Machine Learning Engineer

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy & consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

"Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

The Data and AI revolution is changing everything. It's everywhere - transforming how we work and play. Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. Accenture Applied Intelligence is driving these exciting changes and bringing them to life across 40 industries in more than 120 countries. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate with the ecosystem, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Accenture's Applied Intelligence practice covers the range of Data and AI skills, from Strategy, Data Science, Data Architecture, AI Engineering and Visual Insights. When combined with Accenture's broader Strategy and Consulting practice, we are able to bring together the unique ability to drive end to end business change through the application of Data and AI.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways

If you're looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn: 

At the forefront of the industry, you'll create, own and make it a reality for clients looking to better serve their connected customers and operate always-on enterprises. 

Become an integral part of our Applied Intelligence team with the credibility, expertise and insight clients depend on.

You will be working with famous brands and household names - no worrying about how to explain what you do to your family again!

In this role you will:

Drive the vision for modern data and analytics platform to deliver well architected and engineered data and analytics products leveraging cloud tech stack and third-party products

Close the gap between ML research and production to create ground-breaking new products, features and solve problems for our customers.

Design, develop, test, and deploy data pipelines, machine learning infrastructure and client-facing products and services.

Build and implement machine learning models and prototype solutions for proof-of-concept.

Scale existing ML models into production on a variety of cloud platforms

Analyse and resolve architectural problems, working closely with engineering, data science and operations teams

Perform technical architecture assessments and provide improvements and focus areas

Provide best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for use across ML engineering and architecture communities 

Communicate and provide guidance to senior client leadership and teams

Contribute ML Engineering expertise to new sales activities

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

Experience developing and architecting software, with experience of the full lifecycle from prototype to production.

Experience with machine learning, data mining and/or statistical analysis

Experience managing key elements of a data and ML platform: scalable data pipelines, feature stores, data warehouse, metadata, data quality, data security and protection

A leader in exceptional software engineering practices including coding standards, reviews, testing and operations.

Strong experience in agile practices and CI/CD

Hands-on experience in development, deployment and operation of data technologies and platforms such as:

Integration - APIs, micro-services and ETL/ELT patterns 

DevOps - Ansible, Jenkins, ELK 

Containerisation - Docker, Kubernetes etc 

Orchestration - Airflow, Step Functions, Ctrl M etc.

Languages and scripting: Python, Scala Java etc

Cloud Services - AWS, GCP, Azure and Cloud Native

Analytics and ML tooling - Sagemaker, ML Studio

Execution Paradigm - low latency/Streaming, batch and micro batch processing 

Data platforms - Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka etc.) and Data Warehouse (Teradata, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake etc.) 

Visualisation Tools - PowerBI, Tableau

Set yourself apart:

Willingness and ability to learn quickly and apply creative thinking to finding great solutions and drive them to completion.

Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team where you enjoyed being the technical expert and enabling others.

Strong written and verbal communication skills

What's in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries " powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. 

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications: 31/08/21

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found