Technical Lead, Data, AI & Analytics (mfd)

Clariant is a focused sustainable and innovative specialty chemical company. We connect our customers to value-adding and sustainable solutions for products used in countless everyday applications. Our solutions contribute to our customers sustainability targets while prioritizing our own. We are committed to creating value through innovation and sustainability for our customers stakeholders and the environment.

As Technical Lead Data AI & Analytics you are the technical backbone of the business units digital build-up. You own theBUs growing portfolio of ML/AI applications and the architecture of the BUs data lake drive the development backlog as technical product owner alongside business counterparts and set the engineering standards that separate production-grade solutions from prototypes. The role sits at the intersection of solution design and data architecture in an industrial
environment where ERP CRM MES and plant data are daily reality.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical product owner for the development backlog: refine user stories with business solution and domain owners translate business requirements into technically sound appropriately scoped work and drive weekly prioritization and sprint planning
• Own the solution architecture for ML/AI applications and digital products built by the team establishing the design principles technology choices and reusable patterns that keep solutions scalable maintainable and production-ready
• Apply strong ML/AI judgment to scope and validate solution approaches knowing when a problem needs a model which class of methods fits and what production-ready realistically requires
• Design the concept and drive the implementation of the business units cloud data lake e.g. data modelsingestion patterns storage and access layers
• Ensure solutions integrate cleanly with the industrial systems landscape (ERP MES historians LIMS CRM) and the cloud platform
• Establish and uphold engineering standards across the teams development work: code and architecture reviews pull request discipline testing and CI/CD gates MLOps and model lifecycle management
• Provide indirect technical leadership to data scientists ML engineers and developers across project teams through mentoring design reviews and technical direction-setting
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies cloud-native data platforms generative AI ML tooling and selectively introduce those that create genuine value in an industrial manufacturing context

Requirements

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science Data Science Engineering Applied Mathematics or a related STEM field with 8 years spanning data science/ML and software engineering including 3 years in a technical lead orarchitect role
• Proven track record delivering production-grade AI/ML systems in an industrial or manufacturing context integrated with operational data platforms or enterprise systems
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud data platforms or data lakes (ideally AWS); advancedPython cloud-native architecture containerization and MLOps
• Demonstrated experience driving agile delivery from the technical side e.g. backlog ownership story refinement sprint discipline in close collaboration with non-technical business counterparts
• Working fluency in the manufacturing IT/OT and business landscape (ERP CRM MES historians LIMS) and thepractical realities of industrial data; process-industry experience and exposure to hybrid modeling approaches are astrong plus

Our Offer

• The opportunity to make a significant impact through data-driven transformation
• A collaborative working environment with cross-functional teams
• Professional development opportunities in a global specialty chemicals company
• Competitive compensation and benefits package

Your Contact

Rodrigo Wintersteller
Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA
Tel. 49 (0)69/305-80582

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Clariant is a Swiss-based global specialty chemicals company which is concentrated and developed in three business units: Care Chemicals Catalysts and Adsorbents & Additives. Our purpose as a company is reflected in our tagline Greater chemistry - between people and planet which considers the principles of customer innovation and people orientation as well as a focus on creating solutions to foster sustainability in different industries by offering high-value and high-performance chemical specialties.

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