Senior - Data Science

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders and cross-functional SMEs to deeply understand business context and key business questions

• Create Proof of concepts (POCs) / Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), then guide them through to production deployment and operationalization of projects

• Influence machine learning strategy for Digital programs and projects

• Make solution recommendations that appropriately balance speed to market and analytical soundness

• Explore design options to assess efficiency and impact, develop approaches to improve robustness and rigor

• Develop analytical / modelling solutions using a variety of commercial and open-source tools (e.g., Python, R, TensorFlow)

• Formulate model-based solutions by combining machine learning algorithms with other techniques such as simulations.

• Design, adapt, and visualize solutions based on evolving requirements and communicate them through presentations, scenarios, and stories.

• Create algorithms to extract information from large, multiparametric data sets.

• Deploy algorithms to production to identify actionable insights from large databases.

• Compare results from various methodologies and recommend optimal techniques.

• Design, adapt, and visualize solutions based on evolving requirements and communicate them through presentations, scenarios, and stories.

• Develop and embed automated processes for predictive model validation, deployment, and implementation

• Work on multiple pillars of AI including cognitive engineering, conversational bots, and data science

• Ensure that solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment

• Lead discussions at peer review and use interpersonal skills to positively influence decision making

• Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise in machine learning techniques, tools, and concepts; make impactful contributions to internal discussions on emerging practices

• Facilitate cross-geography sharing of new ideas, learnings, and best-practices

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Engineering at a minimum.

• 3-6 years of work experience as a Data Scientist

• A combination of business focus, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and programming knowledge to be able to quickly cycle hypothesis through the discovery phase of a project

• Advanced skills with statistical/programming software (e.g., R, Python) and data querying languages (e.g., SQL, Hadoop/Hive, Scala)

• Good hands-on skills in both feature engineering and hyperparameter optimization

• Experience producing high-quality code, tests, documentation

• Experience with Microsoft Azure or AWS data management tools such as Azure Data factory, data lake, Azure ML, Synapse, Databricks

• Understanding of descriptive and exploratory statistics, predictive modelling, evaluation metrics, decision trees, machine learning algorithms, optimization & forecasting techniques, and / or deep learning methodologies

• Proficiency in statistical concepts and ML algorithms

• Good knowledge of Agile principles and process

• Ability to lead, manage, build, and deliver customer business results through data scientists or professional services team

• Ability to share ideas in a compelling manner, to clearly summarize and communicate data analysis assumptions and results

• Self-motivated and a proactive problem solver who can work independently and in teams