Data Scientist

Data ScientistLocation: Cary, NC - onsiteDuration: 6 monthsRate: $90/hrKey ResponsibilitiesTeam Leadership: Lead the solution and a team of data scientists delivering AI and ML solution for marketing and business engagement use casesOwnership: Accountability for technical decisions, project outcomes, timelines, and production stability within a defined domain.Planning and Business alignment: Lead the planning and execution of data science use cases, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.Model Development: Design, train, and optimize machine learning and deep learning models for a variety of marketing and business engagement use casesData Analysis: Analyze complex data sets to identify trends, patterns, and actionable insights that can inform business strategies.Collaboration: Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop and implement data-driven solutions.Platform Integration: Enable seamless integration of AI capabilities into business applications and workflows through APIs, SDKs, and microservices.Stakeholder Communication: Visualize data, create reports, and present findings to senior management and cross-functional teams.Develop statistical models, analytics, and Machine Learning algorithms using Python and cloud tools (Azure).Research and Innovation: Stay up to date with the latest advances in AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning.ML-Ops Best Practices: Optimize platform components for efficiency, scalability, and reliability using best practices in distributed computing, resource management, and cloud-native architectures.Essential Business Experience and Technical SkillsRequired: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. 8+ years of overall experience in AI/ML engineering and/or data science. 5+ years of insurance business and/or financial industry experience with sales, marketing, and/or customer engagement analytics. Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating production ML and/ or GenAI solutions, including APIs, batch, and real-time inference. Experience in developing Machine Learning models using Python (preferably in the cloud) Familiarity with best practices for responsible AI, including data privacy, bias mitigation, and/or model monitoring. Strong SQL knowledge and data analysis skills for data anomaly detection and Exploratory Data Analysis. Experience with Dominos, Power BI, and/or Azure ML Statistical Knowledge: A strong understanding of statistics and mathematics is essential for data analysis and prediction. Use predictive modeling or AI solutions to increase and optimize customer experience/communication, revenue generation, ad targeting, and other business outcomes Very good presentation skills to present results clearly and effectively by creating presentations with storytelling, visualizations & results Very good problem solver and excellent communication skills - both written and verbalPreferred: Experience with employee benefits plans is a plus Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure/Databricks). Hands-on expertise with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, including integrating external data sources and vector databases to enhance LLM outputs. Strong understanding of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation of generative models for real-world applications. Ability to build, optimize, and scale GenAI pipelines for tasks such as document Q&A, summarization, chatbots, and knowledge retrieval.Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.