Lead Data Scientist, ML & AI CoE (AWS)

Huntington National Bank; North Carolina; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington National Bank's AI Center of Excellence seeks a Lead Data Scientist with deep expertise in ML, NLP, and AI to design, develop, and deploy models accelerating innovation and strategic decisions.

You will collaborate with product owners, manage end-to-end AI lifecycle across on‑prem and AWS, and stay current with emerging AI tech, building scalable self‑service tools for the organization.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years related work experience in AWS cloud machine learning or a similar AI platform.
• Experience with LLMs, RAG methods, agentic AI, and related workflows.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Owner to manage end-to-end AI development lifecycle across requirements, data sourcing, model development, POC demos, risk reviews and production deployment.
• Demonstrate self-discipline and ownership, maintaining transparent communication with leadership and surfacing risks or blockers to ensure timely delivery.
• Apply automation to streamline manual processes and develop reusable, scalable self-service tools and assets.
• Stay current with emerging ML, cloud, and AI technologies and integrate new capabilities into workflows and products.

Skills

Python

R

Spark

LangChain

LLMs

vector databases

embeddings

prompt engineering

RAG

Agentic AI

AWS Bedrock

Textract

JumpStart

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or related field

Tools

AWS Sagemaker

AWS Lambda

AWS S3

AWS Athena

Job description

Huntington National Bank's AI Center of Excellence seeks a Lead Data Scientist with deep expertise in ML, NLP, and AI to design, develop, and deploy models accelerating innovation and strategic decisions.

You will collaborate with product owners, manage end-to-end AI lifecycle across on‑prem and AWS, and stay current with emerging AI tech, building scalable self‑service tools for the organization.