Senior Data Scientist

Scope:

• Lead the creation and deployment of machine learning models for demand forecasting.
• Discover opportunities to enhance supply chain efficiency by applying various data science techniques, analyzing customer data, and experimenting to solve real-world business challenges in retail planning.
• Design and develop data-intensive systems using Python and frameworks like Dask, with an emphasis on performance and scalability.
• Develop forecasting models to provide insights into expected returns, helping retailers adjust stocking levels, labor, and reordering strategies.

What you’ll do:

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Consistently delivers solid quality and helps the team, in particular:

• Is responsible for designing, developing, and testing new algorithms, models, or solving approaches based on machine learning, operation research, or other techniques to solve a Blue Yonder business problem under the supervision of a senior team member or manager.
• Stays current with scientific libraries and development tools.
• Continuously improves themselves and the code they produce.
• Develops quality software according to clean code principles and Blue Yonder standards.
• Has an understanding of the problem domain the team works on.
• Is perceived as the expert in a small area within the team and is the go-to person for related implementational and operational issues.
• Participates in the operation of machine learning services through rolling out changes, resolving incidents, and fulfilling service requests.
• Clearly communicates impediments and actively seeks support by team members to overcome obstacles.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily standups, and retrospectives.
• Demonstrates problem solving and innovation ability.
• Integrates new models and algorithms into a product solution with limited assistance.
• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
• Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments.
• Communicates information in the team.
• Communicates information internally and assists in external communication with customers and partners.
• Acts according to company and team visions and requires user stories to adhere to those visions.
• Writes effective test cases.
• Has mastered some of Blue Yonder's domain expertise with knowledge acquired from past projects.
• Actively provides feedback during code reviews.
• Understands functional and technical requirements of software components.
• Participates in translating scientific contributions into patents, publications, or conferences.
• Autonomously pulls issues from the team backlog or supports other team members with their issues as appropriate.
• Participates in team hiring activities.
• Understands infrastructure costs of machine learning algorithms embedded in delivered products and services and makes diligent use of provided resources.
• Identifies inefficient use of computational resources in the machine learning pipeline and uses adequate patterns and technologies to resolve this.
• Scales machine learning pipeline to meet throughput targets and time windows.

What we are looking for:

• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistical Analysis
• Optimization: Markov Decision Process, dynamic programming, etc.
• Data Visualization: Streamlit, etc.
• Python, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts
• SQL, Snowflake
• Pandas, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc.