Sr. Data Scientist

LanceSoft • Raleigh, NC

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

NCDOT is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for a hybrid position based at NCDOT Century Center, Building B, 1020 Birch Ridge Drive, Raleigh, NC 27610. The stated duration is October 19, 2026, through October 18, 2027.

The role partners with business stakeholders and technical teams to improve enterprise data practices, including governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, data asset inventory, and data-flow documentation. It also contributes to consistent, scalable, and reusable data ingestion and transformation approaches using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders, application teams, Database Administration, Data Engineering, Power BI, and project teams to understand data needs and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate discussions to identify authoritative data sources, establish common business definitions, and improve understanding of enterprise data assets.
• Work with project teams to incorporate practical data governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality practices into ongoing initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and reuse data ingestion, transformation, cleansing, and validation patterns across projects using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
• Help develop and maintain an inventory of enterprise data assets, including data owners, stewards, business definitions, and system relationships.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to document how data flows across applications, platforms, and reporting solutions.
• Participate in data architecture and solution design discussions to promote consistency, scalability, and reuse across enterprise data solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed