Senior Data Scientist - State of Colorado

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy predictive models and advanced analytics solutions to support revenue forecasting, fraud detection, and policy impact analysis.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business requirements into data science projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Perform exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and statistical testing on large, heterogeneous datasets.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and model serving infrastructure using cloud services such as AWS.
• Create clear visualizations and dashboards to communicate insights to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior analysts and promote best practices in reproducible research and model governance.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in data science, with proven expertise in Python, SQL, and machine learning libraries (e.g., scikit‑learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Strong background in statistical modeling, hypothesis testing, and experimental design.
• Experience building production‑grade models and data pipelines on AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey complex analytical concepts to diverse audiences.