24 Jan
Loblaw Companies Ltd - Head Office
Toronto
Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.
All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.
At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started.
Why is this role important?
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on our team,
you will use an abundance of data from the Loblaw enterprise in order to build machine learning solutions. Your team will collaborate with business stakeholders and engineers within Loblaw Digital to deliver models to production that help in driving our Ecommerce business including Search, Recommendations, Media and Supply Chain optimization. You will design experiments to measure your success with KPIs that include adoption, conversion & retention. You will use data every single day to uncover meaningful insights that inform your experimentation strategy and ultimately, your product roadmap.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, robust, and efficient cloud infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including Vertex AI, BigTable, BigQuery, and Cloud Composer.
- Develop automation and orchestration of ML pipelines, integrating data ingestion, feature engineering, training, and deployment processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and build solutions that improve platform usability, scalability, and the overall development experience.
- Optimize data processing pipelines and cloud resources to ensure low-latency, cost-effective operation.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and failover strategies to ensure platform reliability.
- Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in cloud engineering, data engineering, and machine learning
Does this sound like you?
- Customer-centric mindset: Passionate about delivering an exceptional experience for data scientists through a self-service platform, reducing friction in their workflows.
- Collaboration: Strong communication skills to work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and engineers, to ensure platform features meet user needs and expectations.
- Problem-solving: Ability to identify and solve complex technical issues related to ML pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and scalability,
ensuring an efficient and robust platform.
- Automation-first approach: Commitment to streamlining and automating processes for scalability and reliability, enabling data scientists to focus on experimentation and model development.
- Adaptability: Ability to quickly adjust to new technologies and evolving platform needs to keep the infrastructure cutting-edge and efficient.
- Ownership and initiative: Comfortable taking ownership of key platform components, driving innovation and improvements that benefit the platform’s scalability and usability.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure and/or data engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services such as Vertex AI, BigTable, BigQuery,
Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, etc.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, and SQL.
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow (Composer).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools for continuous integration and deployment.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
How You’ll Succeed:
At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.
We’re able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce.
If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we’ll get along just fine.
Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.
Apply today.
Employment Type:
Full time
Type of Role:
Temporary with Benefits (Fixed Term)
Loblaw Digital recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.
In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct - it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.
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