ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST

<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; font-size: 14px;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><p style="border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">ROLE OBJECTIVE&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;">Specialist, Artificial Intelligence &amp; Machine Learning designs, develops, and operationalizes AI/ML and Generative AI solutions as part of Otech’s AI practice. This role combines deep technical expertise in AI modelling, data science, and automation with practical experience in project delivery, pre-sales, and framework development.</p><p style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;">The incumbent also serves as a key contributor to driving applied research, reusable accelerator creation, and continuous improvement of Otech’s AI delivery methodologies.</p><p style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;">The Specialist plays a pivotal role in ensuring that Otech’s AI offerings are client-ready, scalable, ethically sound, and commercially impactful.</p><p style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"></p><p style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p></div><p style="margin: 3pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">AI/ML Solution Architecture &amp; Development</strong></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;">Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end AI/ML solutions across enterprise domains (e.g., predictive analytics, NLP, computer vision, anomaly detection, recommendation engines).</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;">Apply structured ML lifecycle management — data acquisition, feature engineering, model selection, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;">Collaborate with Data Engineers to design efficient data pipelines, warehouses, and model input/output workflows.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;">Implement and optimize MLOps processes (CI/CD pipelines, model drift monitoring, retraining automation).</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in;">Evaluate and fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) and GenAI frameworks for enterprise-grade applications such as chatbots, text summarization, and content generation.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Applied Research &amp; CoE Contribution</strong></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;">Drive applied research initiatives under Otech’s AI CoE — exploring new ML algorithms, open-source models, and GenAI platforms.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;">Prototype reusable AI frameworks, APIs, and pre-trained components to accelerate solution development.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;">Document and publish internal whitepapers, technical briefs, and “lessons learned” playbooks to capture knowledge from live projects.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;">Participate in external research collaborations with academic institutions, hyperscalers, and AI communities to benchmark emerging technologies.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l5 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in;">Contribute to Otech’s AI capability maturity index by evolving the organization’s IP base (accelerators, libraries, tools).</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Quality, Governance &amp; Compliance</strong></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;">Ensure that all AI projects adhere to ethical AI, data privacy, and OIA governance requirements.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;">Develop model evaluation criteria and establish thresholds for accuracy, fairness, and interpretability.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;">Conduct peer reviews and compliance checks for internal or partner-delivered solutions.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in;">Maintain detailed documentation of models, datasets, and configuration parameters to ensure reproducibility and audit readiness.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Client Delivery &amp; Solution Enablement</strong></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in;">Collaborate with Solution Architects and Delivery Managers to ensure AI/ML components are well-integrated into end-to-end client systems.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in;">Provide expert inputs for RFP responses, technical proposals, and pre-sales presentations.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in;">Lead PoC and pilot initiatives to demonstrate feasibility and ROI of AI applications.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in;">Provide delivery oversight to ensure that projects meet SLA metrics such as accuracy, latency, and availability.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Cross-Functional Collaboration</strong></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in;">Work with Cloud and Cybersecurity teams to ensure model environments are secure, scalable, and optimized for performance.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in;">Collaborate with Product Managers to identify opportunities for productization of AI solutions into managed offerings.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;tab-stops:list .5in;">Partner with business stakeholders to translate business problems into quantifiable AI use cases.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Mentorship &amp; Capability Building</strong></p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .5in;">Coach Junior Specialists and interns on ML tools, libraries, and coding standards.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .5in;">Support creation of structured learning paths and in-house training programs for AI practitioners.</p><p style="margin: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 130%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:130%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list .5in;">Conduct internal workshops and “showcase” sessions to disseminate AI innovation stories and project results.</p>