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Senior Data Scientist / Forward Deployed Engineer (No Sponsorship Available/Cannot Support C2C)

Locations: Phoenix, AZ

Overview

Join a newly formed, executive-sponsored AI Transformation team focused on bringing AI solutions from concept to production across a large enterprise environment. This team operates at the intersection of business and technology, partnering directly with stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions, and deliver AI-powered applications that drive measurable business outcomes.

This is an opportunity to work on greenfield AI initiatives, influence the future direction of enterprise AI adoption, and help establish best practices for how AI is implemented at scale.

What You'll Do

• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand challenges and identify AI-driven solutions.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into technical architectures and production-ready applications.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI agents, copilots, and intelligent automation solutions.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions to validate business value.
• Build applications leveraging LLMs, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, and modern AI tooling.
• Drive projects from ideation through deployment and adoption.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and program leadership to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Advise stakeholders on AI capabilities, limitations, and implementation strategies.
• Help define standards and best practices for enterprise AI development.

Must Haves:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI applications in production.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agentic workflows, prompt/context engineering, and modern AI architectures (in an enterprise capacity)
• Experience developing AI agents from scratch and integrating external tools, APIs, and services.
• Experience with agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, MCPs, skills, harnesses, or similar AI ecosystems.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Ability to decompose complex business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with coding agents, AI-assisted software development, or SDLC automation.
• Background in consulting, solution engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical leadership roles
• Exposure to model routing, RAG architectures, vector databases, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience delivering customer-facing or business-facing AI solutions.
• Prior experience working closely with product teams.
• Alternate Profile: AI/ML Data Scientist

Additional Qualifications

• Expertise in machine learning, predictive modeling, and statistical analysis.
• Experience designing and deploying anomaly detection systems.
• Strong Background in experimentation, model evaluation, and analytics.
• Ability to identify opportunities where traditional ML approaches are more effective than agent-based solutions.
• Experience partnering with engineers to operationalize AI/ML solutions in production environments.

What Success Looks Like

• Converts complex business challenges into production-ready AI solutions.
• Delivers measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrates strong product thinking and customer empathy.
• Successfully balances rapid experimentation with scalable engineering practices.
• Becomes a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders.

Why Join?

You'll be among the first members of a high-visibility AI Transformation organization tasked with driving enterprise-wide AI adoption. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse, impactful initiatives, influence how AI is implemented across an organization, and help shape the future of AI-powered business operations.

Top Skills Details

Python, Artificial intelligence

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Product Mindset: Thinking beyond model accuracy, Focusing on business impact and user workflows

Stakeholder Communication: Working directly with business teams, Explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Experience Level

Expert Level

This is a Contract position based out of Phoenix, Arizona.

The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $85.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a hybrid position in Phoenix,Arizona.

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 4, 2026.

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.