Senior Data Scientist

Quantiphi; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantiphi is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive predictive analytics and ML initiatives for enterprise use cases. You will build scalable, production-ready ML solutions on AWS, focusing on forecasting, risk modeling, and customer analytics.

The role requires hands-on leadership, translating business problems into data-driven solutions, and end-to-end implementation using AWS SageMaker with measurable business impact. Remote (USA) role with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience implementing, and developing cloud solutions on AWS.
• Strong experience leading predictive analytics initiatives using traditional ML techniques including regression, classification, clustering, and time series forecasting.
• Hands-on experience with time series forecasting models including SARIMA, Prophet, and other ML-based forecasting approaches.
• Proficiency in Python with libraries such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, Pandas, NumPy.
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques and their real-world pros/cons.
• Proven ability to translate business problems into scalable ML solutions, driving feature engineering and end-to-end model development.
• Hands-on experience on AWS ML services with SageMaker including Training, Inference, and Processing Jobs.
• Experience leading model deployment on AWS SageMaker with focus on performance, governance and business impact.
• Experience with MLOps workflows and production ML architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data science initiatives for predictive analytics use cases such as demand forecasting, churn prediction, and risk modeling.
• Translate business requirements into ML problem statements and define modeling approaches.
• Design, build, and deploy ML models using traditional techniques (regression, classification, clustering, time series).
• Drive feature engineering, data prep, and exploratory data analysis to improve model performance.
• Develop and manage scalable ML pipelines from data ingestion to deployment.
• Deploy and manage models on AWS using SageMaker and related services.
• Ensure model performance through validation, monitoring, and retraining.
• Collaborate with data engineering and MLOps teams to productionize ML solutions.
• Apply model governance, explainability, and responsible AI practices.
• Mentor junior data scientists and provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
• Communicate insights and recommendations effectively to stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

ML problem framing

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Python

Time series forecasting

Feature engineering

Job description

Quantiphi is an award-winning, AI-First global digital engineering company that helps the world’s leading Fortune 1000 organizations transform bold ideas into measurable business impact. We go beyond building innovative AI technologies—we solve the problems that matter most to our clients.

Since our founding in 2013, Quantiphi has built a proven track record of turning complex challenges into meaningful outcomes across industries.

Headquartered in Boston, with more than 4,000 professionals worldwide, we partner with global enterprises to deliver large-scale digital, cloud, and AI-driven transformation. #SolvingWhatMatters.

We are an Elite and Premier partner to Google Cloud, AWS, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and other leading technology platforms, and our work has been recognized across the industry, including:

• 21 Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the past 10 years
• 3 AWS AI/ML Partner of the Year awards
• 3 NVIDIA Partner of the Year awards
• 3 Snowflake Partner of the Year awards
• Rated Leaders by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest Group and other leading analyst firms

Quantiphi delivers First-in-class AI solutions across Life Sciences, Healthcare, Banking, Financial Services, CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, High-Tech, Telecommunications, etc., powered by cutting-edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators.

We are also proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work—reflecting our commitment to our people and our culture.

Role: Senior Data Scientist

Experience Level: 8+ years

Employment type: Full Time

Location: Remote (USA)

Description:

• We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to drive predictive analytics and machine learning initiatives for enterprise use cases. This role focuses on building scalable, production-ready ML solutions using traditional machine learning techniques across domains such as forecasting, risk modeling, and customer analytics.
• The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader who can translate business problems into data-driven solutions, define modeling strategies, and lead end-to-end implementation on AWS while ensuring measurable business impact.

What you will do:

• Lead end-to-end data science initiatives for predictive analytics use cases such as demand forecasting, churn prediction, and risk modeling.
• Translate business requirements into ML problem statements and define appropriate modeling approaches.
• Design, build, and deploy machine learning models using traditional ML techniques (regression, classification, clustering, time series).
• Drive feature engineering, data preparation, and exploratory data analysis to improve model performance.
• Develop and manage scalable ML pipelines from data ingestion to model deployment.
• Deploy and manage models on AWS using services such as SageMaker.
• Ensure model performance through validation, monitoring, and periodic retraining.
• Collaborate with data engineering and MLOps teams to productionize ML solutions.
• Apply best practices for model governance, explainability, and responsible AI.
• Mentor junior data scientists and provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
• Communicate insights, model outputs, and recommendations effectively to business stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications (BQ):

• 8+ years of relevant hands-on technical experience implementing, and developing cloud solutions on AWS.
• Strong experience leading predictive analytics initiatives using traditional ML techniques including regression, classification, clustering, and time series forecasting.
• Hands-on experience with time series forecasting models including SARIMA, Prophet, and other ML-based forecasting approaches.
• Proficiency in Python with experience in libraries such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, Pandas, NumPy.
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (Supervised/unsupervised etc.) (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks.
• Proven ability to translate complex business problems into scalable ML solutions, driving feature engineering strategies and end-to-end model development.
• Hands-on experience on AWS Machine Learning services. Proven experience using AWS Sagemaker leveraging different types of data sources, Training jobs, real-time and batch Inference, and Processing Jobs.
• Experience leading model deployment on AWS SageMaker with a strong focus on performance optimization, model governance, and measurable business impact.
• Implement and manage MLOps based model lifecycle and best practices for ML architecture in production environments.
• Experience with at least one of the workflow orchestration tools, Airflow, StepFunctions, SageMaker Pipelines, Kubeflow etc.
• Ability to create end to end solution architecture for model training, deployment and retraining using native AWS services such as Sagemaker, Lambda functions, etc.
• Experience in building model monitoring and explainability workflows in production environments.

Other Qualifications (OQ):

• Experience defining and driving model governance frameworks and performance monitoring strategies in production environments.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Developers, QA, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and implement solutions.
• Experience with Generative AI development.
• Experience working on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines

What is in it for you:

• Join one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-first digital engineering companies and make a real impact at scale.
• Lead and collaborate with a high-energy team of talented, driven individuals solving complex, meaningful challenges.
• Work with Fortune 500 companies and disruptive innovators in a research-driven environment with 60+ patents.
• Stay ahead of the curve by gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies while continuously upskilling.