Lantern is seeking a hands-on, client-facing Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and operationalize advanced analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions using Azure Databricks and the Microsoft data and AI ecosystem. You will partner with client stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and application teams to translate business problems into secure, governed, scalable, and explainable AI solutions - from experimentation and feature engineering through deployment, monitoring, and measurable adoption.
- 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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