Data Scientist

Ports North; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ports North is seeking a Data Scientist to partner with business stakeholders and develop data-driven solutions that address complex business challenges. This role blends hands-on model development with strong business acumen to translate needs into analytics, predictive models, and actionable recommendations.

You will collaborate across teams to build personalized recommendations, forecasting, and optimization solutions, while deploying models and monitoring their performance.

Qualifications

• Translate business challenges into analytics requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and data-driven recommendations.
• Experience building predictive models: collaborative filtering, personalization, uplift, forecasting, optimization.
• Hands-on with Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, ADLS, and SQL data warehouses.
• Ability to explain past projects, problems addressed, and outcomes clearly.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify business challenges and develop data science solutions.
• Translate business requirements into analytical frameworks and predictive models.
• Build, test, validate, and optimize machine learning and statistical models.
• Deliver insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Develop personalization, recommendation, forecasting, and optimization solutions.
• Support model deployment and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Spend approximately 70% of time on analytics and business partnering and 30% on model development, testing, and refinement.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

SQL data warehouses

Stakeholder management

Data storytelling

Tools

Databricks

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

SQL data warehouses

Job description

Data Scientist

Position Summary

We are seeking a Data Scientist to partner with business stakeholders and develop data-driven solutions that address complex business challenges. This role combines hands‑on model development with strong business acumen, requiring the ability to translate business needs into actionable analytics, predictive models, and recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify business challenges and develop data science solutions.
• Translate business requirements into analytical frameworks and predictive models.
• Build, test, validate, and optimize machine learning and statistical models.
• Deliver insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Develop personalization, recommendation, forecasting, and optimization solutions.
• Support model deployment and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Spend approximately 70% of time on analytics and business partnering and 30% on model development, testing, and refinement.

Required Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate business challenges into practical data science solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence decisions using data-driven recommendations.
• Experience building predictive models, including:
  • Collaborative filtering and recommendation engines
  • Personalization models
  • Uplift modeling
  • Forecasting
  • Optimization techniques (linear and dynamic programming)
• Hands‑on experience with:
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Spark
  • Databricks
  • Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
  • SQL data warehouses
• Ability to clearly explain past projects, business problems addressed, analytical approach, and measurable outcomes.