What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Data Scientist - (W2 Only) position at SGS Technologie?
Job Title – Principal Data Scientist
Location – St. Petersburg, FL 33716 Or Denver, CO 80246 (Hybrid)
Duration – 12 Months contract to hire (Possibility of Extension and FTE conversion)
✅ Must be local to St. Petersburg or Tampa, FL or Denver, CO.
✅ Open to W2 employment only (no C2C or third-party)
✅ Visa-independent candidates only (no sponsorship available at this time)
Job Description:
- The Lead Data Scientist supports development of advanced decision support systems by employing advanced techniques from data analytics (including statistical analysis) and machine learning, particularly including NLP.
- The successful candidate will join an innovative and energetic team that develops capabilities that improve the performance of our business units and make them more efficient.
- This is a hands-on role in which the Data Scientist is expected to carry out a project from start to finish.
Skills:
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Strong knowledge of Machine Learning techniques, including NLP
- Knowledge of statistics, including hypothesis testing
- Strong Python skills
- Proficient in SQL
- Comfortable with Unix scripting
- Experience building models that actually delivered value to a business
- Experience deploying systems to a production environment
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Working knowledge of “big data” technology
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and six (6) years of relevant experience or combination of education, training and experience.
Notes from the Hiring Manager:
- Role needs to work onsite hybrid workstyle 2-3 days per week at one of the Client’s physical locations with St Pete and Denver preferred, no fully remote candidates.
- Need a senior Data Scientists.
- Focused on GenAI, validations, Improving accuracy, less on ML
- Strong with GenAI and Data Science.
- Design the process and evaluate how accurate it is over time.
- Python
- Automated evaluations, fine tuning of parameters. Will own the research and would accomplish the whole project.
- 3 years real exp doing Data Science Work.
- Will convert to FTE
- Big Data- not a requirement.
- Financial exp- Nice to have
