[Hiring] Data Scientist III @CSI

Role Description

The Data Scientist III is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading complex machine learning and advanced analytics workstreams that support customer intelligence, behavioral prediction, personalized engagement, and measurable product and client outcomes. This role owns broader predictive modeling domains end-to-end, provides technical guidance to other contributors, and partners closely with product, engineering, MLOps, and data teams to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions.

• Lead the design, development, validation, and deployment of production-grade machine learning models for customer segmentation, propensity scoring, behavioral prediction, and related customer intelligence use cases.
• Own the full model lifecycle for complex workstreams, including problem framing, data exploration, feature engineering, training, validation, deployment readiness, monitoring, retraining, and performance interpretation.
• Define evaluation frameworks and success metrics that connect model performance to client, product, and business outcomes.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape modeling roadmaps, clarify trade-offs, and prioritize high-impact analytical solutions.
• Provide mentorship, code review, and technical guidance to data scientists, analysts, and adjacent technical partners.
• Establish and promote best practices for model documentation, reproducibility, explainability, fairness, governance, and compliance review.
• Collaborate with MLOps, engineering, and data platform teams to ensure scalable, reliable, and maintainable model deployment patterns.
• Communicate complex modeling concepts, analytical findings, and business implications clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership and clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 5–8+ years of progressive experience in applied machine learning, data science, or advanced analytics.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering impact in production environments.
• Expert proficiency in Python, including libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost, or LightGBM, and SQL.
• Proven experience developing and deploying machine learning solutions end-to-end, including problem framing, validation, monitoring, lifecycle management, and stakeholder adoption.
• Strong foundation in statistical modeling, supervised and unsupervised learning, customer analytics, experimental design, A/B testing, model validation frameworks, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, modern data ecosystems, Snowflake, MLOps tooling, and production deployment patterns.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to engage with leadership and clients.

Requirements

• Experience in financial services, fintech, or other regulated environments is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with eligibility for incentive awards based on individual and business performance.
• Comprehensive range of benefits.

Company Description

As a forward-thinking software provider, Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) helps community and regional financial institutions solve their customers’ needs through open and flexible technologies. In addition to its award-winning core banking platform, these include the latest in lending, digital banking, payments, financial crime prevention, and cybersecurity. Building on its 60-year track record of personalized service, CSI is shaping the future of banking and empowering its customers to rival their competition.