Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Colombo, LK)

Air Arabia
Colombo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6-8 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Architectural influence"]

Design, build, and operate a unified ML infrastructure that standardizes model lifecycle from research to production. Bridge Snowflake batch data with real-time inference on Kubernetes, enabling consistent, high-quality engineering across data science squads. Own the ML platform architecture, deliver end-to-end domain products (e.g., flight revenue forecasting and customer retention), and automate pipelines and CI/CD using Airflow and GitLab/GitHub tooling, including feature store and observability.

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Air Arabia
Air Arabia
2 months ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Colombo, LK)

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Job Summary

Design, build, and operate a unified ML infrastructure that standardizes model lifecycle from research to production. Bridge Snowflake batch data with real-time inference on Kubernetes, enabling consistent, high-quality engineering across data science squads. Own the ML platform architecture, deliver end-to-end domain products (e.g., flight revenue forecasting and customer retention), and automate pipelines and CI/CD using Airflow and GitLab/GitHub tooling, including feature store and observability.
Location: Colombo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and maintain core ML Platform architecture, integrating Snowflake/Snowpark with Kubernetes for hybrid workload support.
  • •Design and deliver domain-specific end-to-end data science products, including flight revenue forecasting, customer retention, and ground operations use cases.
  • •Automate end-to-end ML pipelines (data ingestion, model training, continuous deployment) using Apache Airflow and GitLab CI/GitHub Actions.
  • •Build and manage a centralized Feature Store and Model Registry in Snowflake to keep training and serving consistent.
  • •Implement observability for model performance and data drift, and develop reusable real-time serving wrappers using FastAPI or gRPC.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • •Fluency in English.
  • •Deep expertise in machine learning, statistics, and applied modeling, with production ML systems understanding.
  • •Mastery of Kubernetes and Docker, plus Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • •Expert-level Python (OOP, modular design) and SQL, with proficiency serving models built with LightGBM, XGBoost, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
Experience:6-8 yearsAviation
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationArchitectural influence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLKubernetesDockerTerraformSnowflakeSnowparkApache AirflowGitLab CIGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaEvidently AIFastAPIGRPCLightGBMXGBoostTensorFlowPyTorchMS Office

Company Brief

Air Arabia
Air Arabia is a low-cost carrier based in the United Arab Emirates, offering scheduled passenger and cargo services across the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe with a focus on affordable regional air travel.
Industry: Airlines
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 2003
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