Senior Data Scientist

Scope: 

•Lead the creation and deployment of machine learning models for demand forecasting. 
• Discover opportunities to enhance supply chain efficiency by applying various data science techniques, analyzing customer data, and experimenting to solve real-world business challenges in retail planning. 
• Design and develop data-intensive systems using Python and frameworks like Dask, with an emphasis on performance and scalability. 
• Develop forecasting models to provide insights into expected returns, helping retailers adjust stocking levels, labor, and reordering strategies. 

What you’ll do: 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities 

Consistently delivers solid quality and helps the team, in particular: 

• Is responsible for designing, developing, and testing new algorithms, models, or solving approaches based on machine learning, operation research, or other techniques to solve a Blue Yonder business problem under the supervision of a senior team member or manager. 

• Stays current with scientific libraries and development tools. 

• Continuously improves themselves and the code they produce. 

• Develops quality software according to clean code principles and Blue Yonder standards. 

• Has an understanding of the problem domain the team works on. 

• Is perceived as the expert in a small area within the team and is the go-to person for related implementational and operational issues. 

• Participates in the operation of machine learning services through rolling out changes, resolving incidents, and fulfilling service requests. 

• Clearly communicates impediments and actively seeks support by team members to overcome obstacles. 

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities 

• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily standups, and retrospectives. 

• Demonstrates problem solving and innovation ability. 

• Integrates new models and algorithms into a product solution with limited assistance. 

• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders. 

• Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments. 

• Communicates information in the team. 

• Communicates information internally and assists in external communication with customers and partners. 

• Acts according to company and team visions and requires user stories to adhere to those visions. 

• Writes effective test cases. 

• Has mastered some of Blue Yonder's domain expertise with knowledge acquired from past projects. 

• Actively provides feedback during code reviews. 

• Understands functional and technical requirements of software components. 

• Participates in translating scientific contributions into patents, publications, or conferences. 

• Autonomously pulls issues from the team backlog or supports other team members with their issues as appropriate. 

• Participates in team hiring activities. 

• Understands infrastructure costs of machine learning algorithms embedded in delivered products and services and makes diligent use of provided resources. 

• Identifies inefficient use of computational resources in the machine learning pipeline and uses adequate patterns and technologies to resolve this. 

• Scales machine learning pipeline to meet throughput targets and time windows. 

What we are looking for: 

• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistical Analysis 
• Optimization: Markov Decision Process, dynamic programming, etc. 
• Data Visualization: Streamlit, etc. 
• Python, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts 
• SQL, Snowflake 
• Pandas, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc. 

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