Senior AI Engineer at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position:

• Full stack development: To design, build and maintain the most dynamic, scalable, maintainable, and high performing AI solutions using latest technologies and frameworks.

Key Performance Objectives

System development

• Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
• Create prototypes, mockups, and staging apps for review and feedback
• Develop backend and frontend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
• Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
• Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
• Integrate existing as well as new applications onto Online, Mobile, Broad band & Broadcast platforms.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code with tests to develop functional backend and frontend applications in line with industry best practices and principles.
• Integrate to application monitoring tool to be able troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Continuously review and improve application performance.
• Support and improve legacy applications.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features

Technology research

• Keep up to date with the latest offerings from vendors across the range of AI solution opportunities
• Act as an internal SME on AI solutions available in the market
• Consistently monitor the market to look for opportunities to improve the technology stack being used within the group
• Product evaluation and reporting
• Develop and implement a repeatable process for product evaluation, benchmarking and reporting
• Provide product evaluation reports as and when required
• Experimentation and solution development
• Run experiments to test hypotheses with the team members including business stakeholders, researchers and engineers
• Collaborate cross-functionally with machine learning experts across the group
• Provide hands-on implementation expertise when required, for key strategic projects

Community involvement

• Establish communities of practice for key AI themes and capabilities
• Coordinate technical events according to the published group AI calendar
• Contribute to open-source projects and public good initiatives when appropriate
• Contribute to thought leadership in AI by regularly speaking or publishing at local and international conferences

Qualifications Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in IT or Computer Science or related discipline with a minimum of 7 years of related experience; Master's degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 year of related experience; or PhD with a minimum of 3 year of related experience in similar disciplines

Experience

• Experience in cloud native development which includes DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices and containers. Cloud certification would be an advantage.
• You have exceptional knowledge of Webservice, JSON, WCF, SOAP and REST Web Services.
• Experience in wide application of principles, theories, concepts, and techniques in modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Python, Java, Hadoop map-reduce, R, Ruby, SAS, Artificial Intelligence Techniques and concepts.
• good experience working on the spring framework
• Good MVC knowledge
• Tomcat, Apache
• CI/CD knowledge. Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, JBehave, Puppet
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
• RDBMS experience (MySQL, MSSQL)
• NoSQL knowledge would be a definite advantage (MongoDB, Neo4J)
• You also have previous exposure to full life cycle systems development
• You also understand XML data driven applications and object orientated programming
• good understanding of Web Servers, IIS and Web Site setup and configuration
• Knowledge of Reactive Programming (ReactiveX or Rx) would be a great advantage.
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store
• You also understand object-oriented programming
• You have experience in development practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment
• Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
• Knowledge of Java backend development would be an advantage
• Eager to learn new technologies and excited by change
• Knowledge in one or more related fields of the following areas would be an advantage: artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, risk models, decision theory, and probabilistic methods.