Senior Data Scientist

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What project we have for you

Join a transformative data and AI platform initiative aimed at modernizing enterprise-scale capabilities and enabling real-time decision-making. This project delivers a comprehensive roadmap covering AI, MLOps, data governance, and platform scalability, supporting a shift towards data-first operations and intelligent automation.

What you will do

• Platform setup. With customer's platform team, provision and configure the Databricks environment in customer's cloud account: catalog and permissions, compute (including GPU), secrets, experiment tracking.
• Secure data ingestion. Build repeatable ingestion of raw verification outputs and document images: parsing, pseudonymisation, data-quality checks, schema handling.
• Feature engineering at scale. Implement the feature tables:
• batch image-embedding jobs;
• exact and approximate linkage keys;
• cross-transaction and velocity aggregates;
• pseudonymous entity resolution.
• Modelling support. Implement feature-selection and mixed-data clustering methods. Run model comparisons and stability tests, and support density-model training runs.
• Automation. Orchestrate the end-to-end pipeline as a scheduled, idempotent, re-runnable workflow.
• Monitoring. Set up the data-quality and drift-monitoring prototype, with alerting, on feature and score tables.
• Privacy engineering. Implement access controls, provenance fields, lineage and the scripted deletion procedure. Confirm that no raw personal data reaches the analytic layer.
• Documentation and handover. Write runbooks and give a live walkthrough, so engineers can operate everything independently

What you need for this

• PySpark & Spark SQL: Nested-JSON flattening (explode, structs),`mapInPandas` / pandas UDFs, window functions for velocity and distinct-count aggregates, partitioning and performance tuning
• Databricks: Unity Catalog (catalogs, schemas, grants, column masks, tags, lineage), external locations on S3, cluster / compute policies incl. GPU, Auto Loader, Delta (MERGE, time travel, VACUUM), Workflows, Repos, secret scopes
• AWS: S3, IAM roles / instance profiles, KMS decryption in jobs, Secrets Manager, basic cost awareness
• Data engineering for ML: Medallion design (Bronze / Silver / Gold), schema evolution, idempotent loads, DQ profiling, Feature Engineering in UC (feature tables)
• Pseudonymisation in pipelines: HMAC tokenization with per-key-type keys, normalisation (Unicode NFKD, case, token sort), phonetic keys, never logging raw values, scripted deletion (DROP / VACUUM / secret destruction)
• Entity resolution (implementation): Blocking / candidate generation with exact and approximate keys, edit-distance tolerance, match scores, surrogate IDs, conflict counting rather than merging
• Image processing at scale: Running a GPU batch job that decrypts, crops and embeds images in memory (PyTorch / timm), PCA, LSH bucketing
• Mixed-data clustering: Hands-on: `kmodes` (k-prototypes), `gower` + `kmedoids` with sampling, R `kamila` on Databricks, `StepMix` (latent class), bootstrap ARI
• Feature selection: Mutual information, correlation pruning, PCA. Can run a BPSO / GA search with`mealpy`
• MLOps & monitoring: M*Lflow experiments and registry (aliases), Lakehouse Monitoring * (profile and drift metrics on Delta tables), SQL alerts, PSI / JS divergence
• Handover: Writes runbooks and README-level documentation. Leaves a single end-to-end Workflow that someone else can run

Nice to have

• Experience with AssureID / identity-verification JSON outputs.
• PyOD and basic PyTorch training (to support A on the VAEs in week 2).