LexisNexis · 21 hours ago
Lead Data Scientist
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$105K/yr - $175K/yr
5+ years expLexisNexis is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will define and drive the technical strategy for high-impact machine learning initiatives, lead teams in developing and deploying AI systems, and collaborate with various partners to translate complex business challenges into scalable AI solutions.
AccountingLegalRisk ManagementSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead a team of data scientists; provide mentorship, technical guidance, and professional development
Serve as a player-coach, contributing hands-on to modeling and solution design while guiding others to deliver complex AI projects
Act as a technical lead, supporting Senior Data Scientists in scoping and managing GNS data science initiatives aligned with platform and business strategy
Consult and enforce processes to rigorously evaluate AI model and system performance through experimentation, validation, and monitoring
Collaborate with Senior Data Scientists and engineering teams to design, build, and deploy robust ML and LLM-based solutions for search, summarization, recommendations, and workflow automation
Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end ML pipelines, from data ingestion and feature engineering to deployment and ongoing monitoring
Establish and enforce technical standards in modeling, experimentation, reproducibility, and MLOps
Partner with Data Science project leads to ensure seamless model integration into production environments, maintaining scalability, quality, and observability
Partner with product managers, data engineers, system architects, and domain experts to translate business goals into actionable data science deliverables
Communicate technical findings, trade-offs, and recommendations effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Collaborate with across wider group of data science and platform teams to share best practices, reusable components, and frameworks that accelerate innovation across LexisNexis
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in data science, applied machine learning, or data engineering (NLP/LLM experience strongly preferred)
2+ years of experience leading or mentoring data scientists or engineers, with a proven record of successful project delivery
2+ years of hands-on experience with NLP tools and methods
Advanced programming and modeling proficiency in Python and ML frameworks
Strong background in developing, tuning and deploying NLP and LLM applications
Experience building scalable ML pipelines and moving solutions from research to production environments
Familiarity with cloud and containerized environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Docker
Working knowledge of model monitoring and observability tools
Excellent stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills
Proven ability to bridge the gap between technical concepts and business outcomes
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with a strategic, analytical mindset
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field
Preferred
Familiarity with search, summarization, document understanding, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
Knowledge of responsible AI frameworks, model governance, and fairness evaluation
Contributions to open-source ML/AI libraries
Advanced degree (master's or Ph.D.) preferred
Benefits
Comprehensive, multi-carrier health plan benefits
Disability insurance
Dependent care and commuter spending accounts
Life and accident insurance
Retirement benefits (salary investment plan/employer stock purchase plan)
Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
Company
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a data analytics company that provides information solutions and law legal databases to Law and corporate businesses.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$30MKey Investors
EquivoActua Corporation
2021-06-16Corporate Round
2000-03-22Series Unknown· $30M
1994-10-05Acquired
Leadership Team
Eric Bonnet-Maes
CEO - LexisNexis Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa
Sean Fitzpatrick
CEO LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland
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