Senior Data Scientist - Production ML on Databricks/Azure

Blueflag-LLP; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health plan

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Job summary

BlueFlag is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to turn operational problems into production ML/AI solutions on Databricks in Azure. You will work with internal clients, frame problems, and deploy models with CI/CD and MLflow.

The role is hands-on and requires real-world production experience bringing models from notebook to live systems. You will migrate workloads from R/Stata/SAS to Python, build governance-friendly feature pipelines, and monitor models for drift and quality while collaborating

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Systems, Business, or a related scientific or technical discipline.
• 15+ years of experience (or commensurate experience).
• Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn) and advanced SQL for data analysis.
• 2+ years hands-on work on a leading cloud data platform such as Databricks, Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience across end-to-end data science workflow including experiment tracking and model management with MLflow or similar.

Responsibilities

• Consult with internal clients to frame business problems as analytical or ML problems, define success metrics, and set realistic scope.
• Build data products and workflows from source data discovery through production deployment.
• Migrate and modernize client workloads to Python and Databricks, achieving measurable gains in runtime, cost, or reliability.
• Develop, train, and validate ML models for complex business problems.
• Engineer features and build reusable feature pipelines on large datasets with PySpark and SQL.
• Track experiments, register models, and manage model versions and promotion through MLflow.
• Deploy models for batch scoring and real-time serving, and automate retraining with CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor models in production for performance, data drift, and data quality.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark PySpark

ML model deployment

Experiment tracking

Databricks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Stats

15+ years experience

Tools

Databricks

Azure

MLflow

Git

CI/CD

R/Stata/SAS

Job description

BlueFlag is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to turn operational problems into production ML/AI solutions on Databricks in Azure. You will work with internal clients, frame problems, and deploy models with CI/CD and MLflow.

The role is hands-on and requires real-world production experience bringing models from notebook to live systems. You will migrate workloads from R/Stata/SAS to Python, build governance-friendly feature pipelines, and monitor models for drift and quality while collaborating