Lead Data Scientist, Agentic AI & Business Impact

Lincoln Financial Group; Radnor (Delaware County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO/ parental leave

401K and employee benefits

Tuition assistance program

Work arrangements that work for you

Job summary

Lincoln Financial Group seeks a Data Scientist to join our AI Product & Delivery team, focusing on agentic AI systems powering our next generation of products. You will generate insights, build and validate models, design experiments, and measure business value while ensuring accuracy, safety, and reliability in a regulated financial services environment.

You will partner with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to turn analysis into decisions and guardrails.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of experience in data science or related analytical role.
• Hands-on experience building and evaluating ML models; experience with agentic AI systems strongly preferred.
• Experience designing and analyzing experiments (A/B testing, causal inference, or similar).
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and standard ML/data science tooling.
• Strong ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Analyze usage, performance, and outcome data to surface actionable insights on agentic AI features.
• Translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that track agent performance and business impact.
• Design, build, and validate models and agentic workflows; evaluate architecture choices balancing accuracy, latency, cost, and risk.
• Collaborate with engineering to productionize models and agents and monitor post-launch.
• Design and run experiments — A/B tests, offline evaluations, holdouts — with clear hypotheses and metrics.
• Define hypotheses, success metrics, and sample sizes; ensure statistical rigor.
• Interpret results and translate into go/no-go recommendations.
• Define and track metrics that connect AI features to business value and ROI.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML Tools

Communication

Data Science

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Data Science/Statistics/CS

Tools

LangSmith

Weights & Biases

Ragas

Azure OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic Claude

Vertex AI

Job description

Lincoln Financial Group seeks a Data Scientist to join our AI Product & Delivery team, focusing on agentic AI systems powering our next generation of products. You will generate insights, build and validate models, design experiments, and measure business value while ensuring accuracy, safety, and reliability in a regulated financial services environment.

You will partner with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to turn analysis into decisions and guardrails.