Data Scientist III Full-time

Senior Technical Lead

Delivering enterprise GenAI and advanced ML solutions across BMS functions. Designs/implements LLM applications (RAG, fine-tuning, agentic workflows) and production LLMOps/MLOps practices. Influences technical standards, mentors DS-1/DS-2 talent, and aligns stakeholders from problem framing to delivery. Typical profile: 5+ years applied DS/ML with strong GenAI depth; biopharma/healthcare domain experience preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead GenAI solution design: Architect enterprise LLM apps (RAG, agents, automation) from prototype to production.
• Fine-tune & adapt models: Apply LoRA/QLoRA/PEFT (and alignment where applicable) for domain use cases.
• Agentic workflows: Design multi-step orchestration using frameworks such as LangGraph/AutoGen/CrewAI.
• Evaluation & quality: Own LLM evaluation, hallucination mitigation, and responsible AI standards (e.g., RAGAS/TruLens/DeepEval).
• Knowledge infrastructure: Govern vector DB/search patterns and knowledge integrations for scalable retrieval.

• Own the model lifecycle: Frame problems, define data strategy, build models, deploy, monitor, and iterate.
• Advanced modeling: Apply ML/NLP/time series/causal and related methods to ambiguous, high-impact problems.
• Governance: Lead documentation, validation, and risk controls aligned to responsible AI and regulated needs (e.g., GxP).
• Experimentation: Design studies (A/B, quasi-experimental) to drive evidence-based decisions.

• Data strategy: Define acquisition, preprocessing, and enrichment for structured/unstructured enterprise data.
• EDA & insights: Surface patterns and opportunities from multi-domain datasets.
• Pipelines: Co-design scalable data/ML pipelines with engineering/platform teams.

• Technical direction: Drive architecture, standards, and engineering best practices across the pod.
• Mentorship: Coach DS-1/DS-2 via reviews, pairing, and growth feedback.
• Reusable assets: Build/maintain shared frameworks, accelerators, and templates.
• Knowledge sharing: Lead workshops, documentation, and community-of-practice efforts.

• Stakeholder partnership: Align senior leaders on priorities, value, and adoption
• Problem framing: Translate ambiguity into scoped workstreams with KPIs and milestones.
• Executive communication: Present architectures, results, and recommendations clearly.
• Delivery leadership: Manage priorities/risks across multiple initiatives in a matrixed environment.

Skills & Competencies:

GenAI & Advanced AI Expertise

• LLMs: Production experience deploying and integrating foundation models.
• RAG: Design and optimize retrieval (hybrid search, reranking, context strategies).
• Fine-tuning/alignment: Apply LoRA/QLoRA/PEFT and related techniques.
• Agents: Build orchestrated workflows using common agent frameworks.
• Responsible AI: Bias/safety controls, evaluation, and governance in regulated settings.

Core Data Science, ML & Statistical Skills

• Programming: Advanced Python; familiarity with distributed tooling as needed.
• Statistics: Inference, Bayesian methods, experimentation, and causal thinking.
• ML breadth: Supervised/unsupervised methods; strong model selection and tuning skills.
• Data at scale: Strong SQL and experience working with large datasets/cloud data services.

Cloud, LLMOps & Engineering Excellence

• Cloud: Deploy ML/GenAI solutions on AWS or Azure in production.
• LLMOps/MLOps: Versioning, CI/CD, monitoring, and safe rollout patterns.
• Containers: Docker/Kubernetes for scalable workloads.
• Engineering: Git/SDLC, APIs, and maintainable production code.

Leadership, Communication & Strategic Thinking

• Communication: Explain complex AI tradeoffs to senior audiences.
• Strategy: Turn ambiguity into roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Leadership: Set quality bars and drive architectural decisions.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Education: MS/PhD in a quantitative discipline (PhD preferred).
• Research/applied work: Evidence of strong ML/AI/NLP/statistical project experience.
• Experience: 5+ years delivering production DS/ML solutions end-to-end.
• GenAI depth: Hands-on LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows (core requirement).
• Technical leadership: Lead workstreams, mentor others, and make design decisions.
• Advanced ML: Build/validate/deploy complex models with measurable impact.
• Cross-functional delivery: Partner across business, engineering, and domain teams to ship.

Good to Have:

• Thought leadership: Publications, talks, or open-source in ML/GenAI.
• Multi-modal exposure: Experience with vision-language or related models.
• Knowledge graphs: Familiarity with biomedical ontologies/graphs is a plus.
• Commercial analytics: Exposure to GTN, market access, targeting, or forecasting.
• Clinical/RWD: Familiarity with trial data, claims/EHR, registries, and RWE.
• Regulated environment: Working knowledge of GxP/21 CFR Part 11 and AI/ML guidance.
• Architecture: Microservices and event-driven patterns (e.g., Kafka/SQS).
• IaC: Familiarity with Terraform/CDK/Bicep.
• App development: Experience shipping AI apps (API + simple UI) is a plus.

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