Lead Data Scientist

Job Title : Data Scientist

Location : 100% Remote

Duration : Long Term Contract

Visa : GC / Citizen

Job Description : Must have :

focus on MS Stack, Azure and GenAI experience.

Preferred : azure certifications and oil and gas experience

Data Scientist

Requirements from our AI Labs team perspective :

Bachelor or Master Degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, data science or another quantitative field

8 years of experience building quantitative models for Bachelor degree or 5 years for Master degree

Experience with data cleaning and validation

Experience using programming languages to manipulate and draw insights from large data sets

Knowledge of Machine learning models (Classification, clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, regression etc.)

Knowledge and real-world business applications of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, distributions, statistical test and proper usage, etc.)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques

Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructures such as GCP and Azure

Strong problem-solving skills

Interpretation of client needs, assessment of requirements, and identification of solutions to nonstandard requests

Desired :

Experience with real-world and messy data

Experience with Energy Industry

Experience with ML work at scale

Experience with Azure or other cloud

AI Software Engineer :

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION

Lead activities relating to designing, building, testing, implementing and maintaining AI solutions, products and processes. Provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by evaluating technology standards, market availability of products, risks and benefits of technology to deliver solutions that meet business / IT needs. Coordinate the tasks of less experienced engineers and collaborate across teams as needed. Independence level : Works independently with minimal guidance. Works closely with scrum masters, project managers, QA, Creative, and UX team members to ensure compliance with project needs.

Your role will be centered on the development and improvement of new and existing features. Additionally, you will be reviewing the code of your peers, advocating for standard development methodologies, and participating in an inclusive, energetic and highly cross-functional team. The role encompasses architect, design, implementation, and testing to ensure building products right and to release them with high quality .

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Engage with business partners to gather information, analyze requirements and deliver practical, efficient and cost-effective solutions that satisfy business needs. Writes product specifications and design documentation for assigned system components.

Design, develop and / or review complex code to ensure AI software solutions meet the requirements of functional and technical specifications. Develop and / or review project technical architecture design and development. Solutions may include but are not limited to the development of various types of applications, web, mobile app, full stack or integrations hosted on premises data centers or in the cloud. Develop automated Unit tests and / or automated UI tests.

Lead engineering team and provide oversight for less experienced engineers; Stay on top of latest technologies and trends. Using error reports, establish priorities and assign bugs to relevant team members for resolution. Support development of version control principles (e.g. Git and working within an agile environment), CI / CD pipeline and various automations.

Ensure all risks and issues that affect the project are captured following set process and are actioned appropriately.

Enhance knowledge of and compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards and policies. Maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within your own discipline or function. Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; lead peer code reviews.

Provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology trends, market availability of products, risks and benefits of technology to meet business / IT needs. Participate in IT architecture review and standards setting. Assist in the development of white papers, conducting presentations as needed to explain why a technology is being recommended by IT.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree (ex : Computer Science or related discipline) and 5 - 8 years of relevant experience (programming technologies) or minimum 9-12 years of relevant combination of education and work experience

2 years of experience in AI systems or software engineering related to implementing ML capabilities or applications, including turning requirements into implementation and evaluating architectural tradeoffs

Demonstrated ability to lead small to medium teams in delivering software solutions

Demonstrates strong software development capabilities coupled with the ability to work under tight deadlines.

Demonstrated strong teamwork skills with self-motivation to achieve success in a rapidly evolving environment.

Excellent communications skills - Able to effectively communicate highly technical information in non-technical terminology (written and verbal).

Strong knowledge of Operating Systems - Windows, Solaris or Linux; or strong knowledge of cloud platforms Azure,

Strong knowledge of software development languages specific to your domain. Examples include Python, Perl, C#, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, .NET, HTML, AngularJS, iOS Swift and / or Objective-C, Android Mobile, Xamarin

Strong knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases - Oracle, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, MySQL, Redis, Splunk

Strong knowledge utilizing AI tools like Microsoft Copilots

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Prior experience in leading software development efforts, designing conceptual data models & system architecture, and user interfaces, is a major plus

Master's degree in CS (or equivalent field) plus 3 years of relevant experiences

Experience with Agile software development and test-driven development

Experience in automated testing including unit testing, UI testing and functional testing

Demonstrated understanding of what makes good software design, a deeper understanding of programming languages, and an ability to solve engineering problems of increasing difficulty. Shows initiative beyond pure implementation.

Experience building highly scalable applications

Experience working with SCRUM, Kanban or other Agile development environments

Self-motivated and able to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines

Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and collaboration skills

Thanks & Regards

Shiva Pagilla

Technical Recruiter

Meritore Technologies, LLC

Shiva@meritore.com

Ph : 703 673 7133 Ext -123