Lead Data Scientist — Health & Animal Analytics

EPAM Systems; Colombia; On-site; COP 180,000,000 - 280,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Global career opportunities

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling, reskilling and certificates

LinkedIn Learning access

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Data Scientist / Data Analyst to design, validate, and integrate scalable ML solutions that standardize clinical signalment attributes and generate health-predisposition insights in high-volume data pipelines.

You will lead deterministic-first modeling, rigorous evaluation, and production transition with strong documentation and governance, collaborating with multinational teams across diverse domains.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data science and ML for classification tasks.
• End-to-end model delivery from prototyping through production.
• Strong Python, data engineering, and modeling skills.
• Animal-health domain knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of optimized models for species, gender, breed, weight classification, and age classification.
• Build health-predisposition insights models using standardized signalment attributes and governed ontologies.
• Apply a deterministic-first approach and use machine learning primarily for high-ambiguity scenarios.
• Define class-frequency tiers, calibrated thresholds, and evaluation plans beyond overall accuracy.
• Produce confidence scores, method traces, exception flags, and model versioning artifacts for each model.
• Create model cards and documentation supporting governance, reproducibility, and transition to operations.
• Validate performance across common, rare, ambiguous, and clinically significant cases using appropriate classification metrics.
• Collaborate with SMEs to refine labels, interpret validation feedback, and adjust modeling strategies.

Skills

Python

Databricks

MLflow

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing

Tools

Databricks

MLflow

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Data Scientist / Data Analyst to design, validate, and integrate scalable ML solutions that standardize clinical signalment attributes and generate health-predisposition insights in high-volume data pipelines.

You will lead deterministic-first modeling, rigorous evaluation, and production transition with strong documentation and governance, collaborating with multinational teams across diverse domains.