Job Summary:
CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is a top 10 national professional services firm dedicated to creating opportunities for clients and communities. They are seeking an experienced Lead Machine Learning Operations Engineer to manage a team, oversee the machine-learning strategy, and ensure alignment with business goals.
Responsibilities:
• Define and execute an enterprise AI/ML platform strategy, encompassing MLOps, LLMOps, and AIOps, and build reusable frameworks and standards adopted across multiple projects and business units.
• Oversee enterprise‑scale AI platforms supporting model training, inference, evaluation, monitoring, retraining, and governance, including generative AI systems.
• Align AI and MLOps initiatives with business objectives, ensuring platforms and pipelines meet scalability, performance, security, regulatory, and cost requirements, including responsible and ethical AI considerations.
• Implement and enforce best practices for model and prompt versioning, monitoring, retraining, and automated workflows, ensuring consistent and reliable AI operations.
• Lead teams delivering shared AI infrastructure, tooling, and platforms, providing day‑to‑day leadership through coaching, development, and performance management.
• Ensure platform reliability and operational excellence by overseeing escalated issue resolution, maintaining high‑quality documentation, and driving continuous improvement.
• Track and evaluate industry trends in AI platforms, LLM ecosystems, and AI operations, translating insights into roadmap decisions and platform evolution.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 6 years of relevant experience required.
• Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and architectural mastery of object‑oriented design across dynamically typed languages.
• Broad experience integrating and governing multi‑language systems, including Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and enterprise platforms (e.g., .NET).
• Leadership‑level expertise in AI/ML platform engineering, spanning MLOps, LLMOps, and AIOps.
• Ability to define and enforce enterprise standards for AI model lifecycle management, monitoring, reliability, and cost control.
• Deep understanding of AI system observability, including drift detection, evaluation frameworks, and incident response.
• Strong experience with cloud architecture, security, compliance, and enterprise‑scale deployments.
• Proven ability to guide teams in technical decision‑making and platform strategy.
Preferred:
• Experience in MLOps, DevOps, or related fields, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Degree in computer science, data science, or related field preferred.
Company:
CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services. Founded in 1960, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.