Lakehouse Machine Learning Engineer

Overview

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Position Summary

ISC2 is building a modern lakehouse and using it to run machine learning across the membership business. This role covers the whole path, from the pipelines that produce the data through to results a stakeholder actually uses. The Lakehouse Machine Learning (ML) Engineer writes production Python and Spark against a governed lakehouse, spends real time exploring data before deciding what’s worth modeling, and deploys and monitors models once they’re live. As the platform matures there is room to take on applied LLM work. The lakehouse runs on Azure Databricks; deep experience on a comparable stack transfers.

**This position is not available to residents of California**.
Responsibilities

- Build and maintain Python/Spark pipelines through bronze, silver, and gold layers, plus the semantic datasets and ML models that consume them.

- Dig into the data before modeling it. Work out what it can support, build and test the features that come out of that exploration, then coordinate with stakeholders about which questions are worth answering and which aren’t.

- Work across a range of model types: survival and time-to-event, forecasting, classification and propensity, sequence models, recommenders, causal evaluation.

- Put models into production and keep them there - Experiment tracking, model registry, scheduled inference, and monitoring for drift and decay once they’re live.

- Get results to the people who need them. That means landing output in governed semantic tables feeding dashboards and CDP systems, and being able to walk a business team through what the numbers mean.

- Take on applied LLM work as the platform matures, including structured extraction from free text, and retrieval over governed data.

- Build inside the platform’s security and governance requirements rather than around them. Access controls, data protection, auditability, and human review where model output drives a decision that affects a member.

- Turn what works into reusable patterns, including project templates, shared feature and evaluation code, and implementation standards, so the next model doesn’t start from a blank notebook.

- Prove things out before they get built for real - Small proofs of concept that establish whether the data supports the theory, whether the approach holds up, and whether the result can actually be operated once it’s live.

- Perform miscellaneous duties, as required.

Behavioral Competencies

- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and documentation rigor.

- Collaborative, intellectually curious, and proactive in identifying analytical opportunities.

Qualifications

- Strong Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) skills, with the ability to