Data Science and Machine Learning Senior Associate

• Employees in this job function are responsible for predicting and extracting meaningful trends, patterns, and recommendations from raw data.
• This is achieved by leveraging data science methodologies such as machine learning, predictive modeling, mathematics, statistics, and advanced analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and analyze datasets to determine appropriate analytical approaches that support data-driven decision-making.
• Design and implement data analysis solutions, machine learning models, hypotheses, algorithms, and experiments.
• Apply analytics techniques including data mining, predictive and prescriptive modeling, statistics, and machine learning to identify patterns, relationships, and trends.
• Design efficient data loading, augmentation, and analysis techniques to improve accuracy and scalability of machine learning models, including automation-ready solutions.
• Stay current with advancements in data science, machine learning, analytics tools, and methodologies, continuously identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy.

Project Scope / Deliverables

• Fully Functional Middleware API: Production-ready middleware layer that ingests, aggregates, and exposes 6 core operational data points.
• Agentic AI Orchestrator: Deployed multi-agent system that monitors middleware data, flags anomalies, and generates structured recommendation JSON payloads.
• Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Dashboard Integration: APIs and webhooks feeding AI reasoning, recommendations, and confidence scores into the front-end application.
• Co-Developed Codebase: Modular, tested Git repository co-authored with internal team.
• Coaching Playbook: Training and knowledge transfer documentation for internal engineering and product teams.

Primary Skills Required

• J2EE
• Logistics
• Python
• Machine Learning

Additional Skills Preferred

AIPGEE

• Advanced Data Migration
• API Development
• Data Management

Experience Required

• Specialist level
• 5+ years of relevant experience

Preferred Experience

• Automotive industry
• Supply Chain / Logistics

Education Required

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education

Certification program in relevant field

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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AI & Hiring Disclosure

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