Head of Data Science & Engineering, Finance

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 203,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobicy is seeking a Director of Data Science & Data Engineering for Finance to lead a small, high-impact team delivering trusted data, analytical systems, and AI-powered capabilities. You will guide both data science and data engineering with a business outcome focus.

You will partner with Finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmaps, improve data quality, and drive durable impact across forecasting and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience applying data science, ML, analytics, or data engineering to business problems.
• Experience directly managing and developing technical professionals, ideally both data scientists and data engineers.
• Strong foundation in either data science or data engineering with ability to work across the other discipline.
• Experience leading a portfolio of projects from problem definition through delivery and operation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a data scientist and a data engineer; establish clear expectations and career plans.
• Translate Finance goals into a focused portfolio of work; prioritize initiatives and handle technical debt.
• Provide technical leadership across data science and data engineering; guide framing, modeling, architecture, and production readiness.
• Identify high-value opportunities to apply AI, ML, automation, and analytics in Finance workflows.
• Improve source data quality, lineage, observability, and reliability across reporting and downstream analyses.
• Own analytical and modeling outcomes for financial planning, forecasting, and driver understanding.
• Create scalable operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, roadmap planning, and reviews.
• Communicate complex data considerations to Finance and executives to enable timely decisions.

Skills

Data science

Data engineering

Leadership

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Data Science / Engineering

Tools

Python

SQL

ML frameworks

Data governance tools

Job description

Jobicy is seeking a Director of Data Science & Data Engineering for Finance to lead a small, high-impact team delivering trusted data, analytical systems, and AI-powered capabilities. You will guide both data science and data engineering with a business outcome focus.

You will partner with Finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmaps, improve data quality, and drive durable impact across forecasting and decision-making.