Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing, human capital consulting, employment law compliance and employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans and workers’ compensation insurance.

TriNet has a nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If you’re passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market, come join us as we power our clients’ business success with extraordinary HR.

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A Brief Overview
The Senior Data Scientist has an intimate knowledge of business objectives and works with leadership to provide data science solutions that apply to cross functional teams roadmap. They will develop and code software programs, algorithms, and automated processes to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources. Incumbents are tasked with identifying meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources; and interpreting and communicating insights and findings from analysis and experiments to product, service, and business managers. The senior data scientist will mentor team members to cultivate the skills and knowledge necessary to contribute to business needs and create a data driven culture. This role will prepare and deliver results to stakeholders and facilitate the deployment of models to production systems.

Locations
United States

What you will do

• Impact and influence: Demonstrates persistence in the face of roadblocks, dispatching them efficiently and pulling in others to help as necessary, sooner rather than later. Demonstrates the initiative to fix issues before being explicitly assigned to them (this assumes such a culture is fostered on the squad.) Delivers increasingly complex product features that (they believe) are well-baked and bug-free. Has end-to-end responsibility on product building-blocks, or entire products, that are increasingly complex over time; contributes to common code (again, this assumes a sufficient culture on the squad to support these.) Identifies & proactively tackles technical debt before it grows to be "too large" i.e. into debt that requires significant upfront work to resolve. Scopes & stages work into well-defined milestones to avoid monolithic deliverable; is constantly working to make accurate timeline estimates and deliver to those estimates. Owns technical testing, measuring performance for their products, and is developing a reputation for having drama-free launches.
• Leadership and teamwork: Seeks and uses empirical evidence through proof of concepts / tests / external research when identifying and articulating problems / risks of their own work or others. Contributes consistently to regular Lunch & Learns. Provides mentorship to junior engineers and teammates via pairing, design and code reviews. Demonstrates an understanding of the business impact and business units impacted by the work completed on their squad and uses that understanding to drive requirements that take into account all parties' needs. Consistently exhibits empathy for the user of the software being built and uses that as a guide for decision-making. Takes initiative to identify and solve high-impact ("important") problems, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues. Helps set the direction at the project / service level and consistently influences decision-making at the squad level. Contributes to the culture of learning at the team level by providing help when asked.
• Communication: Regularly and effectively communicates technical decisions through design docs, tech talks, and internal team wiki. Practices communicating across functional groups to become better at effective cross-group communication, ultimately enabling the ability to work well with individuals and teams across different groups and with different incentive structures (e.g. product management, stakeholders, etc). Proactively identifies and vocalizes challenges with requi