Job Description
We are seeking a Data Scientist with hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining production machine learning solutions in a cloud environment. This role will develop scalable ML models, improve the data pipelines that support them, and collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions.
This is a contract role supporting a remote, cross-functional team. The successful candidate must have experience taking machine learning models beyond notebook-based development and supporting them in live production environments.
Enterprise experience strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop, deploy, and maintain machine learning models in production environments.
* Perform exploratory data analysis to identify patterns, opportunities, and modeling approaches.
* Conduct feature engineering and prepare data for machine learning workflows.
* Build and improve data pipelines supporting model development, deployment, and maintenance.
* Monitor production models and help address performance or operational issues.




* Collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable machine learning solutions.
* Use version-control and collaborative development practices to manage production code.
* Work independently while communicating progress, risks, and technical findings clearly.
* Contribute to LLM- or AI-agent-based capabilities where applicable.
Qualifications
Must-Have Skills
* At least 2 years of experience building and maintaining production machine learning models.
* Strong Python programming skills.
* Advanced SQL skills.
* Experience deploying machine learning models into production.
* Experience monitoring or maintaining models after production deployment.
* Experience with AWS SageMaker or another enterprise machine learning platform, such as Vertex AI or Azure Machine Learning.
* Experience supporting production machine learning pipelines.
* Experience with Git or an

📌 #127006 - Data Scientist - Production Machine Learning (Bogotá)
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📍 Bogotá