Lead Data Scientist

Lead Data Scientist

Location: Bethesda, MD or Boca Raton, FL – 5 Days Onsite
Duration: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire
Work Authorization: Open to Sponsorship
Experience: 5–8 Years

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Scientist to design, develop, deploy, and monitor production-grade Machine Learning and AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across the complete ML lifecycle and experience translating complex business problems into scalable technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced Machine Learning and AI models.

• Perform feature engineering, algorithm selection, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and validation.

• Build scalable ML training and evaluation pipelines.

• Deploy ML models into production using CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies.

• Implement model monitoring, data/model drift detection, alerting, and automated retraining.

• Conduct model performance, fairness, bias, and error analysis.

• Translate model performance into measurable business outcomes.

• Mentor junior Data Scientists and provide technical leadership.

• Communicate technical solutions, results, and trade-offs to business stakeholders.

Required Skills

• 5–8 years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, or related fields.

• Expert-level Python and SQL.

• Strong experience with Machine Learning/AI model development and production deployment.

• Strong knowledge of feature engineering, model optimization, cross-validation, and hyperparameter tuning.

• Experience with MLOps, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.

• Experience with model monitoring, drift detection, retraining, and ML governance.

• Strong communication, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.