Data Scientist - Decision Science & Automation

About the role

The Home Depot is hiring a Data Scientist for its decision science and automation team. The Data Scientist supports data science initiatives that drive business profitability, greater efficiencies and a better customer experience, applying advanced analytics to large datasets to extract business insights and solve problems. The role presents recommendations to non-technical audiences and works closely with business partners and cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop algorithms and models on large datasets to create business insights, and act as technical lead on analytics projects
• Communicate insights and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical leaders and partners, and prepare reports and presentations
• Build trust with internal customers and cross-functional teams, and define project goals with partners
• Keep up with developments in data science, and build a documented library of reusable algorithms

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: Master's in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics) or equivalent experience
• Preferred: 4+ years in business intelligence and analytics, and 3 years of work experience

Required skills

• Preferred: Python, Google BigQuery or SQL, and Tableau
• Preferred: statistical techniques, predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Preferred: prescriptive modeling such as optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP