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Matlen Silver

AI/ML/GenAI (Senior Data Engineer)

Hybrid

Jersey city, United states

$ 90 /hour

Senior

Freelance

19-12-2025

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Skills

Leadership Python Java Scala Big Data Data Governance CI/CD DevOps Kubernetes Monitoring Training Architecture Agile SDLC Numpy Pandas Analytics Data Science Spark Kafka

Job Specifications

Tech Lead – AI/ML/GenAI (Senior Data Engineer)

Jersey City, JC | Dallas, TX | Charlotte, NC

Hybrid 3 days onsite 2 days remote

18 Month W2 Contract

$60-$90/hour

Candidate must possess a passion for producing high quality software and solutions for AI/ML and be ready to jump in and solve complex problems and perform code writing and reviews.

This role is responsible for providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight to a team as they deliver technology solutions. Key responsibilities of the role include developing solutions and processes for delivering features based on their knowledge of design/architectural patterns and Agile/DevOps practices. This role ensures the systems design and requirements are aligned to achieve the desired business outcomes, and that team practices and coding/quality principles are aligned to achieve the desired technology outcomes. They have built significant experience through multiple software implementations and have developed both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or engineering or related field
8+ years of experience in platform development, architecture, and strategy for data science, modeling, and advanced analytics
Experience building E2E analytics platform focusing on self-service for as Data science, Big Data platform, Analytics etc.- Experience building E2E ML pipelines: Data prep, Model Build, training models, Deployment, Scoring, Monitoring and Optimization
Experience working with technical and line of business users to gather the requirements, writing BRD for building platform, brainstorm with different set of tech and non-tech audience, document the details with conceptual diagrams, validate the tech feasibilities of capabilities by researching and working with tech teams, architects and engineers
Reviews technical designs to ensure that they are consistent with defined architecture principles, standards, and best practices. Own technical decisions for the solution and application developers in the creation of architectural decisions and artifacts. Ability to clearly communicate with team & stakeholders
Collaborate with product teams, data analysts and data scientists to design and build solutions
Manage next generation of architectural decision for advanced analytics platform, create strategy, roadmaps, present to tech and non-tech leaders
Strong understanding of modern open source based data science platform architecture for storage & compute separation, interactive development workbenches, virtual environments, containers, and toolsets such as Jupyter, Spyder, VSCode and how they work with open source languages & libraries such as Python, R, H2O, SciKitLearn, Pandas, NumPy etc.
Hands on experience on implementing CI/CD and automation using the Atlassian ecosystem
Knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, and principles of data governance
Experience designing and building full stack solutions utilizing distributed computing architecture
Design and build and deploy streaming and batch data pipelines capable of processing and storing large datasets quickly and reliably using Kafka, Spark and YARN
Good understanding and knowledge of processing and deployment technologies such YARN, Kubernetes/containers and serverless
Experience working on Java, Scala or Python based tools and technologies
Accountable for the availability, stability, scalability, security, and recoverability enabled by the designs
Support the company’s commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Desired Qualifications

Agile SDLC frameworks

About the Company

Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created solutions experiences and a legacy of success that makes a difference in the way the world works. Know more