VP, Head of Data Science

Penta Group provides data-driven intelligence solutions that help clients understand stakeholders and develop effective, measurable strategies. The VP, Head of Data Science will lead the Data Science team, oversee execution and development, and deliver reliable production AI and analytics systems using NLP, machine learning, LLMs, and large-scale content processing. The role also involves scaling practical AI adoption across client and advisory workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, coach and develop Penta’s Data Science team, setting priorities, planning capacity and creating a high-trust, high-output delivery culture
• Translate the product roadmap and advisory needs into a focused data science plan, partnering with Product, Advisory, Database, Development and DevOps teams to keep delivery aligned with client outcomes
• Raise the delivery bar for execution, quality, pace, maintainability and cost discipline
• Design, build and review data science solutions across NLP, LLM workflows, machine learning, SQL and large-scale content processing
• Own technical design and architecture for data-science-enabled applications, ensuring solutions are maintainable, supportable, observable and easy to operate
• Productionise delivery with DevOps and MLOps, automating deployment in AWS and puttinge evaluation, monitoring and provider-routing controls in place so AI outputs remain reliable and cost-effective
• Design and implement AI workflows as skills, models and MCP tools in OpenWebUI, with cost control, provider routing and observability built in
• Partner with other departments to turn AI capabilities into everyday workflows, reusable tools and knowledge layers that improve internal productivity and client delivery
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, models and agentic patterns, bringing the useful ones into production quickly and responsibly