Sr. Data and AI Engineer

Uturndata; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Excellent medical benefits

401k plan

Ongoing training

Transit reimbursement

Doughnuts

Job summary

UTurn Data Solutions is a leading technology services firm in Chicago. We are looking for experienced professionals passionate about solving data challenges. In this role, you'll design data pipelines, collaborate on AWS solutions, and mentor junior engineers.

Qualified candidates should have extensive experience in data engineering and AI/ML, and familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS. We offer great benefits, flexible hours, and a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in one of the domains (data engineering or AI/ML).
• At least one year of experience in the other domain.
• Experience writing SQL with familiarity in stored procedures and CTEs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects and customers to design and implement data pipelines.
• Deliver enterprise-level ML and GenAI solutions via IaC and CI/CD.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers in cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Data engineering

AI/ML

SQL

AWS

Terraform

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

BigQuery

Redshift

Kafka

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 and customers to design and 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
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers, cross-team collaboration with cloud 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

• 5+ 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, ...
• Familiar with big data and data lake concepts and at least one big data platform / tool
• Understanding of data modeling and governance concepts
• IaC: Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, ...
• Data warehouses: Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, ....
• NoSQL databases and concepts: DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis, ...
• Data streaming: Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, ...

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, Langchain, or similar
• ML Ops: data / model training pipelines, parameter tuning, and tuning for inference

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!

UTurn Data Solutions is a Chicago-based Premier Tier AWS Consulting Partner focused on data strategy and AWS cloud adoption. We help commercial and public sector organizations leverage the AWS cloud to transform their data into real business value.