Protective Life
Lead DataOps / MLOps
$124K–$170K
Birmingham, AL +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- Birmingham, AL
Nebraska - Virtual
Work From Home - Experience
- 8+ years; includes several years operating production data and/or ML systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the DataOps/MLOps platform and operating model that enables reliable, secure, governed delivery of data pipelines and machine-learning models on Azure Databricks.
What you'll do
- Build and operate CI/CD, orchestration, observability, governance automation, and reproducible environments for data and ML systems.
- Establish production MLOps practices including model deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining automation.
- Set technical standards, mentor engineers, and oversee reliability, security, compliance, and cost optimization.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in data, ML, or platform engineering, or SRE/DevOps, including several years operating production data and/or ML systems.
- Technical leadership experience, including setting standards, building automation, and mentoring engineers.
- Strong Azure DevOps CI/CD and Git workflow expertise; hands-on orchestration and modern data-stack experience on Databricks.
- MLOps, Azure infrastructure-as-code, Python and SQL, observability/SRE, and secure handling of sensitive data experience.
Nice to have
- Financial services or insurance platform experience and familiarity with model risk and regulatory audits.
- Databricks administration, Azure Machine Learning, containers, data-quality tooling, or responsible-AI governance experience.
Pay
USD 124,500–170,000 base salary (per year)
Tools
Azure DevOps (ADO), Dagster, dlt (dltHub), dbt, Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, MLflow, Microsoft Azure
AI focus
Builds MLOps foundations for model deployment and serving, monitoring, drift detection, retraining, and model governance.
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