Provectus helps companies adopt AI to transform the ways they operate, compete, and drive value.The focus of the company is on building ML Infrastructure to drive end-to-end AI transformations, assisting businesses in adopting the right AI use cases, and scaling their AI initiatives organization-wide in such industries as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail & CPG, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, and Internet businesses.The role of a Practice Leader is the most important for the company’s Machine Learning practice, because it is not only about managing people, but also requires things to be done. A Practice Leader must have sufficient technical experience to maintain and demonstrate the best market practices while keeping abreast of the latest technologies.

Requirements:

• Practical experience with high-performance programming language.
• Strong understanding of Python patterns & best practices.
• Experience in productionizing of several models (different types).
• Strong understanding of ML project lifecycle.
• Practical experience with creating training datasets involving human annotators.
• Practical experience with variety of datasources (OLTP, OLAP, DataLake, Streaming).
• Practical experience Spark, Dask or similar (distributed data processing).
• Ability to explain every design choice one makes.
• Experience with writing DeepLearning models from scratch.
• Practical experience with model post-production & maintenance: model and data monitoring, retraining automation, etc.
• Ability to make reusable components of ML pipelines.
• Ability to explain decisions, status and roadmap to non-technical customer representatives .
• Experience in >1 of the following areas: NLP, CV, forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning.
• Practical experience with /AWS/other cloud/open source alternatives/ MLOps platforms, frameworks and libraries.
• Experience in team/department leadership.
• Relationship/team building. Leadership requires building and maintaining a solid and collaborative team of individuals working toward the same goal.
• Ability to teach and mentor. The role assumes providing employees with their career path and helping them achieve goals.
• Diplomatic skills. It means more than just "communication skills" and includes ethics, empathy, compassion, and the ability to resolve conflicts.
• Calmness. People are complicated, and it is required to be ready for any objectives or misunderstandings.

Responsibilities:

• Build effective teams.
• Participate in meetups, conferences, and build community.
• Share best practices and culture with the team.
• Mentor engineers, coach Team Leads, and encourage others to share knowledge.
• Have technical excellence and be an influencer in different teams/projects.
• Hire and onboard newcomers.
• Conduct performance reviews, 1-on-1 meetings.
• Identify and address team gaps in knowledge.
• Evaluate, improve and maintain processes.
• Сollaborate with other managers across the company.
• Communicate and follow the company's mission, vision, and values.

What we offer:

• We offer a competitive salary, attractive professional and development opportunities, interesting projects, and fun colleagues who make every online and offline event a treat.