George Bernard Consulting

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (SAS Viya) (8 months contract)

Sri Lanka full-time Senior Salary not listed
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About the role

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade machine learning models for financial and taxation use cases

Build and maintain scalable ML pipelines using SAS Viya and Python-based ML frameworks

Lead feature engineering and data preprocessing for structured financial and taxation datasets

Train, tune, and validate ML models with a strong focus on accuracy, stability, and explainability

Implement model monitoring, performance tracking, and drift detection mechanisms

Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and domain experts to integrate ML models into enterprise systems

Ensure ML solutions meet regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements

Conduct code reviews and enforce ML engineering and software development best practices

Mentor junior ML engineers and contribute to technical decision-making

Support continuous improvement of ML models and platforms

Requirements

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field

5+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning or applied data science

Experience working with financial, taxation, risk, or compliance-related data

Strong hands-on experience with SAS Viya

Strong proficiency in Python with ML libraries such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch

Solid understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, feature engineering, and model evaluation

Experience with SQL and relational databases in financial environments

Hands-on experience with ML model deployment, monitoring, and MLOps workflows

Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Familiarity with Spark or distributed data processing is a plus

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  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Senior Machine Learning Engineer (SAS Viya) (8 months contract) role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at George Bernard Consulting?
  3. Which of MySQL, Python and SQL have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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I am interested in the Senior Machine Learning Engineer (SAS Viya) (8 months contract) role because I can bring practical experience in MySQL, Python and SQL, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes George Bernard Consulting needs from this hire.

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