Data Scientist Lead, Vice President

About the role

We are seeking a Data Scientist Lead to help build and evolve a high-quality measurement data foundation that enables trusted analytics and decision-making at scale. This role focuses on designing and delivering resilient datasets, pipelines, and reusable metrics that support hypothesis-driven analyses and experiments across the product development lifecycle (PDLC). You'll be hands-on where needed, drive engineering standards, and help teams move faster by improving reliability, observability, and usability across the data lifecycle—so leaders can clearly see what's driving value, what's creating friction, and what operating-model shifts materially improve outcomes as teams become more agentic.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) with clear SLAs, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Develop and curate trusted data products (e.g., conformed dimensions, event models, marts) with strong documentation and clear ownership.
• Build and maintain well-defined metrics and feature-ready datasets that enable measurement of AI adoption and productivity outcomes (e.g., reusable aggregates, cohorting, time-windowed measures), including change control as definitions evolve.
• Drive data quality and governance through validations, reconciliations, lineage, access controls, retention, and auditability aligned to requirements.
• Develop and operate workflow orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow) to schedule, monitor, and manage data movement and transformations.
• Model and transform data for analytics using SQL/dbt to support trusted reporting and repeatable measurement.
• Write production-grade Python/PySpark with disciplined testing, performance tuning, and maintainable design.
• Partner with analytics, product, and engineering stakeholders to define requirements, success criteria, and consistent interpretation of key measures—particularly where inputs span finance business cases, PDLC/SDLC tools, and AI tool logs.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices (version control, code review, testing strategy, deployment processes, runbooks) and continuously improve observability and cost/performance (freshness, completeness, timeliness, scalability, spend).
• Mentor and develop a team of 2, influencing technical direction through standards, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering production data solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment (actively