Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

Own complex analyses and measurement frameworks for a product or business area. Design experiments and statistical/causal models, define and monitor KPIs, quantify impact, and translate findings into product and business recommendations. Partner cross-functionally, mentor junior analysts, and use tools like Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark, and AWS to scale analytics and ensure reproducibility and strong governance.

Lead causal inference and measurement efforts for payments, build and evaluate ML/AI and LLM-based models, optimize fraud mitigation and loss strategies, simulate interventions, and communicate findings to stakeholders to drive product and risk decisions.

Design, build, and productionize complex Bayesian and probabilistic modeling pipelines. Lead methodology and technical direction, collaborate with Product/Data/Engineering, mentor data scientists, communicate results to stakeholders, and apply hierarchical, state-space, time-series, and graphical modeling at scale with strong emphasis on uncertainty and model validation.

Lead research defining fabric's AI shopping roadmap: design and run quantitative studies, build models and benchmarks for AI search (AEO/GEO), run experiments, translate findings into customer-facing insights, and publish research to influence product and go-to-market strategy.

The Analytics Manager analyzes complex datasets, builds models, conducts scenario analyses, and provides strategic recommendations to guide decision-making for leadership.

Lead advanced analytics and ML for partner-facing teams: build end-to-end predictive models (churn, lead scoring, health scores), marketing attribution and mix models, and maintain ML lifecycle standards. Develop agentic workflows and Claude Skills to accelerate work, mentor analytics team, and translate model outputs into actionable insights for Sales, Marketing, and CX.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy time-series forecasting models, collaborate with stakeholders, and operationalize models in cloud environments, focusing on demand planning across various industries.

Develop, validate, and deploy statistical and machine learning models on large structured and unstructured tax datasets to detect fraud, prioritize audits, and score compliance risk. Clean and explore data, perform feature engineering, collaborate with stakeholders, and present technical findings to diverse audiences.

Develop, validate, and deploy predictive and statistical models on large tax and financial datasets to detect fraud and non-compliance. Perform data exploration, feature engineering, and model evaluation using Python/R, SQL, and Databricks. Collaborate with government clients and cross-functional teams, deliver technical and non-technical briefings, and ensure models are explainable, defensible, and maintainable in secure government environments.

Lead end-to-end data science projects: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, operationalize models at scale, run experiments, drive ethics/privacy, partner with customers and teams, and coach cross-disciplinary colleagues.

Lead product and program analytics for Microsoft skilling experiences: design learner journey/funnel analyses, define success metrics, run experiments and causal analyses, build proficiency/competency models, shape telemetry and scalable reporting, recommend content and curriculum improvements, and mentor other data scientists to drive product decisions and learning outcomes.

Design and validate clinical and biomarker data pipelines, perform source-to-target mappings (e.g., EHR to data model), extend ontologies and vocabularies, ensure data quality, evaluate informatics tools, and support data architecture and analysis workflows for a regulatory-grade platform.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy machine learning models, analyze complex datasets, develop analytical solutions, and mentor junior team members in a remote environment.

Lead development of digital twin and simulation models for warehouse operations, deploy AI-driven decision systems, build forecasting and optimization models, validate experiments linking operational metrics to financial impact, and partner with engineers, operations, and external AI/academic partners to scale innovations across fulfillment networks.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze customer data, design experiments, build models, and support data-driven decision-making across product, marketing, and customer experience teams.

The Lead Data Scientist will enhance analytics through predictive modeling and data engineering, focusing on quality, feature generation, and continuous learning.

Develop, implement, and maintain ALM and CCAR/PPNR models for balance sheet forecasting. Build customer behavior, prepayment, and deposit models; monitor performance, perform backtesting and sensitivity analysis; collaborate with Model Risk, Market Risk, Treasury, and validation teams; prepare documentation and materials for governance and senior leadership; support balance sheet optimization and regulatory initiatives.

Lead retention and churn efforts by building survival and lifecycle-state models, classifying churn reasons, creating personalized win-back and next-best-action interventions, optimizing offers/promos, designing uplift experiments, and owning production model lifecycle, monitoring, and MLOps across Product, CRM, Marketing, and Engineering.

The Senior Data Scientist leads data-driven initiatives, optimizing analytics for business decisions, mentoring staff, and ensuring data quality across healthcare projects.

Lead development of foundational marketing ML models (customer intent, next-best-action, marketing mix and attribution). Own model selection, explainability, monitoring, decisioning layers, and translate outputs into actionable recommendations for marketing and product stakeholders while providing technical leadership.

Lead development of Vanta's business analytics function: build scalable product data assets, define measurement frameworks, use AI-assisted analytics, partner with cross-functional teams, and deliver executive-level recommendations to drive product and business decisions.

Design, evaluate, and productionize generative AI/ML solutions (RAG, agents, embeddings, retrieval). Build evaluation frameworks for hallucination detection, benchmark LLMs, optimize prompts/models, create datasets, fine-tune models, and collaborate to deploy and monitor enterprise-scale GenAI systems.

Lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives to improve student retention, engagement, and enrollment. Architect and operate data pipelines, feature stores, and production ML systems; deploy, monitor, and automate models; run experimentation programing and measure business outcomes. Mentor team members and set technical standards across Product, Engineering, and CX.

Lead cross-functional teams to identify and implement revenue-driving strategies. Own revenue optimization, develop quantitative analyses (A/B testing, causal impact), improve data pipelines and tracking, embed AI into workflows, and present insights to leadership to scale and recover revenue.

Design and evaluate predictive and generative models, extract insights from disparate clinical and product data, build and partner on data pipelines, run rigorous evaluations and experiments, and deliver time-sensitive ad hoc analyses to product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders.