Senior Data Engineer

Company: Sodexo -Group
Location: Irvine
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

Unit Description
Sodexo is accelerating its' data journey to boost sustainable business growth and enhance service offerings to consumers, clients and employees. A Data Community is being created to support Data quality monitoring and improvement through businesses and functions. The Global Data Governance Office coordinates efforts to standardize and improve data quality methodology and practices throughout Sodexo.
We are searching for a Senior Data Engineer who will design and build scalable and reliable ML/AI solutions integrating and optimizing algorithms at every stage of the Product life cycle -
This is a hybrid position, - we are seeking candidates located in the Irvine, CA region. -
The successful candidate will:

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• Provide support during the scoping and minimum viable model phases
  
• Design and co-implement functional blocks to ensure a scalable and reliable - ML/AI solution all along the product life cycle
  
• Drive innovation within Sodexo recommending & testing new AI/ML technologies
  
  Is this the right opportunity for you? - We are looking for candidates that have/are:
  
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  • Excellent knowledge of Python and experience in Scala.
    
  • Good understanding of both OOP and functional programming.
    
  • Experience with Java and C# are a plus but Python is mandatory.
    
  • Experience with R is a plus
    
  • Experience with Spark is a must with knowledge of message based systems (service bus, Kafka, Stream).
    
  • Experience in Azure Databricks is a plus.
    
  • Knowledge of Container - based technologies: Docker and Kubernetes
    
  • Architecture and cloud patterns: Microservices (Azure Functions) architectures, SOA architectures, API design practices (HATEOAS, GraphQL, etc)
    
  • Databases: SQL (Azure SQL Server) and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, CosmosDB, MongoDB).
    
  • Proven experience of Snowflake is a plus.
    
  • Excellent knowledge of data structures
    
  • Excellent knowledge of big data oriented file formats (Parquet/Delta, ORC, AVRO)
    
  • Experience in dashboarding and visualization tools is a plus (PowerBI in particular).
    
  • Experience in Azure Machine Learning Services is a plus
    
    Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.
    Not the job for you? At Sodexo, we offer positions that support a variety of career goals working in diverse business segments, including Corporate Headquarters, Corporate, Schools, Universities, Government and Agencies, Healthcare, Senior Living and Sports and Leisure locations across the United States. Continue your search today.Working for Sodexo:How far will your ambition, talent and dedication take you? Sodexo fosters a culture committed to the growth of individuals through continuous learning, mentoring and career growth opportunities.
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    What We Offer
    Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.
    Position Summary
    In collaboration with a cross-functional feature team (AI Product Manager, Data Engineer, DevOps, etc), the Data Engineer Data Lab objective is to design and build scalable and reliable ML/AI solutions integrating and optimizing algorithms at every stage of the Product life cycle (e.g. MVM, MVP, Industrialization, etc).
    40%
    - Provide - support - during - the - scoping - and Minimum Viable Model phases
    - Co-realize the data and tech due diligence and SoTA* analysis
    - Guarantee - correct - exploratory - environment setup
    - Provide - workload - estimation - on - the - product backlog to the AI Product Manager
    40%- Design and co-implement functional blocks to - ensure - a - scalable - and - reliable - ML/AI solution all along the product life cycle
    - Design and build pipelines on an ad hoc basis
    - Measure - cost - effectiveness - of - the - different transformation pipelines scenario
    - Embed monitoring metrics into products-Design MVP target architectures-Package, document - -code and infrastructure
    - Optimize - ML/AI - algorithm - performances - in distributed systems (e.g. model response time, optimization of the parallelism, etc)
    20% -- Drive innovation within Sodexo recommending & testing new AI/ML technologies
    - Conduct technological watch
    - Test new technologies in the context of use cases MVMs & MVPs
    - Communicate on new - market - technologies which could bring value to Sodexo
    - Participate to selecting new service providers (e.g. RFP)
    Qualifications & Requirements
    Basic Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experienceBasic Management Experience: 0-7 yearsBasic Functional Experience: 7 years
    Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

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