Data Scientist - Tech Lead
Promtior · Département Montevideo
Job description
About the role
We are seeking a Data Scientist – Tech Lead to lead our data science team, defining technical direction, modeling approaches, and quality standards while owning the full lifecycle of data science initiatives.
Key responsibilities
- Lead a team of data scientists, defining technical direction, modeling approaches, and quality standards.
- Own the full lifecycle of data science initiatives from problem framing to deployment and monitoring.
- Design and oversee experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing and causal inference.
- Define standards for reproducibility, code quality, model documentation, and performance monitoring.
- Decide between classical ML, statistical modeling, or LLM‑based approaches and justify trade‑offs.
- Partner with data engineering, product, and business stakeholders to secure data and translate results.
- Mentor the team through code reviews, technical guidance, and career development.
Required profile
- Minimum 6 years of experience as a Data Scientist, with at least 2 years leading or mentoring a team.
- Proven track record of taking models to production and maintaining them post‑deployment.
- Strong development skills in Python (pandas, scikit‑learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow) and SQL on large datasets.
- Solid statistical foundation in experimentation design, A/B testing, hypothesis testing, and causal inference.
- Experience with the full ML lifecycle: feature engineering, validation, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining.
- Hands‑on experience applying LLMs or GenAI to production use cases.
- Experience with distributed processing (Spark / Databricks or equivalent) and cloud environments (AWS, GCP or Azure).
- Ability to communicate methodology, results, and uncertainty to non‑technical stakeholders.
- Advanced English level.
Required skills
- Python (pandas, scikit‑learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- SQL
- Spark / Databricks
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- MLflow (MLOps tooling)
- Feature stores
- Model registries
What we offer
- 20 paid days off per year.
- Hybrid work model.
- Flex Days: monthly team activities.
- Professional development courses.
- Internal clubs (soccer, padel, running, cinema).
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Promtior
Département Montevideo