Senior Data Scientist

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will own end-to-end delivery of strategic data science projects and partner with customers and internal teams to design and implement advanced analytics and AI solutions that create measurable business impact. This hands on role blends deep technical expertise with consulting and stakeholder engagement, enabling you to influence decisions and guide adoption of data-driven strategies.

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Responsibilities

Business Understanding & Impact

• Own delivery of complex, high-impact data science and AI solutions for strategic consulting engagements.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define business problems and translate them into actionable AI-driven solutions.

• Develop project plans, assess risks, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives and ethical AI principles.

• Identify opportunities to leverage generative AI for business transformation and innovation.

Data Preparation & Modeling

• Acquire, clean, and prepare large datasets for modeling.

• Build and deploy predictive and prescriptive models using modern machine learning techniques.

• Design, develop, and integrate generative AI applications (e.g., text, image, multimodal) into client workflows and solutions.

• Write efficient, maintainable code and ensure scalability for production environments.

• Implement prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation strategies for large language models and other foundation models.

Insight, Communication & Enablement

• Present findings to senior stakeholders using compelling storytelling and visualizations.

• Simplify complex ML/AI concepts for diverse audiences to drive understanding and adoption.

• Document best practices for AI application development and share knowledge across teams.

Collaboration & Consulting

• Act as a trusted advisor to internal teams and customers, ensuring solutions meet business needs.

• Promote responsible AI practices, including fairness, transparency, and explainability in model and application development.

• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tools to continuously enhance solution capabilities.

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

• OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Additional or preferred qualifications:

• Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

• OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)

• OR equivalent experience.

• Proven consulting and stakeholder engagement skills with proven ability to influence decisions.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).

• Knowledge of Responsible AI principles and ethical data practices.

• Experience with broader software engineering lifecycle practices, including version control, testing, DevOps, and production deployment of Machine Learning (ML) solutions.

• Experience with AI-assisted coding practices and specification-driven development.

• 1 to 3 years of Consulting (including System Integrator, Technical Consulting or Management Consulting) experience.

• Experience developing and deploying Agentic AI solutions

Data Science IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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