Strategic Data Science Lead — AI/ML & Analytics

Prescient Edge; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Career development

Networking opportunities

Positive work environment

Job summary

Prescient Edge is seeking a senior analytics leader to oversee the development, deployment, and evaluation of predictive and prescriptive analytics aligned with mission objectives. You will structure collaboration between data science and data engineering and drive enterprise-level initiatives in a cloud data science setting.

The role requires mastery of ML techniques, feature engineering, model validation, data provenance, and Agile governance.

Qualifications

• Lead development of predictive and prescriptive analytics aligned with mission objectives.
• Expertise in ML, statistics, feature engineering, model validation, and data provenance.
• Experience implementing Agile analytics sprints and cross-team collaboration.
• Proven record deploying enterprise‑level analytics with governance and scale.
• Strong background in mission-focused analytics and data-driven decision support.
• Experience in cloud-based data science environments (AWS, Azure, Databricks).

Responsibilities

• Oversee development, deployment, and evaluation of predictive and prescriptive analytics to ensure alignment with mission objectives and operational needs.
• Establish a structured framework to distinguish data science and data engineering tasks, ensuring collaboration between teams.
• Submit the Predictive Analytics Strategy & Implementation Report detailing model development progress, validation, and mission integration.
• Coordinate access to compute and storage resources for large-scale model training and analytics workloads, including GPU environments and high-performance storage.
• Fund usage-based compute and storage costs through inter-task chargeback arrangements, as approved by the Government PM.

Skills

Predictive analytics

Prescriptive analytics

Machine learning

Feature engineering

Model validation

Data provenance

Agile methodologies

Cross-team collaboration

AI/ML at scale

Cloud data science

Education

Master’s degree or 11 years equivalent experience in AI/ML analytics

Tools

AWS

Azure

Databricks

Job description

Prescient Edge is seeking a senior analytics leader to oversee the development, deployment, and evaluation of predictive and prescriptive analytics aligned with mission objectives. You will structure collaboration between data science and data engineering and drive enterprise-level initiatives in a cloud data science setting.

The role requires mastery of ML techniques, feature engineering, model validation, data provenance, and Agile governance.