Azure Cognitive Search Developer

Primary Responsibilities and Objectives:

• Act as the go-to expert for Azure AI Search (Azure Cognitive Search), safeguarding best practices in implementation, ingestion, and optimization.
• Partner with the Azure AI Search team to understand the platform’s capabilities, roadmaps, and governance.
• Lead the ingestion of documents into Azure AI Search, ensuring proper metadata tagging, data quality, and relevance.
• Set up Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to deliver accurate responses against a document corpus of approximately 500 documents.
• Optimise and tune Azure AI Search indexes for best performance, relevance, and accuracy.
• Identify and implement key features of Azure AI services needed for successful deployment.
• Work with clients and technical teams to define use cases, document workflows, and solution architecture.
• Contribute to establishing robust MLOps and CI/CD pipelines on Azure to streamline deployment and maintenance.
• Maintain compliance with relevant data governance standards, including GDPR, especially concerning PII data.
• Proactively highlight potential risks, suggest improvements, and demonstrate thought leadership in AI solutions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including Java developers, Azure AI Search specialists, and co-pilot engineers.

Experience:

• Extensive experience with Azure AI and Machine Learning services, especially Azure Cognitive Search.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, deployment, and management on Azure.
• Strong programming skills in Python, API integration, and Java scripting (nice to have).
• Proven experience in data engineering tasks, model deployment, and MLOps best practices.
• Experience designing, setting up, and managing RAG architectures and search solutions.
• Ability to operate at a strategic level, identifying critical features and risks in Azure AI implementations.
• Familiarity with GDPR and data governance best practices, especially concerning sensitive information.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Key Azure AI and Machine Learning Services:

• Azure Data Factory / Databricks (potentially for data engineering tasks).
• Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake (for document storage and ingestion).
• Azure Logic Apps and Functions (for automation workflows).
• MLOps tools within Azure for deployment, monitoring, and management.

Multi-year contract (inside) - Strong market rates - Hybrid working x3 days in GLASGOW office - Great team!

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