Senior Applied Data Scientist

Overview

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, partnering with the world's most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision. We combine deep insight, advanced technology, and close collaboration to help our clients grow, innovate, and deliver measurable value for their customers. dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Unilever and Metro.

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail — one of the world s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data — dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

Job Title: Senior Applied Data Scientist

Job Location: 3825 Edwards Road, #600, Cincinnati, OH 45209 (May work remotely)

WHY I DO MY JOB | Job purpose

To lead and execute projects to distil complex problems into compelling insights, using the best of dunnhumby science and making recommendations that resonate with clients and lead them to action. May telecommute 100% of the time from their home office, consistent with dunnhumby s remote work policy.

WHAT I DO | Key accountabilities

• Build strong relationships with internal contacts & external clients to ensure full understanding of client challenges, growth strategy and agreed measures of success for the project.
• Investigate and implement the most appropriate analytical technique for each project, role modelling the re-use & further development of global solutions or code written by others.
• Deploy data science algorithms and market products on chosen tech stack for efficient and cost-effective delivery.
• Identify opportunities to grow client engagement by proactively solving client s strategic questions, using a mix of products and advanced data science techniques that support executive decision making and calls to action.
• Participate in client meetings as required to present methodology and solutions through effective storytelling techniques.
• Work closely with global products team to provide market feedback for enhancing an existing product offering or augmenting the catalogue with a market-based product that can become global offering.
• Ensure smooth running of your data analytics projects and support junior team members with their projects.
• Lead by example by following dunnhumby Quality Assurance processes, ways of working and coding standards.
• Provide advice and support to colleagues to resolve challenges and support code reviews.

• Bachelor s degree (or foreign educational equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Engineering or related field.
• In addition to the degree, must have at least 4 years of experience in each of the following:
• Software development, utilizing methodologies and tools such as Agile (Scrum Master) and Code Merge, and programming in languages including PySpark, Python, Flask/Dash, C++, and HTML; and
• Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing, including the development, execution, and maintenance of automated and manual testing frameworks.

Within this, must have at least 2 years of experience in each of the following:

• Handling large data volumes with modern data processing tools, e.g. by using Hadoop, Spark, SQL, and Python;
• Data Interpretation and Insight Analysis; performing data interpretation, insight generation, and analytical analysis to support business and technical decision-making;
• Programming experience on any standard data mining and modelling packages such as Python and R; and
• Applying advanced statistical models and machine learning algorithms to develop and implement solutions to complex analytical and business problems.

We ll defy expectations with a comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company, plus personal flexibility, thoughtful perks like flexible working hours and your birthday off.

You ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology…