Job Description
Productionize the science
Refactor experimental forecasting code into modular, tested, reproducible components with clear interfaces and versioned configuration.
Establish the patterns others follow: repo structure, testing strategy, code review standards, dependency and environment management.
Build and enhance ML pipelines
Design, build, and harden training, backtesting, and inference pipelines in Azure ML.
Build feature engineering and data preparation on Snowflake, with attention to cost, query performance, and data contracts with upstream sources.
Automate build, test, and deployment through Azure Dev
Ops, including model promotion and rollback paths.
Support the forecast handoff into o9 so outputs land reliably on the planning cadence.
ML observability
Instrument pipelines for data quality, schema and feature drift, training/serving skew, and pipeline health.
Build forecast accuracy monitoring that reflects how the business actually measures it — accuracy and bias sliced by category, customer, and horizon — with alerting and clear ownership for what fires.
Make model lineage traceable: which data, which code, which config produced which forecast.
Explainability
Deliver driver-level explanations of forecast movements that a demand planner can read without a data science background.
Implement feature attribution and forecast decomposition, and surface it in artifacts and dashboards that reach the people making planning decisions.
Communication
Write short, clear design docs and decision records before building.
Present tradeoffs and results to technical and business stakeholders, and translate planner feedback into engineering work.
Leave the codebase and documentation in a state where the internal team can own it after the engagement ends.
Required qualifications
8+ years in ML engineering, data engineering, or software engineering, with substantial recent time at a staff/lead level of technical scope.
Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals — testing, packaging, code review, refactoring legacy or exploratory code without breaking behavior.
Production experience with Azure ML: jobs, pipelines, compute, model registry, endpoints, MLflow tracking.
Strong SQL and Snowflake experience, including performance and cost tuning on large tables.
CI/CD experience with Azure Dev
Ops (or equivalent) for ML workloads.
Demonstrated experience building ML monitoring and observability in production — not just standing up a dashboard, but defining what to measure and what to do when it moves.
Working knowledge of explainability methods (e.g. SHAP, permutation importance,
forecast decomposition) and the judgment to know their limits.
Time series forecasting experience: hierarchical forecasts, intermittent demand, proper backtesting and evaluation design.
Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
Direct experience with o9 Solutions, or comparable planning platforms (SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder).
CPG, retail, or consumer goods demand planning and supply chain context.
Databricks/Spark, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Power BI.
Feature store, containerization, or infrastructure-as-code experience.
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Skills and Requirements
Productionize the science
Refactor experimental forecasting code into modular, tested, reproducible components with clear interfaces and versioned configuration.
Establish the patterns others follow: repo structure, testing strategy, code review standards, dependency and environment management.
Build and enhance ML pipelines
Design, build, and harden training, backtesting, and inference pipelines in Azure ML.
Build feature engineering and data preparation on Snowflake, with attention to cost, query performance, and data contracts with upstream sources.
Automate build, test, and deployment through Azure Dev
Ops,
including model promotion and rollback paths.
Support the forecast handoff into o9 so outputs land reliably on the planning cadence.
ML observability
Instrument pipelines for data quality, schema and feature drift, training/serving skew, and pipeline health.
Build forecast accuracy monitoring that reflects how the business actually measures it — accuracy and bias sliced by category, customer, and horizon — with alerting and clear ownership for what fires.
Make model lineage traceable: which data, which code, which config produced which forecast.
Explainability
Deliver driver-level explanations of forecast movements that a demand planner can read without a data science background.
Implement feature attribution and forecast decomposition, and surface it in artifacts and dashboards that reach the people making planning decisions.
Communication
Write short, clear design docs and decision records before building.
Present tradeoffs and results to technical and business stakeholders, and translate planner feedback into engineering work.
Leave the codebase and documentation in a state where the internal team can own it after the engagement ends.
Required qualifications
8+ years in ML engineering, data engineering, or software engineering, with substantial recent time at a staff/lead level of technical scope.
Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals — testing, packaging, code review, refactoring legacy or exploratory code without breaking behavior.
Production experience with Azure ML: jobs, pipelines, compute, model registry, endpoints, MLflow tracking.
Strong SQL and Snowflake experience, including performance and cost tuning on large tables.
CI/CD experience with Azure Dev
Ops (or equivalent) for ML workloads.
Demonstrated experience building ML monitoring and observability in production — not just standing up a dashboard, but defining what to measure and what to do when it moves.
Working knowledge of explainability methods (e.g. SHAP, permutation importance, forecast decomposition) and the judgment to know their limits.
Time series forecasting experience: hierarchical forecasts, intermittent demand, proper backtesting and evaluation design.
Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
Direct experience with o9 Solutions, or comparable planning platforms (SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder).
CPG, retail, or consumer goods demand planning and supply chain context.
Databricks/Spark, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Power BI.
Feature store, containerization, or infrastructure-as-code experience.
📌 ML Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Toronto