Director of Data Science

ADP is hiring a Director of Data Science dedicated to the implementation of advanced analytics solutions within our HR Outsourcing (HRO) Business Transformation and Analytics organization. This role will play a critical part in accelerating execution, ensuring stronger team alignment, and effectively communicating analytics approach. The Director of Data Science will lead a team focused on building novel ways to solve business problems utilizing cutting edge techniques and tools.

We are looking for a tactical leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, drives execution efficiency, and educates the value of data-driven decision making focusing on the “how and why” of solving problems with analytical solutions. The right candidate will be highly collaborative, working across engineering, BI, and Data Science teams to bridge technical execution with business priorities.

What are we looking for?

A data science professional with a passion and track record for designing analytics and delivery methods to increase accuracy of reporting and advanced analytics in an agile environment to unlock transformational growth. Someone with intellectual curiosity who wakes up excited to work with a team towards excellence and partner with leaders to drive business outcomes and deliver analytical solutions. The ideal candidate is business-minded, customer-centric, team-oriented, self-motivated, a strategic thinker and results-driven.

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 WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Here's what you can expect on a typical day:

Behaviors:

• Lead teams that thrive. You lead with a strong data science vision, fostering a high-performance team that delivers business impact.
• Execution-focused. You are tactical and results-driven, ensuring faster delivery of advanced analytics use cases by prioritizing execution and reducing bottlenecks.
• Business-oriented problem solver. You partner closely with BI and Data Engineering to understand use case requirements and ensure solutions align with business priorities.
• Hands-on leadership. You support your team in overcoming technical challenges, ensuring solutions are scalable, performant, and maintainable.
• Collaboration-first approach. You create strong alignment between engineering, BI, and Data Science, ensuring solutions meet business and technical requirements.
• Advanced Analytics & Predictive Modeling. You bring prior experience to the role of formulating analytical problems, extracting & analyzing data from multiple systems, summarizing critical findings/insights, and developing a compelling visual representation of analyses with actionable recommendations—this will set you up for success on Day 1.
• Limitless Possibilities. You will continue learning and discovering new ways to leverage ADP data to create new products and services and find more insights. You are passionate about learning and applying new techniques within data science that leads to innovations.

Responsibilities/Activities:

• Lead and manage a team of Data Scientists creating repeatable, interpretable, dynamic, and scalable models that are seamlessly incorporated into analytics solutions and deployable into Production for use by the business
• Drive faster execution, prioritizing efficiency while ensuring high-quality analytics solutions.
• Partner with BI, Data Engineering, and business teams to define technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Provide expert guidance as teams hypothesize and engineer features by using business acumen to find ways to combine disparate internal and external data sources to solve problems
• Drive the thinking across the team and ensure all data science plots/outputs clearly communicate appropriate content and levels of details for business audiences
• Share passion for data science with broader enterprise community; identify and develop long-term processes, frameworks, tools, methods, and standards
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with best practices.
• Oversee execution timelines, proactively identifying and addressing bottlenecks.
• Provide technical leadership, supporting data scientists in solving complex data and analytics challenges.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to align technical execution with strategic business priorities.

 TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience as a Lead Data Scientist on a cross functional agile team preferred
• Proficiency in applying data science techniques on large scale data sets. E.g., machine learning to solve clustering, classification, regression, anomaly detection problem statements; and optimization or simulation techniques to solve prescriptive problems
• Proven ability to derive new insights by merging and transforming internal and external data sets in business contexts
• Experience with supporting deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and enhancement of models preferred
• Experience with cloud database technologies (e.g., AWS) and developing solutions on cloud computing services and infrastructure in the data and analytics space

 QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• 10+ years of directly related experience in a data science environment with at least 3 years of direct leadership or managerial experience
• Bachelor’s degree required, MS or PhD preferred in the field of data science, computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or related fields
• Python or R required; SQL preferred

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Preference will be given to candidates who have the following:

• Proven ability to efficiently learn and solve new business domains and problems
• Nice to have experience with popular open-source or commercial optimization libraries (e.g. Gurobi, CPLEX)
• Experience with dashboarding tools (e.g., Dash, Shiny, Tableau, PowerBI)
• Familiarity with MLOps infrastructure (e.g., Databricks, MLflow) and containerization and managing production pipelines and microservices (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:

• Have courageous team collaboration. Courage comes from how associates are willing to have difficult conversations, speak up, be an owner, and challenge one another's ideas to find the best solution.
• Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
• Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
• Act like an owner & doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
• Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
• Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.

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