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American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)

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Lead Data Scientist

Data ScientistData ScientistFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1991H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

86 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishAzurePythonSQL

Job Description

Lead Data Scientist

American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)

• Define the details of and execute the data science technical strategy, aligned to business objectives and overall data/analytics senior leadership vision and strategy. • Collaborate on the data science roadmap with data & analytics product management and stakeholders. • Mentor peer team members for effective delivery as well as to help build a high-performing data science and consultative business insights team. • Provide cross team technical reviews, thought partnership, and coaching. • Deliver effective and sustainable ML and GenAI products that drive measurable business value. • Lead cross domain programs that create reusable platforms, shared modeling components, and standardized evaluation frameworks. • Establish technical guardrails for modeling, feature engineering, experimentation, and MLOps across teams. • Design scalable ML/GenAI systems and reference designs, balancing performance, latency, cost, and compliance. • Review and approve models, ensuring rigor in causal inference, statistical methods, monitoring, and evaluation. • Introduce new methods and technologies when needed to unlock value or resolve domain‑level challenges. • Guide teams in designing robust experiments to measure outcomes and value. • Plan work and help with managing team capacity with data product owners/management. • Define MLOps strategy, including feature stores, observability, drift/performance monitoring, retraining policies, and rollback protocols. • Partner with engineering and platform teams to select tools, build roadmaps, and set SLAs for data quality, reliability, and model governance. • Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and Responsible AI requirements. • Establish ML platform governance for performance, cost optimization, and security compliance. • Partner with data platform team and solutions architects to solve data gaps or optimize data pipelines for advanced analytics. • Interacts, consults with and influences senior management at various levels of the organization, with various internal organizations (e.g. management, finance, marketing, academics, operations, legal). • Acts as liaison between the business operations and available data, working on various initiatives to maintain visibility and understanding of the data and decisions being made. • Promotes identification of best practices and fosters cross functional sharing of initiatives, innovation and best practices. • Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data science and machine learning with repeated large scale impact and increasing responsibility
  • 2+ years of experience leading development of AI/ML data products and systems
  • Bachelor of Science in Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent with Masters in Data Science or related degree highly preferred
  • Deep expertise in machine learning and ML frameworks, applied mathematics, and statistics
  • Proven track record leading multi team initiatives, platform efforts, or domain level AI/ML strategies
  • Proven ability to evaluate models and systems for accuracy, fairness, scalability, and business value
  • Experience with MLOps
  • Experience optimizing lead funnel, developing forecasting models, and student retention optimization in the context of higher education is highly preferred
  • Experience with Agentic AI system design
  • Deep expertise in SQL and Python as well as ELT patterns and tooling
  • Strong expertise in data visualization to convey information effectively
  • Deep mastery of experimentation design and execution including A/B testing
  • Proven experience with cloud data and analytics platforms with Snowflake, Power BI, and Azure highly preferred
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills alongside creative thinking and innovative approaches within a strategic and broad perspective
  • Broad conceptual judgment, initiative, and must possess theoretical thinking skills.
  • Track record of delivering large-scale, mission-critical AI/ML systems with measurable business impact
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and influence across business and technology
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate and influence effectively with all levels of the organization from analysts to C-Level executives.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible working hours
  • Professional development budget
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Global team events

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