Remote Senior Data Scientist, Document AI & IDP (AWS)

TEKsystems; Fort Collins (CO); Remote; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

HSA (Health Spending Account)

Time Off/Leave

AI learning opportunities

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and deploy Document AI, OCR and NLP solutions for a federal wildlife conservation modernization initiative. You will transform unstructured records into structured data assets to support compliance, analytics, and regulatory decisions, in a cloud-based environment.

Remote work is offered for this contract role, with responsibilities spanning model development, data pipelines, and collaboration with data architects and engineers to deliver

Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying machine learning solutions in production environments.
• Strong Natural Language Processing (NLP) experience.
• Advanced Python development skills.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience building data science solutions in AWS cloud environments.
• Experience working with OCR, Document AI, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), or document understanding technologies.
• Experience with predictive modeling, classification, information extraction, or related machine learning techniques.
• Experience evaluating model performance and improving accuracy through iterative testing and analysis.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Position of Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop OCR and Document AI solutions for large collections of scanned records, permits, certificates, and legacy documents
• Build machine learning and NLP models that extract, classify, validate, and transform unstructured information into structured data
• Create document understanding workflows that support information extraction, taxonomy‑based classification, and entity identification
• Develop confidence scoring frameworks and exception‑handling workflows for low‑confidence outputs
• Support human‑in‑the‑loop review processes that improve data quality and model performance
• Evaluate model performance using precision, recall, error analysis, and other machine learning metrics
• Build reproducible and auditable machine learning pipelines with clear lineage and validation practices
• Develop solutions that support reconciliation and relationship mapping across permits, applicants, species, countries, shipments, and related records
• Collaborate closely with data architects, subject matter experts, business analysts, and platform engineers
• Support cloud‑based AI and data processing solutions using AWS services and modern machine learning frameworks

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and deploy Document AI, OCR and NLP solutions for a federal wildlife conservation modernization initiative. You will transform unstructured records into structured data assets to support compliance, analytics, and regulatory decisions, in a cloud-based environment.

Remote work is offered for this contract role, with responsibilities spanning model development, data pipelines, and collaboration with data architects and engineers to deliver