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Lead Machine Learning Engineer
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Work mode:
Remote
Published on:
4 September 2026
What they need
We're Hiring | Lead Machine Learning Engineer Databricks
Location: Hybrid (Chennai/Bangalore/Pune/Hyderabad)/Remote
Experience: 8+ Years
Department: AI/ML CoE - Machine Learning
Employment Type: Full-Time
We are looking for an experienced Lead Machine Learning Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of an enterprise-grade ML Platform and Feature Store on Databricks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and implementation of the enterprise ML platform on Databricks.
- Build end-to-end MLOps workflows covering development, training, testing, registration, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and rollback.
- Design and implement enterprise Feature Stores, feature pipelines, governance, lineage, versioning, and reuse.
- Productionize ML/Data Science models and develop scalable batch and real-time inference solutions.
- Implement model monitoring, data quality, drift detection, explain ability, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Establish standards for security, governance, observability, reliability, reproducibility, and lineage.
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Cloud, Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams.
- Mentor engineers and Data Scientists while driving strong software and ML engineering practices.
Must-Have Skills:
8+ years of experience in ML / Data Science / MLOps / ML Engineering
Strong hands-on Databricks MLOps experience
Expert-level Python & SQL
MLflow
Unity Catalog
Delta Lake
Databricks Workflows & Jobs
Model Registry
CI/CD & Continuous Training (CT) pipelines
Production Feature Store & Feature Engineering
Strong Azure Cloud & Azure DevOps experience
ML lifecycle management, monitoring, drift, lineage & reproducibility
Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management
Preferred
- Databricks Certifications
- Azure Certifications
- Machine Learning Engineering Certifications
- Experience building enterprise AI/ML platforms
- Experience with large-scale production ML systems
Note:
- Only candidates with strong exp in ML will be considered.
- Candidates from core Data Scientist/Data Engineer is not suitable
If you have relevant skills & experience, kindly share your CV to [email protected]
"PLEASE DO NOT SPAM"
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