Senior Data Scientist, Online

About the role

The Home Depot is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead data science initiatives that drive business profitability, greater efficiencies and a better customer experience. The role helps build the company's advanced analytics infrastructure and acts as a lead on data science projects, presenting insights and recommendations to leaders and business partners. It sits in the Store Support Center.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop algorithms and models on large datasets, choose and interpret advanced analytical methods, and communicate insights to technical and non-technical leaders
• Work with project teams and business partners to set goals, prioritize work, distribute workload and mentor junior colleagues
• Support recruiting and hiring for the team
• Build trust with internal customers and cross-functional teams, and educate them on advanced analytics
• Explore new developments in data science, document reusable code and algorithms, and define best practices for model production

Required profile

• Age 18 or older and legally permitted to work in the United States
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a field related to the job
• Preferred: PhD in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc.), 6+ years of experience in business intelligence and analytics, and 5 years of experience

Required skills

• Preferred: Python, Google BigQuery or SQL, Tableau, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Statistical techniques, predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Proficiency in prescriptive modeling such as optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP