Senior Azure AI (OpenAI) Developer

Job title: Senior Azure AI (OpenAI) Developer

Job description: Senior Azure AI (OpenAI) Developer – ( 230004LF )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 28,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents. Our Functional Services Teams (FSTs) include Corporate Development, Finance, HR, HSSE, IT, Legal, Marketing/Communications, Practice Services and Real Estate and Procurement. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

At Stantec Consulting, you’ll be part of a diverse team of dedicated problem-solving professionals with a common goal: improving operational efficiencies and gaining strategic insight using cutting edge technologies, including latest AI/ML and GPT technologies. There is a huge career growth opportunity for you at Stantec.

Your Opportunity

As a Senior AI Developer, you will be at the helm of integrating Azure Open AI technologies into Stantec’s Marketing technology stack. Your expertise will be pivotal in developing automated proposal generation utilizing generative AI that will leverage company data to create customized and relevant content. Other use cases will have you apply data science to content search, analytics, and image identification.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead development initiatives in generative AI, ensuring alignment with Stantec’s marketing and proposal generation ecosystem.

Leverage Azure OpenAI to integrate company-specific data to optimize for relevancy and accuracy while ensuring data privacy standards are compliant.

Orchestrating end-to-end technical solutions in Microsoft Azure AI, guaranteeing enterprise scalability while employing Azure Open AI and other LLMs.

Craft and implement web-based user interfaces for interactive experiences.

Design, develop, and manage scalable AI models across supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning paradigms.

Analyze existing technical infrastructure, identifying technical requisites, and ensuring seamless integration of REST APIs, including Azure OpenAI/ChatGPT with backend systems.

Plan, configure, and manage resources in Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms

Engineer evaluation frameworks to gauge Large Language Model (LLM) efficacy, driving continuous enhancements in model quality.

Collaborate with Stantec’s IT team to meet and exceed the strictest compliance requirements for cloud data security.

Partner with marketing and proposal teams to implement generative AI models, monitor outcomes, and continuously enhance proposal quality and efficiency.

Design, configure, develop, and execute strategies for deployment and migration of enterprise cloud architectures based on Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Proficiency in Python/.NET and RESTful APIs is essential.

Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning Studio, and Azure Cognitive Search or equivalent.

Familiarity with Prompt Engineering, LLM fine-tuning, and chaining technologies like LangChain and Semantic Kernel.

Expertise in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and foundational model toolsets.

Knowledge of DevOps (CI/CD) is a plus

Strong problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines

Aptitude for translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences and vice versa.

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

Strong sense of accountability

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field is required.

At least 3 years of practical experience in data science, machine learning, or a related field, with a proven track record of implementing AI solutions in a business environment.

Previous experience in a DevOps role is a plus, but not mandatory.

Demonstrated experience with Azure OpenAI, other Large Language Models (LLMs), and open-source foundation models is highly desirable.

Certifications:

• Any certifications related to Azure, AI, or data science, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate or Azure AI Engineer Associate, are considered a plus, though not required.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-Alberta-Edmonton

Other Locations : Canada

Work Locations :

Edmonton AB

Organization : BC-1196 Marketing & Communications-CA Corporate

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Nov 9, 2023, 8:50:51 AM

Req ID: 230004LF

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans

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