Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead teams applying advanced data science and machine learning to large-scale claims, clinical, and member data to generate actionable insights that reduce cost of care and improve population health. Manage client relationships, mentor staff, ensure project delivery and quality, develop payer-focused analytics products, present findings to senior stakeholders, and promote continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

Lead advanced analytics and ML efforts to extract insights from large-scale historical data, design features and data representations for models and LLM/agentic systems, partner with product and engineering to build data pipelines and prototypes, evaluate AI workflows, and drive innovation through experiments and empirical analysis to inform product strategy.

Lead design and delivery of scalable ML systems across the full lifecycle for recommendations, demand forecasting, targeting, and personalization. Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to set architecture, metrics, and production best practices; mentor data scientists; lead experimentation and deploy/monitor models using cloud and MLOps tooling.

Lead complex modeling projects combining deep learning, LLMs, and traditional techniques. Prototype, deploy, and monitor production models, mentor data scientists, collaborate with engineering/product, and translate results into business impact for insurance customers.

Lead end-to-end pricing experimentation and strategy for consumer and business products. Design and analyze A/B tests, build pricing models and production-grade data pipelines, partner cross-functionally, and present actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Analyze billing patterns, healthcare claims, and complex datasets to identify anomalies, audit data integrity, and support Trust and Safety initiatives. Build risk-monitoring pipelines and compliance dashboards using SQL, Python/R, and visualization tools. Translate technical findings into risk assessments for legal, compliance, and executive partners while developing safeguards to protect patients, regulatory standing, and platform operations.

Lead research and engineering of production-grade LLM/GenAI systems for cybersecurity: design models and architectures, drive data labeling and evaluation, collaborate with product and engineering to deploy scalable solutions, mentor data scientists, set technical strategy, and advance AI safety, red-teaming, and applied ML innovations for detection and operational use.

As a Staff Data Scientist at SentiLink, you will develop fraud detection models, conduct analyses, collaborate across teams, and drive the development of financial risk products.

Lead product analytics efforts by designing and evaluating experiments, building dashboards, and producing statistical insights. Partner with product, design, and engineering to measure product success, identify optimization opportunities, and embed ML-driven personalization into the product.

Lead product analytics to inform strategy and optimize user experience: translate business questions into analysis, build reliable analytics infrastructure, run A/B tests and ML/statistical analyses, track funnels and cohorts, support 0-to-1 product launches, and communicate actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze data to drive product strategy, optimize performance, and support product launches, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, perform detailed analyses, and work closely with teams to drive product innovation and business outcomes.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

Analyze and characterize conversational audio data, identify underrepresented areas, and build active-learning and human-in-the-loop workflows. Develop representative benchmarks, automate model adaptation, and create reusable data analysis and scoring systems. Partner with research, engineering, and data teams to run experiments, improve models, organize data, and translate complex findings into measurable product improvements.

Lead high-impact modeling initiatives using deep learning, LLMs, and traditional methods. Prototype, deploy, and monitor hybrid models on large insurance datasets, drive MLOps standards, and communicate results to nontechnical stakeholders to realize business impact.

Lead end-to-end development and deployment of predictive and hybrid deep learning/LLM models for insurance use cases. Prototype, validate, and productionize models using modern ML frameworks and MLOps, collaborate with product and engineering, and communicate technical results to stakeholders to drive measurable business impact.

Lead and deliver productionized ML solutions across audience, marketing, pharma direct, and employer analytics. Design segmentation, propensity, attribution, and identity models; apply causal inference and experimentation; operationalize models with MLOps; evaluate generative AI/LLM use cases; set technical roadmap and mentor data scientists to drive measurable business impact.

The Senior Data Scientist will build frameworks for data-driven decision making, develop predictive models, ensure data quality, and enhance customer experiences through analytics and operational insights.

Build and optimize machine learning models, analyze structured and unstructured data, perform feature engineering and evaluation, and identify insights for business decisions. Create dashboards and data visualizations, communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, improve data quality, and maintain data integrity and confidentiality in regulated healthcare-related environments.

Build and deploy production-grade LLM applications, AI agents, models, and scalable RAG pipelines for investment and business workflows. Architect secure MCP integrations with enterprise systems, establish MLOps and LLMOps practices, optimize model performance and latency, and develop evaluation, monitoring, governance, and rollback processes. Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to provide secure, governed access to organizational data.

Lead evaluation and data strategy for advanced AI, vision, and perception systems. Define metrics, build evaluation frameworks, audit artifacts, prioritize fixes, and translate model behavior into product decisions and data-improvement loops to ensure production readiness and downstream usefulness.

Provide analytics and data-driven insights for CoverMyMeds clients, prioritize work that drives commercial outcomes, build relationships with account teams, apply statistical and predictive methods, monitor portfolio health, deliver client-facing visuals and recommendations, support complex requests and escalations, and inform strategic decisions across product, analytics, and operations.

Own analysis and algorithmic solutions for ads delivery; train, deploy, and scale ML/optimization models into production; build logging, monitoring, and lineage; improve data pipelines; mentor data scientists; use agentic AI tools daily; collaborate with engineers to integrate models into ads systems and handle on-call production incidents.

Develop frameworks and tooling to estimate long-term impacts of product changes from short-term experiment outcomes. Build causal inference methods (experimental, econometric, quasi-experimental), evaluate heterogeneous treatment effects, own major estimation problems, and communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive better long-term decisions.

Lead end-to-end data science for a priority vertical (Insurance), building, validating, and deploying ML models that drive ROAS and lead quality. Partner with stakeholders and ML engineering to monitor live performance, iterate models, and identify new modeling opportunities to improve revenue and media efficiency.