Lead Data Scientist

Manning Global, an Internationally renowned staffing and managed services organization specializing in providing staffing solutions for leading corporations in AI, IT & Telecoms, Engineering, Digital Media, Automotive and Renewable Energy is recruiting for Lead Data Scientist on behalf of one of their blue-chip international clients to join their organization in France.

Job Title

Lead Data Scientist

Employment

Full time

Start Date

October/2026

Country

France - Hybrid - Paris

Salary range

80 000.00 EUR - 90 000.00 EUR dependent upon experience

Contact

Bojan Ulemek on

+49 (0) 89 23 88 98 671

Key Responsibilities

• Lead data scientist (advanced data science expertise)
• Hubgrade Smart Apps delivery (Smart‑Membranes, Smart Clarification)
• Digital Factory AI community lead (discovery, sharing best practices, alignment of practices and frameworks, ML Dev and MLOps)
• AI Act referent

Experience/Qualifications

• Experience Senior (8 years or more)
• English and French B2-C1

Hard Skills

• Comprehensive AI knowledge (all areas: mathematical and statistical ML models, deep learning, reinforcement learning, GenAI)
• Cloud architecting
• Data engineering
• MLOps

Soft Skills

• Strong water process understanding (RO, desal, UF, ...)
• Strong communication
• Agility
• Ability to convince
• Ability to work in a multicultural and distributed environment