Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Senior Data Scientist (ML Engineer) OVA5861

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Hybrid)  •  24 days ago
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Job Description

Senior ML Engineer (12-Month Contract)

Location: Hybrid

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for a 12-month contract to operationalize, scale, and manage production-grade ML, AI, and GenAI solutions. You will focus on building robust MLOps pipelines on Databricks, deploying AI Agents and RAG solutions, and hosting containerized models and custom microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Responsibilities include:

  • Databricks & MLOps Pipelines: Productionize, automate, and monitor ML pipelines, model serving, and workflows using Databricks, MLflow, and Mosaic AI with full CI/CD practices.
  • GenAI & Agent Deployment: Build, deploy, and support enterprise GenAI applications, AI Agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions.
  • Kubernetes & API Engineering: Deploy and optimize open-source AI models and custom REST microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Model Observability & Support: Monitor model drift, operational health, performance, and infrastructure costs in production; resolve technical issues across APIs and pipelines.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Data Scientists to transition prototypes into scalable, compliant enterprise assets.

Requirements include:

  • Education: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematical Statistics, Actuarial Science, Econometrics, or a quantitative field.
  • Platform & Containerization: Strong hands-on experience with Databricks (MLflow, Model Serving) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Core Tech Stack: High proficiency in Python, SQL, and REST API development.
  • MLOps & CI/CD: Demonstrated experience building automated CI/CD deployment pipelines, model monitoring, and observability frameworks.
  • GenAI & Production ML: Practical experience deploying machine learning models, LLMs, RAG architectures, and microservices into live enterprise environments.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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