Location: São Paulo, Brasil (São Paulo State). Position number: 45103.
Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for a Principal Data Scientist. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities.
Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities to progress. Our hybrid work environment balances in‑office and remote work.
Essential Functions
- Design, create, test and implement complex modeling and algorithmic systems that drive value throughout the organization.
- Lead large‑scale data science initiatives from proof‑of‑concept to production.
- Design and structure reusable codebases using data science best practices to support sustainability of our technical portfolio.
- Collab with stakeholders to understand business problems and implement scalable and sustainable solutions.
- Work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts and Data Engineers to build and deliver valuable analytical solutions.
- Communicate and document the design, functioning and output of analytical models/solutions to a variety of audiences.
- Ensure timely deliverables and testing for regular maintenance of solutions over time.
- Communicate data insights and value articulation to stakeholders.
- Serve as a technical lead and point of contact for product managers, business partners and collaborators.
- Contribute to a culture of learning through technical mentoring and tool sharing.
Minimum Requirements
- Post‑graduate degree in a STEM field or bachelor’s degree with a combination of years of experience in data science, computer science, IT or a related field.
- Strong foundations in mathematics, analytics and computer science, knowledge of machine learning methods and statistical models, advanced data science programming.
- At least 5 years of hands‑on experience; fluency in Python and SQL.
- Comfortable with scripting languages such as Bash.
- Experience writing reusable and maintainable code with version control, and the ability to transform a project from proof‑of‑concept to production.
- Experience building and deploying resilient data and modeling pipelines in a cloud environment.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS or Azure); preference for GCP services including Compute Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Run and Cloud Composer.
- Creative and self‑motivated with a drive to learn new skills and solve challenging problems.
- Team player in a global environment, consistently building better solutions in technical quality and business impact.
Preferred Qualifications
- Good understanding of software development best practices and ability to apply them to machine learning projects, including unit tests and CI/CD integration.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform.
- Experience implementing Kubernetes and Docker (or similar container engine) solutions.
- Obtained Google Cloud Professional certifications such as MLE, Data Engineer, or DevOps Engineer.
- Experience working with customer analytics and pricing optimization; domain knowledge in global agribusiness is a plus.