Mid-Level Data Scientist: Build Tools, Scale Systems

Consulting Plus; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Consulting Plus in Des Moines, IA is hiring a Data Scientist to balance speed and stability while shipping software used by millions. A mid-level Data Scientist owns their work and collaborates with a tight team.

Salary ranges from $65,000 to $92,000 per year. The role emphasizes building internal tooling, maintaining backward compatibility of machine-learning schemas, and partnering with analysts to align TensorFlow models with real behavior.

Qualifications

• Fluency in Critical Thinking earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial.
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives.
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten.
• A client-centric bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait.
• Calm under the quick-to-ship chaos a mid-level role tends to generate.
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself.
• A writer's ear for tone in a high-stakes email.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Keep Scikit-learn schemas backward-compatible so Consulting Plus never forces a breaking upgrade.
• Pair with technology analysts so Consulting Plus's TensorFlow models match real behavior.
• Catch the Mentoring race conditions that only surface under Des Moines peak traffic.
• Untangle the Hypothesis Testing dependency knots that have slowed Des Moines releases for months.
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Leadership

Documentation

Client focus

Composure

Risk management

Tone of written communication

Tools

Scikit-learn

Keras

TensorFlow

Job description

Consulting Plus in Des Moines, IA is hiring a Data Scientist to balance speed and stability while shipping software used by millions. A mid-level Data Scientist owns their work and collaborates with a tight team.

Salary ranges from $65,000 to $92,000 per year. The role emphasizes building internal tooling, maintaining backward compatibility of machine-learning schemas, and partnering with analysts to align TensorFlow models with real behavior.