Senior Data Scientist

Business Understanding and Impact:  

Guides and ensures good practice on engagements that employ data science to align with business needs and deliver value. Provides thought leadership and guidance to software engineering and business stakeholders on how to best include artificial intelligence and machine learning in systems development.  

Data Preparation and Understanding:  

Leads data acquisition and understanding efforts for engineering projects using various tools and techniques that support the data science lifecycle.

Modeling and Statistical Analysis:  

Develops and applies ML frameworks and best practices for scalable and ethical solutions.  

Evaluation:  

Oversees review of data analysis and modelling techniques. Ensures selected modelling techniques are appropriate and align with desired project outcomes. Decides on next steps (e.g., deployment, further iterations, new projects).  

Industry and Research Knowledge/Opportunity Identification:  

Provides feedback, drives improvement, and shares knowledge as a data science expert. Contributes to ongoing team learning by bringing relevant and leading edge concepts and approaches to the teams attention.  

Coding and Debugging  

Writes efficient, readable, extensible code from scratch that spans multiple features/solutions. Develops technical expertise in proper modeling, coding, and/or debugging techniques such as locating, isolating, and resolving errors and/or defects. Understands the causes of common defects and uses best practices in preventing them from occurring.  

Business Management  

Collaborates with end customer and Microsoft internal cross-functional stakeholders to understand business needs. Formulates a roadmap of project activity that leads to measurable improvement in business performance metrics over time.  

Customer/Partner Orientation  

Applies a customer-oriented focus by understanding customer needs and perspectives, validating customer perspectives, and focusing on broader customer organization/context. Promotes and ensures customer adoption by delivering model solutions and supporting relationships.