Team Lead/ Senior Software Engineer for Machine Learning Platform

DSK Bank is one of the leading banks in Bulgaria, with a great IT team of more than 250 IT talents, experiencing professional growth and development every day.

Our Advanced Analytics and AI Department is building state-of-the-art technology (machine learning platform and models) in order to enable data-driven decision making for various advanced analytics uses cases / applications (e.g. pricing, churn, propensity-to-buy, campaign automation etc.). Machine Learning Platform is foundational solution that enables multiple use-cases inside the Bank: machine learning model development and deployment, customer offer computation and automating real-time customer journeys.

We are looking for talented and self-driven professional, that will lead the team designing and developing our Machine Learning Platform (MLP). Our MLP is built on Azure Cloud, using Azure services, open-source tools and custom developed code. It is a great opportunity to really make an impact on banking!

Team Lead – Sr. Software Engineer for Machine Learning Platform

Responsibilities:

· Owns the MLP architecture and roadmap

· Align with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Markets, IT Cloud & IT On Prem, InfoSec & other teams on future development of Machine Learning Platform

· Lead integration of MLP with other Bank’s systems

· Ensure stable operation of production environment, provide all required observability stack, maintain runbooks and incident response procedures

· R&D infrastructure & service improvements via new approaches, frameworks, etc.

· Proposals for changes

· Collaborate with the data scientists’ team to improve the monitoring of the machine learning models performance.

· Participates in different digital projects and cross functional teams.

Expectations

· Strong python experience (sqlalchemy, fastapi, etc.)

· Docker & Kubernetes knowledge

· Understanding of software design patterns and testing

· Ownership mentality, curiosity & pro-active approach

· Verbal and written English

Ideal candidate

· Knowledge of relational databases (Postgres) and streams (Kafka)

· Azure and Databricks experience

· Experience with Java or Scala

Your challenges

We are building a Machine Learning Platform and we will require low-latency features- and data-stores for real-time model-serving. Hence there are a handful of challenges for our Development team:

· Design and build micro-services to facilitate fast pace of change

· Create state-of-the-art model serving architecture

· Engrain development, testing & deployment best practices to reduce risks and amount of mundane work

What we offer to you:

· Excellent opportunities for professional and career development in one of Bulgaria’s leading banks;

· Food vouchers in the amount of 200 BGN per month;

· 25 paid holiday leave;

· Additional Health Insurance;

· Favorable conditions for housing and mortgage lending, as well as for bank products and services;

· Annual bonus scheme depending on the achieved results;

· Preferential conditions for Multisport / CoolFit card;

· Great location;

· Discounts in various companies;

· Professional trainings for specific knowledge and skills (internal academies);

· Refer a Friend Bonus.

If you are challenged by this opportunity, we would be glad to review your application.