Senior Data Scientist: ML, Data Pipelines & Business Impact

Gradera; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Gradera, an AI Native Services firm, seeks a Senior Data Scientist to transform complex data into scalable ML solutions. You will work across the full data lifecycle with data engineering and business teams to prototype, validate, and deploy models, experiments, and analytics tools.

The role emphasizes getting insight from big data, building reliable data pipelines, and delivering data-driven recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Data Scientist experience required in a business environment.
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders, data teams, SMEs, and product owners.
• Proven ability to connect business objectives with technical solutions.
• Residence within the Dallas/Fort Worth area is required and on-site client visits are expected.
• Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow) and/or R.

Responsibilities

• Collect, clean, and analyze large structured and unstructured datasets from multiple sources.
• Conduct thorough exploratory data analysis to understand distributions, relationships, and outliers.
• Profile datasets for quality, completeness, and modeling fitness.
• Investigate data lineage and document data flow across systems.
• Identify and resolve data anomalies with data engineering.
• Translate data into clean analytical datasets for modeling and reporting.
• Apply statistical techniques to extract signals from noise.
• Build and deploy ML models including regression, classification, clustering, NLP, and time-series.
• Design, evaluate, and analyze A/B tests using causal inference.
• Develop data-driven recommendations backed by rigorous statistics.
• Write production-ready code in Python or R and collaborate on data pipelines.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Python

SQL

R

Databricks

SQL Server

DB2

Snowflake

Redshift

Azure

AWS

MLflow

Kubeflow

Airflow

Kafka

Spark

Job description

Gradera, an AI Native Services firm, seeks a Senior Data Scientist to transform complex data into scalable ML solutions. You will work across the full data lifecycle with data engineering and business teams to prototype, validate, and deploy models, experiments, and analytics tools.

The role emphasizes getting insight from big data, building reliable data pipelines, and delivering data-driven recommendations.