Data and AI Engineer

Uturndata; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Excellent medical coverage

401k

Ongoing technical training

Transit reimbursement

Doughnuts

Job summary

Uturn Data Solutions is seeking a passionate individual for data engineering and AI/ML roles in Chicago. You will collaborate with teams to implement data pipelines and deliver enterprise-level ML solutions, while maintaining awareness of AWS technologies.

The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience, preferably with a Bachelor’s Degree and cloud certifications. Enjoy great benefits including flexible hours, comprehensive medical coverage, and ongoing training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred.
• 3+ years in data engineering or AI/ML.
• SQL experience with stored procedures and CTEs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects and engineers to implement data pipelines.
• Deliver enterprise-level ML solutions using IaC and CI/CD.
• Stay updated on AWS and GenAI developments.

Skills

Data engineering

AI/ML experience

SQL proficiency

Cloud platform usage

Data modeling and governance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Cloud certifications

Tools

Airflow

DBT

Glue

Fivetran

Terraform

Snowflake

Apache Spark

Job description

UTurn Data Solutions is a technology services firm helping businesses achieve digital transformation through the use of cloud technologies. Recognized by Crain’s as one of Chicago’s fastest growing companies in 2024 (#9) and 2023 (#11), we are market leaders in leveraging the power of AWS to accelerate innovation, increase operational efficiency and help our clients future proof their businesses.

As one of the top AWS partners in the Midwest we specialize in AWS Migration, designing and implementing cloud native architectures, building analytics platforms and enabling automation through DevOps. An Advanced Tier AWS Consulting Partner and AWS Well Architected Partner, UTurn is headquartered in Chicago with offices in the River North neighborhood.

We are looking for sharp, disciplined, and self-motivated individuals who have a passion for solving real-world data-centric challenges for our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with architects, customers, and senior engineers to implement data pipelines, platforms, lakes, warehouses, and architectures
• Deliver enterprise-level ML and GenAI solutions via IaC and CI/CD
• Continuous learning: staying up to date on AWS (including certifying) as well as awareness of GenAI developments
• Cross-team collaboration with cloud engineers and other data & AI engineers
• Build and maintain generic, repeatable data products for use in future consulting engagements

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred
• Certifications related to cloud hyperscalers or data provider strongly preferred (or attained in first 90 days)

Experience

Required

• 3+ years in one of the domains (data engineering or AI/ML)
• At least one year experience of experience in the other domain
• Experiencing writing SQL (any dialect), familiar with stored procedures, CTEs, etc.
• Regularly using at least 1 cloud platform: AWS, Azure, GCP, etc
• Understanding of data modeling and governance concepts

Nice to Have

• Programmatic use of knowledge bases or RAG for GenAI
• ETL tooling: Airflow, DBT, Glue, Fivetran, ....
• Familiarity with ML concepts (random forests, neural nets, etc.) and common frameworks: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, ....
• Programmatic use of agents via Strands, Lanchain, or similar
• ML Ops: data / model training pipelines, parameter tuning, and tuning for inference
• Familiar with big data and data lake concepts and at least one big data platform / tool
• Data streaming: Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, ...
• IaC: Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, ...
• Data warehouses: Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, ....
• NoSQL databases and concepts: DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis, ...

Great benefits and perks including flexible hours, excellent medical, Dental/Vision, LTD/STD/AD&D/Life coverage, 401k, on-going training, River North location or home office, transit reimbursement, on-going technical training, and doughnuts, lots of doughnuts!