Lead Data Scientist

Remote except 1 to 2 days a month in person for meetings

Duties

• Develop algorithms and solutions that include classification, predictive analytics, product recommendation, and pattern recognition (E-Commerce experience)
• Provide input into and/or build datasets to support model development.
• Collaborate with other team members on scoping solutions and project decision points.
• Present on technical topics to peers, leadership, other stakeholders, including non-technical business partners.
• Lead/mentor other data scientists, interns and other technical work teams.
• Make strategic recommendations on data collection, integration and retention requirements, incorporating business requirements and knowledge of best practices.
• Serve as a peer reviewer to other model development teams.
• Work on complex problems of diverse scopes.
• Establish and leverage a network of associates with business domain and data expertise.
• Instill a business oriented mindset that drives the data science & research agenda.
• Build & maintain a relationship with the open source community by creating and contributing to open source data science initiatives.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Lead Data Scientist is required.
• E-Commerce experience is required.
• Python experience is required.
• U.S Citizenship is required due to working with government entities.
• Must have strong project management skills and ability to work independently, manage large and multiple projects while organizing priorities.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills are required.
• Must have knowledge of advance data science methods; examples include prescriptive, cognitive algorithms, big data analytics, commercial and open source data-mining, Python, machine learning, or NLP.
• Master's or phD is preferred.
• Ability to travel on occasion