Consulting Machine Learning Engineer

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

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Get To Know The Opportunity

The Enterprise Data Science team is a multi-disciplinary team of data experts that work together to convert vast amounts of business and consumer data into actionable insights, improved business decisions, and positive customer interactions. The team’s analytics are used to build, retain and strengthen our relationship with individual clients, plan sponsors and distribution partners, and to improve our business processes across the enterprise. The role is responsible to identify opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness while delivering output to our business partners, from the point of data ingestion, transformation, computation, through business consumption.

The Contributions You'll Make

• Building custom Python packages/libraries
• Develop in-house ML models including testing and validation
• Design, set-up, manage and/or use git repos
• Orchestrate and synchronize AI artifact versioning (data, model, software and infra)
• Manage and optimize GPU and CPU clusters
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness
• Deliver output to our business partners, from the point of data ingestion, transformation, computation, through business consumption.

Minimum Knowledge and Experience:

· 5+ years of experience with software development and testing in Python including :

• Object-oriented software engineering
• 5+ years MLOps experience :
• 2+ years of experience with cloud-native infrastructure for machine learning and NLP (including natural language generation) including :
• Data operations with data of varying levels of sensitivity (PII/HIPPA/public)
• 4 years of combined experience with AI, NLP and machine learning
• Excellent communication skills and experience working on teams
  
  Preferred qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience working with data engineering and data governance teams
• 2+ years managing teams doing data work (data science, data engineering, ml engineering, ml ops, etc.)
• Experience working with security, risk and compliance teams to simultaneously optimize efficiency and risk mitigation
• Experience with open and closed-sourced pretrained language model management and versioning

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.