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Lead Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer

CapTech

Richmond, Virginia

Job description

Overview

In this role you lead the design and deployment of scalable ML solutions for clients in enterprise settings. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into data-driven models and production-ready systems. You help grow CapTech's ML/Datascience practice through client engagements and thought leadership. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, focusing on impactful, validated AI solutions that scale. You'll operate at the intersection of strategy, engineering, and client outcomes, delivering measurable value.

Compensation / Benefits
  • learning & development programs
  • modern health platform
  • fertility and family-forming coverage
  • fringe benefits stipend
  • 401(k) matching
  • flexible work arrangements
Responsibilities
  • Strategize with clients and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end ML solutions and explore new approaches
  • Provide technical leadership ensuring alignment with customer needs across teams
  • Deconstruct client needs into data-driven processes and analytical measures
  • Analyze and transform large datasets on enterprise platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Design, develop, and deploy advanced analytical solutions (recommender systems, NLP, risk scoring)
  • Productionize ML systems with optimization and scalability in mind
  • Grow ML/Datascience practices via client presentations, proposals, and business development, leading junior data scientists and engineers
Key requirements
  • 7+ years delivering data engineering and ML solutions on cloud platforms
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers in data engineering
  • Hands-on experience with large datasets (multi-billion records)
  • Proficiency in Python, Scala, or similar languages
  • SQL, Spark, NoSQL, and cloud data processing in production
  • Docker and microservices experience
  • Experience with data warehousing tools (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure SQL, Amazon RDS)
  • Production-scale ML systems experience across domains (personalization, NLP, CV)
  • Knowledge of DevOps, statistics, model management/versioning, and LLMs in production
  • Experience with prompt engineering, MCP and RAG, and agentic AI architectures
  • Experience with LangChain, n8n, pydantic and multi-agent orchestration
  • Technical leadership and mentoring
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Client communication and presentation
  • Python
  • Scala
  • SQL

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