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The work:
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Code Ownership

• Set technical direction for an 8-10 person engineering team.
• Serve as primary architect and code-quality gatekeeper (review/merge all GitHub PRs).
• Define and enforce standards for architecture, performance, testing, documentation, and CI/CD.
• Own the end-to-end codebase for a distributed forecasting platform built on Python and Apache Spark (GCP).
• Champion and evolve the internal ML tooling library used for training, evaluation, metrics, and visualization.

Forecasting Platform Development

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and feature engineering workflows for intermittent and lumpy MRO/spare-parts demand.
• Extend and improve metrics instrumentation (sMAPE, MASE, Dollar-Weighted MAE, bias, diagnostics).
• Support multi-model training, evaluation, selection, calibration, and DFU lifecycle management.
• Integrate and maintain MLflow for experiment tracking, model registry, and reproducibility.
• Convert research prototypes into high-quality, production-grade components within the shared library.

Blue Yonder Integration

• Act as the technical interface between the ML Forecasting Factory and Blue Yonder workflows.
• Ensure forecast outputs, calibration parameters, and hierarchy-level signals align with Blue Yonder's format and multi-model framework.
• Collaborate with planning stakeholders to maintain compatibility with proportional allocation logic and DFU lifecycle behavior.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and architectural leadership to engineering teammates.
• Translate business needs into engineering specs in partnership with data scientists.
• Operate as a hands-on contributor with daily codebase involvement.

Here is what you need:

• US citizenship (Secret eligibility)
• BS degree
• 5+ years of professional production Python engineering experience.
• Experience building or maintaining shared internal Python libraries or ML tooling packages.
• Strong proficiency with Pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn.
• Proven Staff/Principal-level technical leadership with architectural ownership and PR-based code stewardship.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data processing using Apache Spark.
• Hands-on experience with GCP services such as Dataproc, BigQuery, and GCS.
• Strong Git/GitHub fluency (branching, PR workflows, release management).
• Ability to mentor and lead engineers and PMs with clarity and technical credibility.

Preferred experience:

• Active DoD Secret clearance highly desired
• ML engineering background including training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, MLflow, and deployment patterns.
• Production or near-production experience with TensorFlow and/or PyTorch.
• Experience with forecasting/time-series libraries such as sktime or AutoGluon.
• Familiarity with Blue Yonder (JDA) or similar enterprise planning platforms, especially multi-model forecasting and DFU management.

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