AI Engineer in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Introduction: Avanade’s AI Engineer role is responsible for developing scalable AI solutions aligned to a business strategy and benefits case. The role will be to work as part of a team to impact real world problems by delivering technical AI work. To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about Data & AI, a continuous learner, and a strong team player.

Come join us: As an AI Engineer, you will be based in Avanade’s AI Studio and will help clients understand and extract insight and value from their data using Machine Learning and AI techniques. Working as part of a team, you will be involved in all phases of analytics projects including question formulation, design, research and development, implementation, and testing. This role will explore and understand data and build advanced solutions that could be predictive, prescriptive, or optimize.

What you’ll do:

• Customer onboarding, nominations, and vetting processes

• Proof of Concept design, lab scheduling, and monitoring of overall governance of AI Studio

• Provide Studio tours, manage demo showcase, and process improvements

• Conduct customer satisfaction surveys and share key learnings, run customer engagement reports and project retrospective reports as well as provide Studio summary for customer & logging product bugs with engineering team

• Produce innovative solutions for Avanade’s clients driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and high-dimensional datasets, both structured and unstructured, applying advanced statistical, machine-learning and AI techniques.

• Use a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive models and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data.

• Communicate insights and deliver plans that steer business strategy and decision-making for one or more business segments.

Skills and experiences:

• Demonstrable professional experience with applying Machine Learning, analysis, and modeling of large scale and complex data sets in Industry scenarios.

• Highly skilled in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, simulation and optimization algorithms.

• Proficient in one or more statistical modeling tools and Cognitive analytics like text analytics, image recognition, video analytics etc.- proficient in model identification by use case/industry and knowledge of applying models to enterprise use cases.

• Highly proficient with two or more languages, such as Python, PySpark, R, SQL, etc. and tools like Databricks, Azure ML and Azure Cognitive Services

• Software engineering experience using DevOps principals (Knowledge of DevOps workflows, Git, containers, CICD, etc.)

• Good communication and presentation skills. Able to explain complex analytical methodologies and concepts in non-technical language to audiences at multiple skill levels

• Bonus Skills: Preference for prior experience working with Azure or cloud-based technologies such as AWS or GCP but not required.

• Ability to obtain a Canadian reliability security clearance

• Ability to communicate in both written and spoken English & French is nice to have, but not required for this role

About you:

• You likely possess a degree in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, Economics/Econometrics, Engineering or another relevant field in the industry. An equivalent combination of education and experience will also suffice.

• You likely have about 2-4 years of demonstrable experience across the advanced analytics space, preferably in a consulting environment or a combination of experience and relevant education.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade :

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (18 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

Learn more:

To learn more about the types of projects our Analytics team works on check out these case studies:

• [3] thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance

• [4] What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

• [5] Avanade Insights – exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation

• [6] Inside Avanade – explore what life is like working at Avanade

References

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1. https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits

2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity

3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/thyssenkrupp

4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai

5. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights

6. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.