Senior AI Platform Engineer - Data Factory (f/m/d)

The Data Platform team is looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer based in Lille/Paris.

At the heart of the Decathlon Digital entity, we are looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer to join the Data Factory teams. This technological platform, global to the entire group internationally, supports the development of Data usage at Decathlon, from revenue calculation to the assistance in designing innovative products.

We operate a cutting-edge Modern Data Stack, with a Lakehouse as its central point. Our mission? To guarantee scalability, automation, and excellence in development practices for all our communities (Data Engineers, Analysts, Scientists).

Our AI / MLOPS team at the heart of the Data Factory is an essential part of this mission. It is responsible for equipping data scientists and ML engineers to carry out their work. Additionally, it plays a central role in making LLMs and agents available to our technical users.

YOUR FUTURE CONTRIBUTION

As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, within the AI / ML squad, you will play a key role in equipping data scientists and ML engineers to help them carry out their mission. Furthermore, you will have a central role in making generative AI technologies available to our developers. The team is composed of 4 Platform Engineers and 2 Product Managers.

You will be in charge of:

• Multi-Cloud Design & Architecture: Design robust and tailor-made AI architectures on AWS and GCP, being proactive in meeting the specific needs of our users.
• Industrialization & IaC: Lead the deployment, maintenance, and evolution of our AI infrastructures via Terraform, ensuring perfect consistency between our different Cloud environments.
• Automation & CI/CD: Optimize our production release cycles by orchestrating continuous deployment pipelines (CI/CD) via Git, thus ensuring speed and reliability.
• Governance & Excellence: Define the standards of tomorrow by creating guides, templates, and best practices, while ensuring strategic watch (AI & GenAI) to maintain our technological advantage.
• Expertise & Outreach: Embody our solutions to technical and business teams, particularly by hosting Office Hours and simplifying complex platform challenges.

TECHNICAL STACK

• AWS and GCP Cloud
• Databricks
• MLFlow
• Airflow
• Terraform
• Docker, Kubernetes

WHAT YOU BRING

• Experience: You have at least 4 years of experience in a similar role (MLOps, ML engineer, OPS Engineer, Platform Engineer);
• Pedagogy and Service Mindset: You know how to support users with clarity, translate complex AI concepts into simple technical solutions, and write robust documentation;
• Curiosity: Technological watch is part of your DNA;
• Collaborative Spirit: You thrive in an agile environment where sharing is the rule;
• Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills to rally support for your solutions. Your English is fluent to evolve in our international context.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• Hybrid work organization;
• Equipment provided in line with your missions and our societal commitments (Mac or Windows);
• A local project team within a global network (possibility of international career);
• Skills development and support (diversity of projects, technical certifications from the first year, internal and external training, etc.);
• Compensation package (employee profit sharing, monthly/quarterly bonuses).
  
  

OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY

At Decathlon, we recognize the immense value that diversity brings to our teams and we continuously strive to foster and cultivate an inclusive and equitable workplace: that's why Inclusion is one of our Human Fundamentals. We encourage people of all backgrounds and abilities to apply, as we are convinced that diversity of thoughts, cultures, identities, and lived experiences makes us stronger.

Decathlon is also committed to providing an inclusive and accessible selection process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations, you can request them via the application form, and they will be kept confidential. These requests do not affect the outcome of the recruitment process.