Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Who we are

Enterprise Analytics (EA) stands at the forefront of UOB's vision, aiming to establish the bank as a leader in deploying cutting-edge Machine Learning models. Comprising a team of experts, we focus on enhancing the bank's capabilities in supporting key areas such as Risk, Wealth, Retail, etc., with a strong emphasis on coordination in data management, technology, and internal stakeholder collaboration.

Upholding to UOB’s core value of being enterprising, we are incredibly thrilled about strengthening this strategic unit’s capabilities for the bank, envisioning significant progress and innovation. We firmly believe that advanced analytics is a pivotal factor in delivering premier AI services to our stakeholders.

Your Profile

We seek individuals with highly developed conceptual, strategic, and analytical skills, capable of striking a balance between visionary thinking and practical solutions. The ability to comprehend, inspire, and mobilize others is crucial. A business-oriented mindset coupled with effective storytelling will drive your success. We are looking for self-starters ready to take on responsibilities with enthusiasm.

Your Role

As a Lead ML Engineer, you will play a leading role in operationalizing ML Models developed by UOB’s data scientists. You will serve as the focal point for ML model refactoring, optimization, containerization, deployment, and quality monitoring. Your main responsibilities will include:

- Conduct reviews for compliance of the ML models in accordance with overall platform governance principles such as versioning, data / model lineage, code best practices and provide feedback to data scientists for potential improvements
- Develop pipelines for continuous operation, feedback and monitoring of ML models leveraging best practices from the CI/CD vertical within the MLOps domain. This can include monitoring for data drift, triggering model retraining and setting up rollbacks.
- Optimize AI development environments (development, testing, production) for usability, reliability and performance.
- Work with data engineers to ensure data storage (data warehouses or data lakes) and data pipelines feeding these repositories and the ML feature or data stores are working as intended.
- Evaluate open-source and AI/ML platforms and tools for feasibility of usage and integration from an infrastructure perspective. This also involves staying updated about the newest developments, patches and upgrades to the ML platforms in use by the data science teams.

Technical Skills
- At least 10 years of experience as a ML Engineer, working with Python, ML libraries, and large-scale data processing framework.
- Advance proficiency in Python used both for ML and automation tasks.
- Experience in working with ML libraries such as Panda, NumPy, H2O, or TensorFlow.
- Experience in working with large-scale data processing framework, such as Hadoop, Spark, or Dask.
- Knowledge of OpenShift / Kubernetes is a must-have.
- Good knowledge of Bash and Unix/Linux command-line toolkit is a must-have.
- Hands on experience building CI/CD pipelines orchestration by Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or similar tools is a must-have.
- Knowledge in the operationalization of Data Science projects (MLOps) using at least one of the popular frameworks or platforms (e.g., Kubeflow, AWS Sagemaker, Google AI Platform, Azure Machine Learning, DataRobot, Dataiku, H2O, or DKube).
- Knowledge of Workflow Orchestrator, such as Airflow or Ctrl-M.
- Knowledge of Logging and Monitoring tools, such as Splunk and Geneos.
- Experience in defining the processes, standards, frameworks, prototypes and toolsets in support of AI and ML development, monitoring, testing and operationalization.
- Experience in ML operationalization and orchestration (MLOps) tools, techniques and platforms. This includes scaling delivery of models, managing and governing ML Models, and managing and scaling AI platforms.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP) would be an advantage.

Soft Skills
- Good knowledge of Devops process and principles
- Strong in Software Engineering fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
- Strong Organizational skills
- Visual Thinking

Pay: $8,500.00 - $15,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Health insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Singapore 307683