Expert, AI Engineering Leader

At Schneider Electric, we are committed to solving real‑world problems to create a sustainable, digitized, new electric future. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to transform industries and help unlock efficiency and sustainability.

Within our Global AI Hub we combine our long‑standing manufacturing and domain expertise with cutting‑edge innovation in AI, machine learning, and deep learning to empower smarter decision‑making, agility, and decarbonization.

Your Role

In close collaboration with various stakeholders, you are responsible to understand business requirements, lead, manage, design & develop complex cloud‑based & edge AI solutions and manage the deployment and operation into the AI Hub Platform.

As a key leader within the AI Solutions Team, you will oversee the AI Engineering sub‑domain and provide technical leadership across all three sub‑domains: Cloud, AI and Data.

This position sits at the heart of our team’s ambition to put AI as a Service (AIaaS) to all Schneider Electric Business Units and clients.

Your role is crucial in driving this transformation, promoting a modern AI approach, and reinforcing a robust engineering culture.

Your Responsibilities

Technical and Strategic Responsibilities

• Lead the design and develop scalable, optimise, secure, and compliant cloud‑based & edge AI solutions
• Manage deployment and operation for AI Solutions
• Put in place common technical patterns and strategies for UCs
• Stay up‑to‑date on the latest AI technologies

Collaboration and Influence

• Collaborate & work closely with AI Technology/Platform team, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, and LOBs in order to
  • Set clear technical context and goals
  • Track and improve UCs monitoring
  • Identify/Evaluate and plan for risks
  • Influence on decisions
  • Challenge stakeholders
  • Evaluate similarities between UCs to rationalise & reuse patterns
• Follow
  • UCs during their lifecycle (Incoming, in progress and delivered)
  • AI Engineering team members tasks and provide leadership
• Mentor and share knowledge with Junior Engineers & stakeholders

Your Profile

• Master or PhD or equivalent diploma in Analytics / Artificial Intelligence / Data world or related subjects.
• + 6 years of experience in advanced including 3 years of experience as Technical Leader or equivalent
• Cloud Architecture / Engineering
  • Mastering Azure Services (AI, ML, Compute, DBs, Containers, Storage, Networking, Security, …)
• Software Architecture / Engineering
  • Coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting (Python/Java/Scala/C++)
• AI/MLOps Engineering
  • ML and AI concepts
  • AI Deployment, DevOps & Security
• Data Engineering
  • Distributed systems (Spark, Hadoop, …)
  • Data Ingestion (batch & streaming)
  • ETL/ELT concept
  • DBs (SQL & NoSQL)
  • Data structures (structured, semi structured, and unstructured) like Time series (meter values over time), texts, sounds, images, videos, …
• DevSecOps Engineering
  • Infra As Code: Terraform / ARM Templates
  • Versioning: GitHub Ecosystem
  • Data/Cloud and application security concepts
  • Policy development & deployment
  • Secured Development Lifecycle (SDL)
• Certification in some of this previous domains
• Capacity to mentor Juniors & Stakeholders on the above technical skills
• Leadership competencies
  • Understanding business context and implications
  • Balancing long‑term objectives with wide scope of day‑to‑day activities
  • Contributing to innovative ideas, taking risks, challenging status quo
  • Listening to others and conveying messages in an accurate and effective manner
  • Building an agile network and promoting synergies within the company and with external partners
  • Consistently involving all stakeholders in plans and decisions that affect them
• Fluent English.

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