Client-Facing Principal Data Scientist

SAP; United States; Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 374,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP in New York City is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy advanced ML solutions within customer environments. You will translate strategic challenges into rigorous analytical models and deliver enterprise-grade outcomes that drive measurable business value.

Join an embedded, client-facing team, collaborating across functions to ensure data quality, governance, and scalable insights, while advancing AI in real-world business processes at SAP.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data science and ML experience, Python and SQL proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost.
• Strong statistics, experimental design, and causal inference knowledge.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical problems.
• Experience delivering production analytics and ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and apply advanced ML methods in customer environments.
• Translate strategic challenges into rigorous analytical solutions.
• Work with customers to deliver scalable enterprise-grade outcomes.
• Define success metrics and translate results into recommendations.
• Lead complex analytical workstreams with milestones and risks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to communicate insights.

Skills

Python

SQL

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

XGBoost

Statistics

Experimentation

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP HANA Cloud

AI Core

AI Launchpad

Job description

SAP in New York City is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy advanced ML solutions within customer environments. You will translate strategic challenges into rigorous analytical models and deliver enterprise-grade outcomes that drive measurable business value.

Join an embedded, client-facing team, collaborating across functions to ensure data quality, governance, and scalable insights, while advancing AI in real-world business processes at SAP.