What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Data Scientist position at Robert Half?
Principal Data Scientist (Mixed Modelling, forecasting and retail industry experience)
Robert Half is in search of a Principal Data scientist who will have ownership of identifying/understanding the business opportunity that the company data presents and converting them into actionable, integrated, and advanced analytics/predictive solutions. Data scientist will work on creating data-driven applications that solve business problems for the company's customers.
does not offer sponsorship or C2C
hybrid 3 days onsite
Responsibilities
- Work with the company and partners to identify Business opportunities/problems and deliver actionable insights/predictive solutions that will result in Business value/growth for the company's customers.
- Be at the forefront of research on how machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities are maturing in the industry and what libraries, tools & technologies company needs to be successful in delivering, scaling, and supporting solutions
- Subject matter expert for generating insights from data and machine learning models
- Transform data and insights into intuitive & interactive visualizations
- Work with contractors to deliver products and services for the company's customers.
- Conduct Pilots with the company's customers and measure value
- Transition successful pilots into commercial applications
- Ensure design and implementation of technologies that comply with security standards and application architecture principles (in alignment with platform architects and respective review boards) and that consider state of the art data and analytics concepts
- Review code/solutions developed by team prior to migration to production
What makes you a good fit?
- 8 years of experience building Data science solutions
- Strong algorithm forecasting experience
- Strong experience with mix modules
- Retail experience- Food and Beverage industry experience
- Background in computer science, statistics, mathematics
- Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience with machine learning and natural language processing
- Ability to code in at least one JVM based language (Java, Scala etc.) and at least one scripted language (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience with database design, and SQL
- Ability to balance high customer orientation and service attitude with business priorities
- Analytic thinking, and problem-solving skills
- High energy, with strong will and ambition to learn and work on new things
- Outstanding proven verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing product scope and priorities (demand driven)
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Demonstrates noticeable commitment to foster and preserve a culture of diversity and inclusion by creating environments where people of diverse backgrounds are excited to bring all of who they are and do their best work
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
