Lead Data & AI Engineer

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We are a leading global manufacturer of innovative food packaging products and solutions. The company wasfounded in 1983 grounded in the purpose of reinventing food packaging to nourish and protect our we design manufacture and distribute a wide spectrum of packaging solutions for food distributors restaurants & caterers grocery stores national food chains and consumer entertaining.

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The Data & AI Platform Engineer at Sabert Corporation plays a strategic and hands-on role at the intersection of data engineering advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. This position is responsible for designing building and optimizing scalable data platforms and AI-driven solutions that support enterprise-wide decision-making.

This role is instrumental in advancing Saberts digital transformation by integrating data across manufacturing supply chain finance sales HR and customer service functions. The engineer delivers actionable insights predictive capabilities and intelligent automation that enhance operational efficiency improve forecasting accuracy and drive business performance across a fast-paced manufacturing-driven environment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain scalable reliable data pipelines integrating structured and unstructured data from systems such as SAP S/4HANA MES SCADA CRM and other enterprise platforms.
• Build and manage modern enterprise data environments including Microsoft Fabric Azure-based lakehouse architectures and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Ensure high-quality governed and trusted data through implementation of data quality frameworks validation processes and consistency checks.
• Establish and maintain master data management (MDM) practices and enforce enterprise data governance standards.
• Enable real-time and near real-time data ingestion and processing from manufacturing systems industrial IoT devices and operational technology (OT) environments.
• Develop validate and deploy advanced analytics and machine learning models including demand forecasting predictive maintenance supply chain optimization and financial planning models.
• Build and operationalize end-to-end machine learning pipelines supporting anomaly detection process optimization and performance improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business partners to translate complex business challenges into scalable analytical solutions and production-ready AI models.
• Perform exploratory data analysis to identify patterns trends and insights that drive continuous improvement across operations.
• Design develop and deploy AI-powered solutions such as conversational agents copilots and workflow automation tools to enhance productivity.
• Leverage modern AI frameworks including large language models (LLMs) and agent-based architectures to accelerate innovation across business functions.
• Establish reusable AI solution patterns documentation best practices and governance guardrails for responsible AI adoption.
• Monitor evaluate and continuously improve deployed analytics and AI solutions based on performance metrics and stakeholder feedback.
• Serve as a key liaison between IT and OT teams ensuring alignment of data solutions with plant operations and enterprise priorities.
• Define and enforce enterprise data security governance and compliance standards in alignment with regulatory and company requirements.
• Document data architectures pipelines models and solutions to support knowledge sharing scalability and maintainability.
  

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Strong expertise in data engineering data modeling database design and modern data architectures (lakehouse data warehousing ETL/ELT).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis pipeline development and machine learning model creation.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure Microsoft Fabric Databricks or Snowflake and integration with SAP ecosystems.
• Strong experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools including Power BI and semantic data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning techniques including regression classification clustering and time-series forecasting.
• Proven ability to deploy predictive models and analytics solutions into production environments.
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks large language models (LLMs) and modern AI application development.
• Understanding of MLOps practices including model lifecycle management deployment monitoring and version control.
• Experience working with industrial IoT SCADA and MES systems including real-time data processing.
• Knowledge of manufacturing supply chain or CPG data environments with an understanding of OT/IT integration challenges.
• Strong analytical thinking problem-solving skills and focus on delivering measurable business impact.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
  

Other
Work in accordance with all Sabert Corporation policies and procedures including those related to safety quality food/product safety environmental responsibility data security and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in data engineering data science advanced analytics or related roles.
• Proven experience building and managing cloud-based data platforms and analytics solutions within enterprise environments.
• Experience working with ERP MES CRM or similar enterprise systems preferably within a manufacturing or CPG organization.

Required Experience:

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