Lead Data Scientist

Post Date

Jul 02, 2025

Location

Columbus,
Ohio

ZIP/Postal Code

43215
US
Sep 03, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Data Warehousing

Req #

COL-792864

Pay Rate

$57 - $71 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to assist with building and developing our Data Science team . The Lead Data Scientist to develop experts in modeling complex business problems and discovering business insights using statistical, algorithmic, mining, and visualization techniques. We are looking for a leader who has a passion for developing others, driving change, and continuously improving and evolving the application of technologies to meet todays and tomorrows challenges.
Prioritizes analytical projects based on business value and technological readiness
· Performs large-scale experimentation and build data-driven models to answer business questions
· Conducts research on cutting-edge techniques and tools in machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence
· Evangelizes best practices to analytics and products teams
· Acts as the go-to resource for machine learning across a range of business needs
· Owns the entire model development process, from identifying the business requirements, data sourcing, model fitting, presenting results, and production scoring
· Provides leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members and develops the team to work with all areas of the organization
· Works with stakeholders to ensure that business needs are clearly understood and that services meet those needs
· Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology while assessing the emerging technologys impact(s)
Coaches' individuals through change and serves as a role mod

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Required Skills & Experience

Masters degree
Python
R
SQL
SAS
5+ years of experience related work experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems, experience conducting statistical analysis with advanced statistical software, scripting languages, and packages, experience with big data analysis tools and techniques, and experience building and deploying predictive models, web scraping, and scalable data pipelines

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.