
Senior Director, Data Engineering – MLOps Lead
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Alpharetta • Connecticut • Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $153,700 - $253,700 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead the advancement of Business Insurance's MLOps and LLMOps practices across the full modeling lifecycle, driving end-to-end automation, observability, and scalability of our predictive models.
- Own and execute a technical roadmap focused on deployment automation, feature management, model monitoring & observability, and tools for GenAI and agentic solutions.
- Partner closely with data scientists, architects, and technology teams to help shape Business Insurance's MLOps strategy.
- Streamline processes and standardize implementation patterns to accelerate the delivery of high-quality, reliable ML and AI solutions at scale.
- Execute data strategies to support various consumption patterns and identify enterprise architecture, platform, and application infrastructure needs.
- Drive the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions.
- Present analysis and recommendations to help influence management and executive leadership decisions.
- Guide and coach senior team members to accelerate career development.
- Establish budgets, policies and practices with significant impact on area operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent.
- Eight or more years of related work experience.
- Four or more years of team leadership experience.
- Proven experience advancing MLOps implementation and deployment practices from foundational to mature operational states.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional execution while contributing to strategic planning and organizational direction.
- Experience managing technical teams of 3-4 direct reports, with capability to oversee Director-level personnel as the organization scales.
- Strong background in artificial intelligence and machine learning with depth exceeding traditional data engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with industry-standard ML frameworks and platforms, including: Cloud ML Services (AWS SageMaker), Data Science Platforms (Databricks), Machine Learning Algorithms (Gradient Boosting Models), Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and DevOps Practices (CI/CD, Automated Deployment, Automated Testing).
- Interest and aptitude for emerging technologies including Large Language Models (LLM's), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems.
- Subject matter expertise in data tools, techniques, and manipulation including cloud platforms, programming languages, and technology platforms.
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Hard Skills & Tools
MLOpsLLMOpsdeployment automationmodel monitoringfeature managementmachine learningartificial intelligencecloud ML servicesdeep learningdata manipulation
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic planningcross-functional executioncoachingcommunicationinfluencingbudget managementpolicy establishmentprocess streamliningteam development
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in STEM