Data Scientist
Lantern
Dallas Tx
Key Responsibilities
- Lead discovery sessions to define analytical problems, success metrics, data requirements, experimentation plans, and production roadmaps.
- Explore and prepare structured and unstructured data; perform feature engineering, statistical analysis, and model selection using Python, SQL, Spark, and Databricks notebooks.
- Build, evaluate, and tune predictive, forecasting, optimization, natural language processing, computer vision, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions.
- Use Azure Databricks capabilities such as Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Feature Engineering, Model Serving, Mosaic AI, and vector search to create governed, production-ready solutions.
- Integrate solutions with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, and Azure services as appropriate.
- Implement MLOps and LLMOps practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, model registration, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, responsible AI, and cost optimization.
- Communicate findings and model behavior through clear visualizations, executive-ready narratives, demonstrations, and technical documentation.
- Own assigned workstreams, manage risks and dependencies, and collaborate with client teams to drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.
- Contribute to proposals, reusable accelerators, technical standards, peer reviews, mentoring, and the growth of Lantern’s Databricks and Microsoft AI practices.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 5+ years of experience developing and delivering data science, machine learning, or AI solutions, preferably in consulting or other client-facing environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks for data preparation, distributed model development, experiment tracking, model lifecycle management, and production deployment.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with practical experience in PySpark and common data science frameworks such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
- Strong foundation in statistics, supervised and unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, explainability, and experimental design.
- Experience developing generative AI solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, evaluation, and agentic patterns.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, and the broader Azure data and AI ecosystem.
- Experience with MLOps or LLMOps, CI/CD, model serving and monitoring, data governance, Unity Catalog, security, responsible AI, performance, and cost optimization.
- Strong consulting, communication, visualization, documentation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex models to technical and executive audiences.
Preferred Certifications and Credentials
- Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional or Machine Learning Associate
- Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700) or Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
- Databricks Solutions Architect Champion is highly preferred and considered a strong differentiator
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