Lead, Data Science

About the Role

As a Lead, Data Science, you will provide personnel, technical, and project leadership within the Federal Law Enforcement territory to a team that drives, identifies, evaluates, designs and implements statistical analyses of gathered open source, proprietary, and customer data to create analytic metrics and tools to support TRSS analysts, customers and existing product offerings. The data science organization is matrixed in that your team will serve a range of different customers and possess a range of different skill sets that apply to individual projects and broader company innovation and engineering mandates. Successful candidates will have demonstrated mentorship and guidance experience in data science, research and development, and other associated interdisciplinary teams.

You will collaborate with customers and internal resources to assist in gathering requirements, contributing to Statements of Work (SOWs) for new sales or POCs, and executing design post sale while getting deeply involved into the delivery, monitoring, and reporting of the proposed solutions and data science team performance. The role will interface with the customer and provide continuity of technical and data-exploration expertise to ensure we are delivering a workable solution that meets the customer requirements and technical capabilities. The position requires a proactive, mission-oriented person who strives to produce the best possible work for the customer.

As a Lead, Data Scientist, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including:

• Individual contribution and innovation relative to your expertise, interest, and organizational need. 
• Participate in team-wide management initiatives around reporting, shared environment development, engineering process initiatives, data cataloging and metadata management, and analysis and implementation of ethical practices in data science.
• Development of metrics and prototypes that can be used to drive business decisions. 
• Providing thought-leadership and dependable execution on diverse projects. 
• Identification of emergent trends and opportunities for future client growth and development.
• Researching and identifying artificial intelligence (AI) methods – including but not limited to machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), GIS, computer vision and image process, and graph construction and analysis.
• Identification of new applications of AI in the context of Thomson Reuters and TRSS content sets.
• Exploring existing data for insights and recommend additional sources of data for improvement.

About You

You are a good fit for the role of Lead, Data Science if you have the following:

• A Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, computer science, mathematics, physical/biological sciences, or GIS), relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 7-10 years of hands-on experience with data cleaning, analysis, programming, and reporting of results to internal or external stakeholders (education can substitute for some years of experience).
• Experience working within Federal Law Enforcement agencies or as a federal government contractor.
• Programming skills in one or more major programming languages (Python/R/Java).
• Excellent understanding of ML, NLP, and statistical methodologies as well as a range of data science and data engineering concepts and practices (visualization, network analysis, entity resolution, development environments and practices).
• Demonstrated personnel leadership (mentorship, support, coaching) or management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into well-structured research/project plans.
• Experience as a technical leader, coordinating and guiding the work of others.
• Experience as a project leader, communicating with stakeholders, scoping and delivering project work.
• U.S. Citizenship essential to comply with government contract/agency or department of Federal Government requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance.

Additional Desired Skills:

• On-prem or cloud-based “big data” analytics, techniques and tools experience (preferred, but not required).
• Previous experience with data modeling and associated technologies (e.g. Neo4j) for graphs (preferred, but not required).
• Experience with search engines, classification algorithms, recommendation systems, and relevance evaluation methodologies (preferred, but not required).

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $134,680 - $250,120. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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