Senior Data Science & AI Platform Enablement Lead

Academy Sports + Outdoors; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Academy Sports + Outdoors is seeking a senior Data & Analytics leader to shape platform standards, manage data models, and drive ML-enabled analytics for a national retailer. You will influence cross-functional teams across data engineering, governance, and product to deliver scalable, production-ready analytics and personalization use cases.

Experience leading in B2C retail analytics and building production ML solutions is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, applied machine learning, or related fields.
• 4+ years of experience leading teams or major technical initiatives, including people management or matrixed leadership.
• 3+ years of experience in B2C, retail, e-commerce, marketing analytics, or customer-facing analytics domains.
• 3+ years of experience building, deploying, or enabling production-grade analytics or ML solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve reusable data, feature, and modeling patterns, MLOps and model lifecycle standards.
• Partner with CIO Data Engineering and Platform teams to influence canonical customer data models and datasets.
• Translate customer, marketing, and omnichannel needs into scalable technical patterns.
• Enable domain-aligned data scientists, analysts, and engineers to adopt standards and accelerate delivery.
• Influence enterprise priorities through evidence, proposals, and proofs of value.
• Represent customer-domain data needs in governance forums and evolve practical standards.
• Lead Adobe Analytics and Quantum Metrics data capture for company-wide use.
• Serve as the data domain owner for customer data domains and data flows.
• Collaborate with IT and engineering to secure data integrations at scale.

Skills

Modular code

Production-grade analytics

ML systems

Digital analytics

Cross-functional influence

Data governance

MLOps

Personalization use cases

Early-to-mid maturity data

Shaping standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Sciences

Master's degree in Analytics or data science (preferred)

Tools

Adobe Analytics

Quantum Metrics

Job description

Academy Sports + Outdoors is seeking a senior Data & Analytics leader to shape platform standards, manage data models, and drive ML-enabled analytics for a national retailer. You will influence cross-functional teams across data engineering, governance, and product to deliver scalable, production-ready analytics and personalization use cases.

Experience leading in B2C retail analytics and building production ML solutions is essential.