Lead Data Scientist

The Lead Data Scientist is a crucial team member within American Public Education, Inc’s (APEI) enterprise Data & Analytics team. This role is pivotal for the company’s growth journey with advanced analytics, including machine learning as well as GenAI. It is a senior individual contributor but that doesn’t diminish the technical influence, stakeholder influence, and overall strategic importance of the role. Join us on this journey and our broader mission of powering purpose, potential and prosperity for those in service to others!

As a Lead Data Scientist, you’ll be responsible for applying innovative statistical and machine learning methods in a scientifically rigorous manner to dive into the largest and most complex data across the enterprise to answer the most difficult questions that are foundational to driving real-world value by offering deep insight into every aspect of the business.

You will be responsible for defining technical data science strategy, establishing data science standards, and guiding multi-team initiatives that advance organizational analytics and business insights, data science and ML delivery of scalable solutions, and building new organizational capabilities with broader GenAI capabilities. The role is highly consultative in nature. You also will influence senior business leaders and stakeholders, product, and technology leaders to adopt data‑driven approaches to solving complex business problems, improve business strategy and growth opportunities, as well as increasing efficiency of tactical business operations.

Given the enterprise level nature of this role there is strong opportunity for impact across all value streams throughout the business. Determining and prioritizing the best opportunities for business value is done in partnership with data & analytics product leadership and business stakeholders.

The Lead Data Scientist is responsible for establishing modeling and experimentation guardrails. You will have significant technical influence and will mentor junior and senior individual contributors within the team. You will also put in place machine learning ops solutions that help accelerate delivery across the organization and ensure solutions are safe, scalable, and sustainable.

The Lead Data Scientist had no direct reports but does coach less experienced peer team members.

Online, on campus and in the workplace, we provide higher education and training to our country’s heroes – military service members, veterans, nurses, government employees, and motivated professionals that want to make a difference. American Public Education, Inc. educates service-minded students, ranging from the military, public service, federal agencies, and nursing communities, through American Public University System (APUS), Hondros College of Nursing (HCON), and Rasmussen University.

It is the policy of American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) to afford equal opportunity to all qualified persons.  We treat all qualified individuals equally as to their recruitment, hiring, assignments, advancements, compensation, and all other terms and conditions of employment. American Public Education, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a resident of a state with designated pay transparency requirements and this role is available remotely, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request.  Please send an email to recruiting@apei.com.