change
• Systematically debug code issues / bugs using stack traces, logs, monitoring tools, and other resources
• Performs code / script reviews of senior engineers in the team
• Mentor and groom technical talent within the team

What You’ll Bring

• At least 5+ relevant hands-on experience in deploying and productionizing ML models at scale
• Expertise in Designing, configuring, and using ML Engineering platforms like Sagemaker, MLFlow, Kubeflow, or other platforms
• Big data - Hive, Spark, Hadoop, queuing system like Apache Kafka / Rabbit MQ / AWS Kinesis
• Ability to quickly adapt to new technology and be innovative in creating solutions
• Ability to independently run POCs on new technologies and document findings to share
• Strong in at least one of the Programming languages - PySpark, Python or Java, Scala, etc. and Programming basics - Data Structures
• Hands-on experience in building metadata-driven, reusable design patterns for data pipeline, orchestration, ingestion patterns (batch, real-time)
• Experience in designing and implementation of solution on distributed computing and cloud services platform (but not limited to) - AWS, Azure, GCP
• Hands-on experience building CI / CD pipelines and awareness of practices for application monitoring

Additional Skills :

• AWS / Azure Solutions Architect certification with an understanding of broader AWS / Azure stack
• Understanding DevOps CI / CD, data security, experience in designing on cloud platform;
• Willingness to travel to other global offices as needed to work with the client or other internal project teams

Perks & Benefits :

ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health and well-being, financial planning, annual leave, personal growth and professional development.

Our robust skills development programs, multiple career progression options and internal mobility paths and collaborative culture empowers you to thrive as an individual and global team member.

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients / ZS offices for the majority of our week.

The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.