Senior Data Scientist

Overview

On Site
USD 65.00 - 90.00 per hour
Full Time

Skills

Strategy Development
Operational Risk
Marketing Operations
Electronic Commerce
Customer Experience
Prototyping
Statistical Models
Product Development
Algorithms
Merchandising
Marketing
Design Patterns
Innovation
Research
Accountability
Functional Requirements
Scalability
Usability
Business Process
Business Cases
Communication
Training
Modeling
Mergers and Acquisitions
Computer Science
Mathematics
Statistics
Economics
Agile
Data Science
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
FOCUS
Python
Databricks
ADS
SAS
R
SQL
PySpark
NumPy
Pandas
scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PyTorch
NLTK
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Microsoft Azure
Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops)
GitHub
Machine Learning (ML)
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Management
Unsupervised Learning
Forecasting
Time Series
Team Leadership
SAFE
Retail
Taxes
Life Insurance
MI
Marketing Intelligence
Collaboration
Partnership
Business Transformation
Law

Job Details

Description
The Data Science team at our clinet leads the strategy, development and integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Data Scientists on the team will drive customer loyalty, digital conversion, and system efficiencies by delivering innovative data driven solutions. Through these solutions, the data scientists drive material business value, mitigating business and operational risk, and significantly impacts the customer experience. This role works directly with product development, merchandising, marketing, operations, ITS, ecommerce, and vendor partners. The position will lead, consult or oversee multiple highly complex data science projects/programs/domains that have significant impacts and require in-depth technical knowledge across multiple specific architecture disciplines such as technology, solution, business, or information/data.
What You'll Be Doing:
Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive in-store and digital merchandising, marketing, customer loyalty, and operational performance
o Partner with product development to define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs for data science projects
o Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Operations and customer insights to understand the journey that will be improved with the data science deliverables
o Build production ready prototypes for, and iteratively develop, end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms, statistical models, machine learning and artificial intelligence functions to meet end user needs
o Partner with product development and technology teams to deploy pipelines into production MLOps environment following Safe Agile methodology
You will architect, design, and lead the development and implementation of machine learning algorithms and models for a data science capability within Digital Services, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain and Operations.
Designs, codes, and implements new industry leading design patterns in data science, to create the convention/technique/practice that teams are accountable to follow.
Foster a culture of innovation by keeping up-to-date with the latest industry trends and research across data science, AI and retail.
Mentors data science teams and promotes a culture of curiosity, accountability, & enthusiasm.
Provides data science strategy to ensure code modernization and industry standard patterns for data science.
Provides guidance to development teams within domain (Commerce, Services or Mobile).
Leads non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability related to data science.
Promotes the implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers.
Proactively identify data driven solutions for strategic cross-functional initiatives, develop and present business cases, and gain stakeholder alignment of solution
Responsible to define, document & follow best practices & approve for ML/AI development
Own communication with data consumers (internal and external) to ensure they understand the data science products, have the proper training, and are following the best practices in application of data science products
Define and analyze Key Performance Indicators to monitor the usage, adoption, health and value of the data products
Identify and scope, in conjunction with IT, the architecture of systems and environment needs to ensure that data science systems can deliver against strategy
Build and maintain relationships with key partners, suppliers and industry associations and continue to advance data science capabilities, knowledge and impact
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required
Skills
Data science, Machine learning, modeling
Top Skills Details
Data science, Machine learning, modeling
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Advanced Degree (MA/MS, PhD) in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field
Certifications: Azure Data Science Associate, Azure AI, Safe Agile
8+ years of relevant data science experience in an applied role - preferable w/in retail, logistics, supply chain or CPG with a focus on NLP and AI
Advanced and hands on experience using: Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, Ads Data Hub, BIQuery, SAS, R, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AutoTS, Prophet, NLTK
Experience with Azure Cloud technologies including Azure DevOps, Azure Synapse, MLOps, GitHub
Solid experience working with large datasets and developing ML/AI systems such as: natural language processing, speech/text/image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning models, forecasting and/or econometric time series models
Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
Technical team leadership experience.
Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred.
Proactive and action oriented
Ability to collaborate with, and present to internal and external partners
Experience in the retail industry or in a production/service environment is preferred.
Experience Level
Entry Level
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $90.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Grand Rapids,MI.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 20, 2025.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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