Director, Data Science & Engineering, Finance

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. Lead a small, high-impact team of a data scientist and a data engineer supporting Finance .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $203,000 - $309,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in data science and data engineering, with a strong focus on financial data quality, model development, and stakeholder communication. Proven ability to lead teams, manage projects, and influence business decisions through data-driven insights.

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Data ScienceData EngineeringMachine LearningTeam LeadershipStakeholder Management

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Hard Skills

Data ArchitectureData PipelinesModel DevelopmentData QualityAdvanced AnalyticsAutomationExperimentationMonitoringDocumentationTechnical Debt Management

Soft Skills

CoachingCommunicationGrowth MindsetProblem FramingInfluencing Business Decisions

Industry Keywords

FinanceQuantitative DisciplineOperational SupportKnowledge SharingTechnical Leadership

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a small, high-impact team of a data scientist and a data engineer supporting Finance
Manage, coach, and develop team members through clear expectations, development plans, delegation, and ownership
Set team strategy and priorities across strategic initiatives, recurring operations, model maintenance, knowledge coordination, and technical debt
Provide technical leadership across data science and data engineering, including problem framing, modeling, data architecture, pipelines, testing, monitoring, documentation, and production readiness
Identify and establish standards for AI, machine learning, automation, advanced analytics, experimentation, evaluation, interpretability, human oversight, privacy, and monitoring
Improve financial data quality, lineage, observability, documentation, governance, and reliability
Ensure models and analyses support financial planning, forecasting, driver understanding, and decision-making
Establish operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, roadmaps, reviews, incident response, documentation, knowledge sharing, and stakeholder communication
Communicate data, model, and engineering implications, recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to technical, non-technical, Finance, and executive audiences
Partner with Finance, Engineering, Data, Product, software engineering, and executive stakeholders
Automate recurring tasks, improve service levels, and increase the team’s strategic contribution

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Significant experience applying data science, machine learning, analytics, data engineering, or a combination of these disciplines to business problems
Experience directly managing and developing technical professionals, ideally including both data scientists and data engineers or closely adjacent roles
Strong professional foundation in either data science or data engineering, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across the other discipline
Experience leading a portfolio of projects from problem definition through delivery, adoption, measurement, and ongoing operation
Experience with data quality, data pipelines, analytical datasets, model development or maintenance, experimentation or evaluation, and production or operational support
Demonstrated ability to use data and technology to influence business decisions and deliver measurable impact
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, uncertainty, and trade-offs to Finance and executive audiences
Demonstrated growth mindset: actively seeks feedback, learns new technologies and domains, adapts to changing conditions, and creates an environment where the team does the same
Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment