Lead Data Scientist

N-iX is looking for a Lead Data Scientist. As a Lead Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing data and AI pipelines (including Spark-based and RAG-style workflows), ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability. You’ll also be working on technical discovery and solution assessment: helping the client understand existing AI tooling (currently a RAG-based solution used for document analysis), evaluating scalability, quality, cost, and risks, and advising on future architecture options.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement data pipelines to support AI and ML use cases, including data preparation, feature engineering, and real-time model serving.
• Support and enable RAG-based and NLP use cases, including document ingestion, data preparation, feature extraction, and structured data generation.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to productionize AI/ML solutions and integrate them into reliable data workflows.
• Participate in and lead discovery phases to analyze existing AI solutions, clarify how they work, and identify architectural gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Assess scalability and multilingual support of AI/data solutions (including feasibility, configuration needs, cost, and expected quality).
• Contribute to evaluations of vendor lock-in, platform alternatives, and potential migration paths (e.g., toward Palantir Foundry or other modern data/AI platforms).
• Ensure high standards of data quality, security, governance, and compliance.
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and engineering practices.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, data science, and product/business stakeholders.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in data
• Proficiency in Python and distributed computing concepts.
• Experience designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines for high-volume data.
• Experience supporting AI/ML projects (e.g., enabling model training pipelines, feature engineering, real-time inference, or MLOps workflows).
• Ability to perform technical discovery and solution assessment, including explaining complex systems to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry is a plus, but not required.
• Experience with PySpark and large-scale data processing.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format — remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits