Senior Data Engineer, AI Platform & MLOps (Databricks/Azure)

Servco Pacific; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 94,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Servco Pacific in Hawaii seeks a senior Data Engineer III, AI Platform to build and operate reusable data pipelines and AI-ready platform services for Hawaii Mobility. You will own reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Data Visualization, Analytics & Automation to deliver production-grade data products.

Reporting to the Manager, Data Engineering, you will work with Databricks and Azure to implement MLOps/LLMOps patterns and contribute to semantic/ontology layers that power

Qualifications

• 6–10 years building production data pipelines and platforms.
• Strong Python, SQL, Spark, and Databricks engineering on Azure or comparable cloud.
• Experience building reusable frameworks, automated tests, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observable production services.
• Hands-on AI-ready pipelines for features, retrieval corpora, or evaluation data, with practical MLOps or LLMOps deployment and monitoring experience.
• Record of operating reliable data products, resolving incidents, tuning cost and performance, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and own reusable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving patterns across batch and streaming workloads on Databricks.
• Develop connectors, recovery paths, schema evolution, and certified data sets for reporting, applications, and AI.
• Engineer feature, context, and retrieval pipelines - document ingestion, metadata, embeddings, and indexes - to solution designs agreed with the Data & AI Architect.
• Build versioned evaluation data, model and agent monitoring feeds, feedback capture, and identity-aware feature tables, APIs, and event streams.
• Implement the data and platform components of MLOps and LLMOps delivery.
• Maintain and develop the semantic/ontology layer that informs Servco's LLMs and extends our data understanding to LLM platforms such as OpenAI and Claude.
• Tune Servco's LLMs for accuracy and review feedback via the Genie admin console.
• Assist with the implementation and maintenance of AI agents within our enterprise platforms to automate repetitive work and remove bottlenecks in the solution development lifecycle.
• Implement reproducible environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.
• Own reliability, incident response, and recovery for the assets you ship. Improve testing and release practices from production learning.
• Work with the Manager, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineers, architecture, and operators to translate customer and operating needs into dependable data products; support agreed shared capabilities.
• Mentor newer engineers through code review and pairing, document reusable patterns, and retain critical know-how in Servco-controlled systems.
• Training and supporting forward deployed team members in implementing AI solutions in line with architecture, implementation and platform standards.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Azure

MLOps

LLMOps

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

MLflow

Unity Catalog

Vector search

Job description

Servco Pacific in Hawaii seeks a senior Data Engineer III, AI Platform to build and operate reusable data pipelines and AI-ready platform services for Hawaii Mobility. You will own reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Data Visualization, Analytics & Automation to deliver production-grade data products.

Reporting to the Manager, Data Engineering, you will work with Databricks and Azure to implement MLOps/LLMOps patterns and contribute to semantic/ontology layers that power