Data Science Manager & AI Solutions

CliftonLarsonAllen; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CLA, a top 10 national professional services firm, seeks a Data Science Director to join Internal IT in Dallas, TX. The role combines data wrangling, visualization, and advanced modeling in R, Python, or scripting languages, with API work, web scraping, and SQL/no-SQL databases.

You will lead analysts, guide AI projects, ensure productionized solutions, and drive responsible AI practices. With 8+ years of experience, you will oversee large-scale data science workstreams, manage workloads, and

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience with data analytics, statistics, data science, AI, financial consulting, computer science or related field required.
• Experience with APIs, web scraping, SQL/no-SQL databases, and cloud-based data solutions required.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, development, and performance management.
• Mentor analysts and support onboarding, skill development, and learning across career stages.
• Conduct workload planning, prioritization, and resource allocation to support multiple initiatives.
• Build and sustain a high-performing team culture rooted in collaboration, quality, accountability, and innovation.
• Lead large-scale analytical and AI initiatives, including data acquisition, transformation, modeling, AI system development, automation, and insight generation.
• Ensure sound methodology, reproducibility, and scientific rigor in analytical approaches and AI systems.
• Guide development of advanced statistical, machine learning, and AI-driven solutions, including LLMs and agent-based systems.
• Establish and evolve best practices, documentation standards, and technical frameworks across the team.
• Partner with engineering and data platform teams to enable scalable, governed solutions.
• Own delivery outcomes for data science and AI workstreams, ensuring quality and business alignment.
• Translate business objectives into analytical priorities, balancing near-term delivery with long-term capability building.
• Oversee planning, prioritization, and resourcing across projects and teams.
• Monitor solution performance, validation results, and model stability; troubleshoot complex data/AI issues.
• Ensure productionization with clear ownership, monitoring, and integration into workflows.
• Establish and enforce standards for documentation, reproducibility, quality assurance, and governance.
• Remove obstacles, manage risks, and ensure consistent execution across initiatives.
• Serve as primary contact for business leaders on analytics and AI initiatives.
• Define metrics, analytics frameworks, and delivery expectations with stakeholders.
• Coordinate work across teams to align analytical approaches and outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, and results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Evaluate adoption of new data sources and tools; contribute to enterprise analytics strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Project planning

Data science

APIs

Web scraping

SQL/NoSQL

Python/R

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree a plus

Job description

CLA, a top 10 national professional services firm, seeks a Data Science Director to join Internal IT in Dallas, TX. The role combines data wrangling, visualization, and advanced modeling in R, Python, or scripting languages, with API work, web scraping, and SQL/no-SQL databases.

You will lead analysts, guide AI projects, ensure productionized solutions, and drive responsible AI practices. With 8+ years of experience, you will oversee large-scale data science workstreams, manage workloads, and