Principal Data Scientist

Principal Data Scientist at MAXIMUS in Boise, Idaho, United States Job Description Maximus has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Data Scientist to join the USS program, supporting both the enterprise and our government clients. We are seeking an accomplished, hands-on individual contributor and collaborative team player to help drive innovative, secure, and mission focused AI solutions in support of USS objectives. You will be responsible for architecting and optimizing scalable, secure AI systems and integrating AI models in production using MLOps best practices, ensuring systems are resilient, compliant, and efficient. This role requires strong systems thinking, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to manage risk and change in complex environments. Success depends on cross-functional collaboration, strategic communication, and adaptability in fast-paced, evolving technology landscapes. This position will be focused on strategic company-wide initiatives but will also play a role in project delivery and capture solutioning (i.e., leaning in on existing or future projects and providing solutioning to capture new work.) This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Make deep dives into the data, pulling out objective insights for business leaders.
• Initiate, craft, and lead advanced analyses of operational data.
• Provide a strong voice for the importance of data-driven decision making.
• Provide expertise to others in data wrangling and analysis.
• Convert complex data into visually appealing presentations.
• Develop and deploy advanced methods to analyze operational data and derive meaningful, actionable insights for stakeholders and business development partners.
• Understand the importance of automation and look to implement and initiate automated solutions where appropriate.
• Initiate and take the lead on AI/ML initiatives as well as develop AI/ML code for projects.
• Utilize various languages for scripting and write SQL queries. Serve as the primary point of contact for data and analytical usage across multiple projects.
• Guide operational partners on product performance and solution improvement/maturity options.
• Participate in intra-company data-related initiatives as well as help foster and develop relationships throughout the organization.
• Learn new skills in advanced analytics/AI/ML tools, techniques, and languages.
• Mentor more junior data analysts/data scientists as needed.
• Apply strategic approach to lead projects from start to finish;

Job-Specific Essential Dutie Job Posting:

JC291595018

Posted On:

May 09, 2026

Updated On:

May 09, 2026