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You will take use cases from business problem to production - generative AI and agent solutions on Microsoft Foundry, data and AI applications on Databricks Apps, and machine-learning predictions served from the group's Databricks lakehouse - and keep them accurate, secure, and cost-effective once they are live. Through design, evaluation, and mentoring, you will set the quality bar for AI delivery in the team. This role sits within Amana's Data Science, Governance & AI Centre of Excellence, with a clear path into AI engineering leadership.\nWhy This Role Matters\nAmana operates across capital-intensive sectors where cost, schedule, safety, and cash flow decide project outcomes. AI creates value only when it reaches the people who run projects, sites, and finance - as tools they use every day, built on governed data. Your applications and models will put predictions and AI assistance into the hands of project, commercial, and operations teams across the group.\nYou will turn governed data into working, trusted AI products - and your designs and evaluations will shape how the rest of the team builds AI.\nCore Responsibilities\nAI Application Design & Delivery\nDesign, build, and deploy generative AI and agent solutions on Microsoft Foundry - model selection, prompt and tool design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over governed Amana content, and Foundry Agent Service.\n\nBuild and run data and AI applications on Databricks Apps - interactive tools, RAG chat assistants, data-entry forms, and operational interfaces - on lakehouse data governed by Unity Catalog.\n\nDeliver construction use cases such as contract review, document intelligence, and project risk prediction, integrated with Microsoft 365 and Power Platform so they reach users in the tools they already use.\n\nOwn each solution end to end: requirements, design, build, user acceptance, and handover to support.\n\nMachine Learning & Predictive Analytics\nDevelop, train, validate, and deploy machine-learning models - forecasting, classification, and anomaly detection - on Databricks using MLflow, Unity Catalog feature tables, and Model Serving.\n\nRun batch and real-time predictions in production and surface them where decisions are made: Power BI, Databricks Apps, and business workflows.\n\nApply predictive analytics across project controls, cost and commercial, procurement, HSE, plant, and workforce data, and explain the method, confidence, and limitations of each model to business users.\n\nEvaluation, Responsible AI & Security\nEvaluate every AI solution before release for accuracy, groundedness, bias, and robustness, using Foundry evaluations and MLflow, and record the results.\n\nMonitor deployed models and agents for drift, failure, and answer quality, and retrain or roll back when agreed thresholds are breached.\n\nBuild security and data protection in from design: Microsoft Entra ID and managed identities, least-privilege access, secrets management, content safety filters, and PDPL controls for personal and HR data.\n\nPartner with the Data Governance Office to take each new AI use case through Amana's data risk assessment, apply data-residency requirements to every model deployment, and record each solution in the AI use-case register.\n\nMLOps, Reliability & Cost\nApply CI/CD, automated testing, and version control to code, prompts, and models using Git and Azure DevOps.\n\nOwn the operational health and running cost of your solutions: tracing, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and inference and compute spend within agreed budgets.\n\nDocument every solution - architecture, data sources, prompts, evaluation results, and runbooks - so it can be supported and handed over without loss of knowledge.\n\nCollaboration & Mentoring\nWork with business owners in finance, projects, procurement, HSE, and HR to identify high-value use cases and agree success measures before build.\n\nPartner with the Data Engineering Lead (Data Architect) and Senior Data Engineer on AI-ready data - feature tables and document and vector pipelines - and with the Data Analyst on Power BI integration.\n\nMentor Data Scientists and engineers in AI engineering practice, and help colleagues adopt approved AI tools safely through the Amana Digital Academy.\n\nExplain design choices, trade-offs, risks, and model limitations clearly to technical and business audiences.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning, AI, or software engineering, including at least 2 years building and deploying ML or generative AI solutions in production.\n\nBuilt and shipped generative AI or agent applications on Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or an equivalent platform, including RAG, tool calling, and systematic evaluation.\n\nDeveloped and deployed machine-learning models end to end - feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring - ideally on Databricks with MLflow.\n\nStrong Python and SQL, with experience building web applications or APIs (for example Streamlit, Dash, FastAPI, or React) and Git-based CI/CD delivery (Azure DevOps or equivalent).\n\nSecurity and responsible AI applied in practice: Microsoft Entra ID and managed identities, secrets management, content safety, and testing for groundedness and bias.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and business audiences.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience with Databricks Apps, Mosaic AI Vector Search, Model Serving, and Unity Catalog.\n\nAgent orchestration and tool integration, including multi-agent workflows and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.\n\nDocument intelligence on construction documents - contracts, drawings, and specifications - combining OCR with LLM-based extraction.\n\nCopilot Studio, Power Apps, and Power Automate for extending AI solutions into Microsoft 365.\n\nTime-series forecasting for project cost, schedule, or resource planning.\n\nMulti-entity, multi-country group exposure with mixed data residency considerations.\n\nIndustry experience in construction, engineering services, manufacturing, energy, or logistics.\n\nCertifications\nRequired (held, or achieved after joining within the period shown):\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103) or Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate - 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