Lead Software Engineer managing MLOps team within Sun Life’s Analytics Platform. Collaborating with various technical and business teams, focusing on AWS cloud services and machine learning operations.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for the MLOps squad within the Analytics Platform, influencing architecture and standards across multiple teams
Design, build, and evolve production-grade MLOps and ML platform capabilities, including model lifecycle management, CI/CD, evaluation, monitoring, and governance
Spend ~ 60% hands-on in software engineering, building high-quality, testable, maintainable services, frameworks, APIs, and shared libraries that enable ML and GenAI at scale
Spend ~ 40% on platform, cloud, and MLOps enablement, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, observable, and cost-effective
Act as a technical authority for AWS-based ML platforms, leading design decisions and guiding adoption of new cloud and GenAI services
Establish and evolve engineering and MLOps standards, patterns, and best practices across squads
Partner closely with Architecture, Security, Risk, and Product teams to reduce delivery, operational, and model governance risk
Lead by example through code reviews, design reviews, incident analysis, and operational improvements
Mentor senior and intermediate engineers, raising the overall technical bar without direct people management
Requirements
A deep software engineering background, with a strong track record of building and operating large-scale, production systems
Extensive hands-on experience with AWS in production, including infrastructure design, deployment, and optimization
Strong experience with Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
CI/CD pipelines and automation
Observability, reliability, and incident response
Practical experience with MLOps, ModelOps, ML platforms, or LLMOps in enterprise environments
Proficiency in one or more of: Python, Java, Scala, and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform / CloudFormation)
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
Hybrid work arrangements as a condition of the role.
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