Director of Data Science & AI Solutions

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k plan

Wellness program

Job summary

CLA is seeking a Data Science Director to join the Internal IT team in Austin, TX. The role leads complex data science initiatives, integrating data wrangling, visualization, and advanced modeling using Python or R, with APIs, web scraping, and SQL/No-SQL databases.

You will automate workflows, build scalable AI-enabled solutions, and mentor analysts. You will drive technical oversight of models and AI systems, guide productionized analytics, and collaborate with engineering and data platform

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in 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.
• Supervisory experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee large scale analytical and AI initiatives, including data acquisition, transformation, modeling, AI system development, automation, and insight generation.
• Provide technical oversight and review of analytical approaches, models, and AI systems to ensure sound methodology, reproducibility, and scientific rigor.
• Guide the development and application of advanced statistical, machine learning, and AI-driven solutions, including predictive models, computer vision, LLMs, and agent-based systems.
• Lead the design and oversight of AI-enabled systems, including prompt engineering strategies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and agentic workflows.
• Establish and evolve analytical and AI best practices, documentation standards, and technical frameworks across the team.
• Ensure standards for model and AI system validation, monitoring, evaluation, documentation, and responsible AI use are consistently applied.
• Partner with engineering, IT, and data platform teams to enable scalable, reliable, and well governed solutions.

Skills

Data analytics

Statistics

Data science

AI

Cloud

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, Data Science or related field

Masters in Data Science/Analytics/AI is a plus

Tools

Python

R

SQL/No-SQL databases

Job description

CLA is seeking a Data Science Director to join the Internal IT team in Austin, TX. The role leads complex data science initiatives, integrating data wrangling, visualization, and advanced modeling using Python or R, with APIs, web scraping, and SQL/No-SQL databases.

You will automate workflows, build scalable AI-enabled solutions, and mentor analysts. You will drive technical oversight of models and AI systems, guide productionized analytics, and collaborate with engineering and data platform