Principal Data Scientist

The Principal Data Scientist is a senior technical leader who shapes and delivers high-impact data science and AI solutions for clients and internal business areas. Combining deep expertise in machine learning and AI with a strong software engineering foundation, the role sets technical direction, leads complex initiatives from discovery to production, and turns ambiguous business challenges into scalable, measurable outcomes. The successful candidate will remain hands-on while influencing senior stakeholders, developing talent, strengthening engineering and governance standards, and helping to identify and shape new solution propositions.

Your Role Set the technical direction for complex, high-value data science and AI initiatives, aligning solution choices with business strategy, user needs, risk appetite and measurable outcomes. Lead end-to-end delivery, from opportunity identification, problem framing and data assessment through experimentation, deployment, adoption, monitoring and continuous improvement. Architect and build robust, scalable and maintainable Python-based ML and AI solutions across structured and unstructured data, applying sound software engineering practices.

Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks, baselines and acceptance criteria, assessing model performance, reliability, fairness, drift, operational readiness and business impact. Act as a trusted technical adviser, translating ambiguous business needs into executable roadmaps and clearly communicati