Senior AI/ML Data Engineer & MLOps Architect

corespecialtyinsurance; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

corespecialtyinsurance seeks a Lead AI Engineer to shape AI/ML enablement across the organization. You will start hands-on, contributing to our data platform and pipelines while progressively taking a leadership role in governance, deployment, and best practices.

You will partner with Data Governance, Data Engineering, and Product stakeholders to define AI/ML frameworks and MLOps strategy, ensuring scalable, responsible AI adoption and high‑quality engineering outcomes across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong data engineering fundamentals with pipelines and platform design.
• Experience deploying AI/ML solutions with proper governance and security.
• Proficiency in Python and modern data tooling (Spark, Kafka).
• Hands-on in ML/AI workflows and MLOps best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize data pipelines and platform components.
• Own complex engineering initiatives from design to rollout with minimal oversight.
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
• Define AI/ML frameworks and MLOps strategies with governance alignment.
• Write clean, tested code and infrastructure-as-code.

Skills

Python

Data Engineering

LLM APIs

MLOps

Cloud Platforms

Data Pipelines

Venture Tools

Observability

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

Airflow

Kafka

dbt

Spark

Pinecone / Weaviate

Job description

corespecialtyinsurance seeks a Lead AI Engineer to shape AI/ML enablement across the organization. You will start hands-on, contributing to our data platform and pipelines while progressively taking a leadership role in governance, deployment, and best practices.

You will partner with Data Governance, Data Engineering, and Product stakeholders to define AI/ML frameworks and MLOps strategy, ensuring scalable, responsible AI adoption and high‑quality engineering outcomes across teams.