Leads the organization’s data science function by hiring, managing, and mentoring data scientists; overseeing advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives; and guiding solutions from ideation through deployment and monitoring. Partners with IT, product, executives, data management teams, and business stakeholders to develop scalable enterprise solutions, solve operational challenges, ensure technical quality, and communicate analytical methods and business impact.
The Lead Data Scientist will play a key role in advancing the analytics and data science capacity of the organization. She/he will hire and manage a team of data scientists who deliver scalable machine learning and advanced analytics solutions across the organization. The new hire will need to work closely with IT, executive, and product teams to integrate these into enterprise-scale solutions. The Lead will work with business stakeholders to ideate and prioritize team initiatives while communicating the methods and impact of the methods.
Responsibilities- Leverage a deep knowledge of data science, data engineering and statistics best practices to ensure that the most applicable solutions are developed.
- Complete advanced analysis of the company’s customer and business data, data.
- Nurture solutions through the whole chain (problem, ideation, data sourcing, experimentation, development, deployment, monitoring).
- Manage and mentor data scientists with in-depth technical oversight to foster their development and a positive, learning team environment while ensuring all work meets the expected level of quality and performance.
- Team management and oversight
- Model Development, deployment and evaluation
- Meeting with and advising stakeholders
- Solving operational challenges with business units which are depended upon
- Sourcing, cleaning and understanding data in collaboration with the data management group
- Perform other duties as assigned
- 10 years of demonstrated business impact through the conception, delivery, and scaling of machine learning and other analytic approaches, including machine learning and big data.
- 2+ years managing and mentoring other data scientists and analysts
- 2 years of consulting or leadership experience as a data scientist
- Excellent verbal and written skills in English
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Experience working on an Agile development team
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