Senior Data Science Architect — Enterprise ML Pipelines

Lovelytics; Arlington, Chicago (VA, IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovelytics is seeking a Data Scientist Architect with hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade ML solutions on the Databricks platform. You will lead technical strategy, design end-to-end ML pipelines, and drive pre-sales engagements from scoping to delivery.

The role shapes business-value metrics, proposals, and cross-functional delivery teams to build scalable AI/ML applications. Strong consulting acumen and executive communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, economics or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data science & AI/ML, including large-scale solution deployments.
• 5+ years in a client facing role, preferably in a professional services firm.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.
• Proven track record designing and implementing modern data science solutions in forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, computer vision, risk modeling or optimization.

Responsibilities

• Define clear business-value metrics alongside technical performance targets for engagements.
• Lead scoping, feasibility assessments and design for proposals and client pitches.
• Design scalable, secure, end-to-end ML/AI pipelines across data analysis, feature engineering, model training, deployment and MLOps.
• Direct cross-functional teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and ML Engineers to deliver solutions.
• Establish code quality standards, model validation protocols and best practices to prevent debt and ensure reliability.
• Articulate technical concepts and model trade-offs to technical and C-suite stakeholders.
• Design workflows and user integration strategies to drive adoption of AI/ML tools.
• Conduct client enablement workshops and knowledge transfer sessions.

Skills

Clear communication

Client-facing experience

Python

SQL

ML/DL system design

Pre-sales / proposals

Revenue modeling

Forecasting / ML pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering/Statistics/Economics

Tools

Databricks

MLflow

Delta Tables

Unity Catalog

Hugging Face

LangChain

DSPY

Job description

Lovelytics is seeking a Data Scientist Architect with hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade ML solutions on the Databricks platform. You will lead technical strategy, design end-to-end ML pipelines, and drive pre-sales engagements from scoping to delivery.

The role shapes business-value metrics, proposals, and cross-functional delivery teams to build scalable AI/ML applications. Strong consulting acumen and executive communication are essential for success.