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ML Practice Leader

extra holidays - extra parental leave
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Full Remote
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Senior (5-10 years)
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Provectus Information Technology & Services SME https://www.provectus.com/
501 - 1000 Employees
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Job description

Provectus helps companies adopt ML/AI to transform the ways they operate, compete, and drive value. The focus of the company is on building ML Infrastructure to drive end-to-end AI transformations, assisting businesses in adopting the right AI use cases, and scaling their AI initiatives organization-wide in such industries as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail & CPG, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, and Internet businesses.

The role of a Practice Leader is the most important for the company’s Machine Learning practice because it is not only about managing people but also requires things to be done. A Practice Leader must have sufficient technical experience to maintain and demonstrate the best market practices while keeping abreast of the latest technologies.

Requirements:
  • We are looking for candidates that combine good software engineering experience for ML applications, and proven people management skills.

  • Technical:
  • Strong understanding of ML project lifecycle.
  • Experience in >1 of the following areas: NLP, CV, forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning.
  • Experience in productionizing of ML models (different modalities).
  • Experience with writing deep learning models from scratch.
  • Ability to make reusable components of ML pipelines.
  • Ability to justify and explain design choices one makes.
  • Practical experience with model post-production & maintenance: model and data monitoring, retraining automation, etc.
  • Practical experience with /AWS/other cloud/open source alternatives/ MLOps platforms, frameworks, and libraries.
  • Strong understanding of Python patterns & best practices.
  • Practical experience with creating training datasets involving human annotators.
  • Practical experience with a variety of data sources (OLTP, OLAP, DataLake, Streaming).
  • Practical experience with Spark, Dask, or similar (distributed data processing).

  • Management:
  • Ability to explain decisions, status, and roadmap to the development team.
  • Ability to explain decisions, status, and roadmap to non-technical customer representatives
  • Experience in team/department leadership.
  • Relationship/team building. Leadership requires building and maintaining a solid and collaborative team of individuals working toward the same goal.
  • Ability to teach and mentor. The role assumes providing employees with their career path and helping them achieve their goals.
  • Diplomatic skills. It means more than just "communication skills" and includes ethics, empathy, compassion, and the ability to resolve conflicts.
  • Calmness. People are complicated, and it is required to be ready for any objectives or misunderstandings.

  • Responsibilities:
  • Build effective teams of ML engineers.
  • Contribute to best practices of the team.
  • Share best practices and culture with the team.
  • Mentor engineers, coach Team Leads, and encourage others to share knowledge.
  • Participate in meetups, and conferences, and build community.
  • Have technical excellence and be an influencer in different teams/projects.
  • Hire and onboard newcomers.
  • Conduct performance reviews and 1-on-1 meetings.
  • Identify and address team gaps in knowledge.
  • Evaluate, improve, and maintain processes.
  • Сollaborate with other managers across the company.
  • Communicate and follow the company's mission, vision, and values.
  • Required profile

    Experience

    Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
    Industry :
    Information Technology & Services
    Spoken language(s):
    English
    Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory.

    Other Skills

    • Calmness Under Pressure
    • Mentorship
    • Team Leadership
    • Verbal Communication Skills
    • Diplomacy
    • Forecasting
    • Relationship Building

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