Machine Learning Engineering Chapter Lead

About Us

Endeavour Group runs Australia’s leading retail drinks and licenced hotel network across Australia. Our business has more than 1,600 retail stores and 340 hotels powered by a team of 28,000 people. Our brands include BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Jimmy Brings, Langtons, Shorty’s Liquor, Pinnacle Drinks and ALH hotels
Our purpose is to create a more sociable future, together. We’re all about bringing people together to create great experiences and memorable moments. We do the right thing - build our business sustainably, act responsibly and embrace technology. We work as one team to contribute to the communities we serve and collaborate with our partners to help build a better industry. We recognise how important our people are in helping us to achieve our ambition and we champion individuality and value fairness, inclusion and diversity.

The Advanced Analytics Team is an Enterprise function within Endeavour, with capabilities across data governance & privacy, data engineering & platforms, data analytics and data science. We are a passionate team of data enthusiasts with a mission to empower Endeavour to achieve its ambitions through data driven insights.

About Us

Endeavour Group runs Australia’s leading retail drinks and licenced hotel network across Australia. We are an ASX50 business with more than 1,600 retail stores and 340 hotels powered by a team of 28,000 people. Our brands include BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Jimmy Brings, Langtons, Shorty’s Liquor, Pinnacle Drinks and ALH hotels
Our purpose is to create a more sociable future, together. We’re all about bringing people together to create great experiences and memorable moments. We do the right thing - build our business sustainably, act responsibly and embrace technology. We work as one team to contribute to the communities we serve and collaborate with our partners to help build a better industry. We recognise how important our people are in helping us to achieve our ambition and we champion individuality and value fairness, inclusion and diversity.

The Advanced Analytics Team is an Enterprise function within Endeavour, with capabilities across data governance & privacy, data engineering & platforms, data analytics and data science. We are a passionate team of data enthusiasts with a mission to empower Endeavour to achieve its ambitions through data driven insights.

The Role
The Machine Learning Engineering Chapter Lead - Advanced Analytics sits in the Group Data Practice in the Advanced Analytics Team and is a specialist skill/people management career pathway at Endeavour. The Machine Learning Engineering capability’s core purpose is to productionise machine learning models and monitor productionised model performance.

Endeavour operates an Agile, matrixed environment, with Practices/Chapters providing people management and capabilities, whilst Product squads deliver business missions. Chapter members are embedded in cross-functional Product delivery squads, bringing their specific skill to that squad to deliver on the Product initiatives.

Your primary function is recruitment, line management, delivery squad allocation and capability uplift of the machine learning engineering capability at Endeavour. You are a capability expert and act as a servant leader for your chapter members. You will coach, mentor, support and upskill the chapter members to ensure that we have the capability necessary to deliver value through the delivery squads. You will drive the creation and maintenance of standards to ensure quality delivery of the capability across the organisation. You will work closely with Product Managers to recruit and allocate chapter members into delivery squads.

This is a hands-on role whose primary responsibility is chapter and capability management, however depending on the size of the chapter and needs of the business, this role may also contribute to delivery, providing the machine learning engineering capability within a cross-functional agile squad.

About You

You’re customer focused and passionate about being part of a tribe of great people and you actively contribute to your workplace community.

With a growth mindset, you orient around doing what’s meaningful, purposeful and delivers value. You’re excited about being part of a data-led transformation at one of Australia’s biggest companies.

You’re curious and empathetic. You have an eye for the bigger picture while also ensuring the details are in order. You deal with complexity by collaborating with colleagues, listening to customers, testing ideas and continuously learning. You take authorship for what you create.

