Software Engineer, ML Platform

Zions Bancorporation; Midvale (UT); Hybrid; USD 140.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Life and Disability Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid PTO and Holidays

Zusammenfassung

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming how a financial institution leverages ML at scale. We seek a Software Engineer, ML Platform to help productionize ML applications, design deployment pipelines, and ensure reliability of ML services in an Agile environment.

You will build foundational ML platform components, champion observability, model lifecycle and CI/CD practices, and collaborate across data, engineering, and product teams.

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services.
• Proficiency in Python, including testing, packaging, and production-quality code.
• Experience with Docker and container-based deployment; working knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP), including IAM, networking, and storage basics.
• Experience instrumenting production services with metrics, structured logging, and alerting, using tools such as Splunk or Grafana.
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as retries, idempotency, and failure handling.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain deployment pipelines, environments, and containerized services for production systems.
• Develop components of real-time decisioning services, including event processing, integrations, and decision logging.
• Implement observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards for production services.
• Design and maintain the model lifecycle: training pipelines, experiment tracking, model registry, versioning, and promotion from staging to production.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional Agile team to create clean interfaces between data, decision logic, and services.
• Leverage CI/CD best practices to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code.
• Ensure all code is well-managed to reduce vulnerabilities and that ML governance aligns with Responsible and Explainable AI.

Kenntnisse

Python

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Agile

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Jobbeschreibung

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. With a commitment to technology and innovation, we have been providing our community, clients and colleagues the best experience possible for over 150 years. Help us transform our workforce of the future, today.

We are seeking a Software Engineer, ML Platform to join Zions Bancorporation. In this role you will be part of an Agile team dedicated to productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. You will be involved in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning applications using both existing and emerging technology platforms. You'll focus on building and maintaining foundational components of the team’s ML platform and ensuring availability and performance of our ML services. You'll have the opportunity to continuously learn and apply the latest innovations and best practices in machine learning engineering and model development.

The Software Engineer, ML Platform will:

The Software Engineer, ML Platform draws from many disciplines, such as Operations, Modeling, and Data Engineering. In this role, you'll be expected to perform many backend and ML engineering activities, including one or more of the following:

• Build and maintain deployment pipelines, environments, and containerized services for the team’s production systems.
• Develop components of real-time decisioning services, including event processing, integrations, and decision logging.
• Implement observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards for production services.
• Design and maintain the model lifecycle: training pipelines, experiment tracking, model registry, versioning, and promotion from staging to production.
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create clean interfaces between data, decision logic, and services.
• Leverage CI/CD best practices to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code.
• Ensure all code is well‑managed to reduce vulnerabilities, models are well‑governed from a risk perspective, and the ML follows best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services.
• Proficiency in Python, including testing, packaging, and production-quality code.
• Experience with Docker and container‑based deployment; working knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP), including IAM, networking, and storage basics.
• Experience instrumenting production services with metrics, structured logging, and alerting, using tools such as Splunk or Grafana.
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as retries, idempotency, and failure handling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to MLOps tools such as MLflow, feature stores, or model serving frameworks.
• Experience with streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, or Delta Lake.
• Familiarity with rules engines or policy frameworks.

Visa Sponsorship

This position is currently not eligible for employment visa sponsorship (e.g., H-1B visa). This includes, for example, situations where a candidate may have temporary work authorization while enrolled in school or upon graduation (e.g., CPT, OPT) but would need H-1B visa sponsorship within a few years of employment in order to maintain employment eligibility.

Location

This position has a hybrid work from home schedule with a minimum of three days per week in the office at the new Zions Technology Center in Midvale, UT.

Zions Technology Center - 7860 South Bingham Junction Blvd, Midvale, UT 84047.

The Zions Technology Center is a 400,000‑square‑foot technology campus in Midvale, Utah. Located on the former Sharon Steel Mill superfund site, the sustainably built campus is the company’s primary technology and operations center. This modern and environmentally friendly technology center enables Zions to compete for the best technology talent in the state while providing team members with an exceptional work environment with features such as:

Electric vehicle charging stations and close proximity to Historic Gardner Village UTA TRAX station.

At least 75% of the building is powered by on‑site renewable solar energy.

Access to outdoor recreation, parks, trails, shareable bikes and locker rooms.

Large modern cafe with a healthy and diverse menu.

Healthy indoor environment with ample natural light and fresh air.

LEED-certified sustainable building that features include the use of low VOC‑emitting construction materials.

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
• Life and Disability Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA) and dependent care accounts
• Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
• Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
• Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
• Employee Ambassador preferred banking products

This position will be open until filled.

All candidates, including those with criminal histories will be considered for employment. However, a background check adjudicated consistently with the FDIC Section 19 regulation will be completed on any candidate who accepts a conditional job offer from the Company. Because the Company is a financial institution, the FDIC guidelines apply to all positions within the company and as such any and all job duties have a direct relationship to a candidate’s criminal history and that criminal history would need to align with the FDIC Section 19 regulations.

Zions Bancorporation, National Association prohibits illegal discrimination and reaffirms its policy of providing Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), by extending equal employment and advancement opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, gender, disability, national origin, ethnic background, citizenship, protected veteran status, military service, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

It is the Company’s policy not to discriminate because of a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran. This includes spouses and other family members. Also, Zions will safeguard the fair and equitable treatment of protected veteran spouses and family members with regard to all employment actions and prohibit harassment of applicants and employees because of their relationship or association with a protected veteran.

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