Senior Data Analyst - AI Operations & Technology

Johnson Service Group (JSG) is currently looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist - AI Operations & Technology - to work in Nashville, TN. This is a long‑term contract with the largest public energy provider in the U.S.

Hourly Rate Range:
Up to $75.00 p/h (W2) Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship is required Work Site

Location:

Nashville, TN Work Status: (100% Onsite) Duration: 12 Months Proposed start date: 11/10/2026 Proposed end date: 11/07/2028 Residency:
Local or Regional candidates only.

This posting is for an AI Operations & Technology Senior Data Scientist position, which is responsible for scaling and governing enterprise AI by combining data science, MLOps/LLMOps, AI governance, and technology strategy. The role focuses on evaluating and implementing AI tools, designing governance frameworks and guardrails, monitoring AI systems for performance, risk, and compliance, supporting agentic AI and multi‑agent architectures, operations and governance, optimizing AI infrastructure and GPU environments, and helping deploy AI solutions safely and cost‑effectively.

The position also serves as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, providing mentorship, training, and guidance while driving enterprise adoption of generative AI, machine learning, and emerging AI technologies.

Responsible for modeling complex business problems and discovering business insights through the use of data mining techniques, statistical analysis, designing tools/applications, automation, and building high‑quality prediction systems and incorporating them into business processes. The individual will collaborate with the leadership and SMEs from ER business units, key external‑related business partners across the company, and the IT organization to develop technology tools/applications, support digital plans & strategies, identify, and develop proof of concepts.

Ultimately responsible for developing data analytics and visualization products that provide insights across the agency to company external risks and opportunities with stakeholders, including LPC’s, Industrial Customers, Local, State, and Federal Officials, Community Involvement, and Economic Development current and potential customers. Lead efforts for identifying business insights through data structure, data mining, predictive models, and implementing innovative techniques for analysis and gathering business intelligence.

In addition to enabling and informing key decision‑making, the data and models produced will be used in all manners of financial planning, business cases, economic development lead generation, customer and stakeholder analysis, reporting to regulators, and performing studies to optimize interactions in community involvement, and local and federal policy. Research and implement cutting‑edge techniques and tools in machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence to make data analysis more efficient, selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques.

Strong ability to communicate complex data and modeling in a simple, actionable way Ability to visualize data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study Determine requirements that will be used to train and evolve deep learning models and algorithms. Data mining using state‑of‑the‑art methods to identify trends and patterns and generate insights that will optimize operational decisions and inform executive decision‑making.

Extending the company's data with third‑party sources of information when needed. Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems. Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for…