A day in the life of a MLE Chapter Lead @ Endeavour

• Recruitment, line management, delivery squad allocation and capability uplift of the Machine Learning Engineering capability at Endeavour, providing skills to productionize machine learning models, working closely with Data Scientists and Data Engineers
• Chapter member line management (including performance reviews), career pathway support and mentoring
• Actively coach, mentor, support & upskill Chapter Members to improve performance, reinforce continuous improvement and guide career progression
• Ensure that chapter members are delivering value in their assigned squads/teams
• Define the chapter capability and take ownership for establishing training, coaching etc to enable chapter members to upskill in the capability
• Creation and governance of standards and appropriate tools to drive consistency and quality in the capability across Endeavour (in line with enterprise technology, data privacy and security standards)
• Remove impediments from the chapter function
• Recruit, onboard and offboard chapter members to Endeavour Group
• Stay abreast of work allocated to squads to understand improvement possibilities and/or sharing between chapter members, and challenges facing chapter members, continuously facilitate the knowledge reuse, and improve efficiencies of the process
• Setting objectives for the Chapter and reporting using defined standards
• Reinforcing of Endeavour’s Agile & Scrum values and principles
• Responsible for ensuring Chapter norms and standards are understood and followed by their members
• Enables close cooperation across all Practices & Chapters in Endeavour
• Participates when required Inception workshops, to enable decomposition and planning
• Coach Chapter Members in the capability discipline to be empowered and self-organised
• Assists Tribes & Squads when they require recruitment and/or growing of Chapter aligned capabilities
• Facilitate discussion to resolve conflict within the Chapter
• Thought leadership in the capability; Maintains connection with external industry developments for potential opportunities in capability development
  
  

What You'll Need To Suceed

• 10+ years experience in machine learning engineering or a similar capability, including code optimisation, MLOPs, model management, containerisation, deployment and monitoring model performance
• 2+ years leadership capability with a proven track record leading high performance teams
• Advanced knowledge of machine learning engineering industry frameworks and professional standards
• Experience in Technology delivery, waterfall and agile
• Python and SQL skills
• Experience with distributed programming (e.g. Apache Spark, Pyspark)
• Software engineering experience/skills
• Strong knowledge of Data Science
• Experience working with big data cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS)
• Devops experience
• CI/CD experience
• Experience with Unit Testing, TDD
• Experience with Infrastructure as code
  
  

Desirable

• Google Cloud Platform experience
• Azure Databricks experience
• Experience working with retail offline (e.g. store sales) and online data sets (e.g. ecommerce)
• Experience working with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data
• Experience working with unstructured data
• Data science knowledge
• Retail industry experience
• Experience with Java and/or C#
• Experience with Object-Oriented programming (OOP)
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Excellent remuneration package and flexible working in every sense. We value our people
• Everyday Rewards plus card - access exclusive employee discounts across Woolworths, BigW and Endeavour Group brands (BWS, Dan Murphy’s etc) and 50% off food at ALH venues.
• Our innovative ways of working include headspace mornings once a month (no meetings company-wide), opportunity to partner alongside bright minds and genuine investment in leading technologies
• Paid learning & development opportunities
• Career progression to help you realise your potential. As our business grows so do the opportunities for our people
• Access to our Endeavour Group Employee Share Scheme!
• Wine education: Bronze, Silver & Gold certifications
• Work with an industry-leading team and be a part of one of the most exciting retail transformations in Australia
  
  

Grow with Endeavour Group
Bring your spark. Tap into our spirit. That’s the power of Endeavour.

If you want to experience the diverse spirit of drinks and hospitality businesses, here you can tap into Australia’s leading brands including Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH, Pinnacle Drinks, Endeavour X and more.

If you have a passion for connecting people with products they love, here you can join an industry that’s deeply embedded in the way Australians socialise, unwind and celebrate.

If you want access to a breadth of career opportunities, here you can enjoy a path that travels between diverse roles and businesses within the Group.

If you’re already asking ‘what’s next for me’ and our industry, here you’ll thrive.

If you want to bring your full self to doing fulfilling work, here you’ll find a culture that’s welcoming, inclusive and responsible.

If you are looking for flexibility, here we encourage our team members to work in ways that meets their work / life commitments and supports their wellbeing.

Come grow with Endeavour where we are passionate about our purpose of creating a more sociable future together, and leaving a positive imprint on our team members and the communities we serve.
If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application.

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