Manager of Data Science

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Wellness program

Job summary

CLA, a top national professional services firm, seeks a Director of Data Science to lead the Internal IT data and AI initiatives in Austin. You will oversee analytics, AI development, and production workflows, guiding a team of analysts and engineers.

Strong leadership, technical oversight, and stakeholder collaboration are essential. The role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, governance, and responsible AI practices, with direct impact on business outcomes and client service improvements.

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

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, development, and performance management.
• Mentor analysts and support onboarding, skill development, and continuous learning.
• Conduct workload planning, prioritization, and resource allocation across initiatives.
• Build and sustain a high-performing team culture rooted in collaboration, quality, accountability, and innovation.
• Lead large-scale analytics and AI initiatives from data acquisition to insight generation.
• Provide technical oversight and review of analytical approaches, models, and AI systems for rigor and reproducibility.
• Guide development of predictive models, ML/AI solutions including LLMs.
• Design AI-enabled systems with prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, and agentic workflows.
• Establish analytics best practices, documentation standards, and governance.
• Ensure model/AI validation, monitoring, and responsible AI use.
• Partner with engineering, IT, and data platform teams to enable scalable, well-governed solutions.
• Own delivery outcomes for data science workstreams and translate business objectives into analytical priorities.
• Oversee planning, prioritization, and resourcing across projects and teams.
• Monitor solution performance, validation results, and model/AI issues.
• Productionize solutions with clear ownership and integration into business workflows.
• Enforce standards for documentation, reproducibility, and quality assurance.
• Remove obstacles and manage risks across initiatives.
• Serve as primary contact for business leaders on analytics and AI initiatives.
• Define business questions, success metrics, and delivery expectations with stakeholders.
• Coordinate work across teams and locations for alignment of approaches and outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, and results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Data Science Leadership

Team Leadership

APIs & Web Scraping

SQL/NoSQL

Python

R

Education

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

Masters in Data Science/Analytics/AI (plus)

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Job description

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

CLA is looking to hire a Data Science Director to join our growing Internal IT team.

About the role:

CLA is looking to hire a Manger of Data Science

This role constructs complex solutions that integrate data wrangling, visualization, and advanced modeling techniques into a seamless workflow using software development best practices in R, Python, or other scripting languages. They are comfortable working with APIs, web scraping, and SQL/no-SQL databases. They automate business workflows while integrating stochastic/numeric algorithms in the process. This role will develop more autonomy to develop solutions and will lead others, take on administrative tasks, perform support roles, and get involved in new business development.

As Manager of Data Science, you will have to following responsibilities:

Leadership

• Provide daytoday leadership, coaching, development, and performance management.
• Mentor and guide analysts, supporting onboarding, skill development, and continuous learning across career stages.
• Conduct workload planning, prioritization, and resource allocation to support multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Build and sustain a highperforming team culture rooted in collaboration, quality, accountability, and innovation.

Technical Oversight

• 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, large language models (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.

Workflow Management

• Own delivery outcomes for data science and AI workstreams, ensuring solutions meet quality, performance, and business expectations.
• Translate business objectives into clear analytical and AI 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 or AI system stability; guide troubleshooting of complex data, model, or AI issues.
• Ensure solutions are productionized effectively, with clear ownership, monitoring, and integration into business workflows.
• Establish, refine, and enforce standards for documentation, reproducibility, quality assurance, and governance.
• Remove obstacles, manage risks, and ensure consistent execution across initiatives.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Serve as a primary point of contact for business and functional leaders on analytics and AI initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to define business questions, success metrics, analytical frameworks, and delivery expectations.
• Coordinate work across teams, offices, and disciplines to ensure alignment of analytical and AI approaches and outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, and results clearly to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Evaluate and recommend adoption of new data sources, technologies, and analytical and AI tools.
• Contribute to enterprise level analytics and AI strategy, including identifying high impact use cases and guiding their transition from concept to production.

What you will need:

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.

Education

Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.

• Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, Data Science (e.g., Informatics, Data Science, Health Data Science), AI, or related field preferred.
• Masters in a Data Science/Analytics/AI is a plus

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.