Data Scientist Lead

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Inc.; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Inc. is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to advance analytics and data science capacity.

The role will hire and manage a team of data scientists delivering scalable ML and analytics across the organization, partnering with IT, executives, and product teams to deploy enterprise-scale solutions. The Lead will collaborate with business stakeholders to ideate, prioritize initiatives, and communicate the impact of methods, ensuring alignment with company goals and operational

Qualifications

• 10 years of impact delivering ML/analytic solutions.
• 2+ years mentoring data scientists.
• 2 years consulting or leadership in data science.

Responsibilities

• Leverage data science, data engineering, and statistics to build applicable solutions.
• Conduct advanced analysis of customer and business data.
• Guide solutions from problem to deployment and monitoring.
• Mentor data scientists and maintain a high-quality, collaborative team.
• Provide team oversight and strategic direction.
• Develop, deploy, and evaluate ML models.
• Meet with and advise stakeholders on analytics initiatives.
• Address operational challenges with business units.

Skills

Data science leadership

Machine learning

Team mentoring

Agile development

English communication

Job description

Job Description

The Lead Data Scientist will play a key role in advancing the analytics and data science capacity of the organization. She/he will hire and manage a team of data scientists who deliver scalable machine learning and advanced analytics solutions across the organization. The new hire will need to work closely with IT, executive, and product teams to integrate these into enterprise-scale solutions. The Lead will work with business stakeholders to ideate and prioritize team initiatives while communicating the methods and impact of the methods.

Job Description

The Lead Data Scientist will play a key role in advancing the analytics and data science capacity of the organization. She/he will hire and manage a team of data scientists who deliver scalable machine learning and advanced analytics solutions across the organization. The new hire will need to work closely with IT, executive, and product teams to integrate these into enterprise-scale solutions. The Lead will work with business stakeholders to ideate and prioritize team initiatives while communicating the methods and impact of the methods.

Responsibilities

• Leverage a deep knowledge of data science, data engineering and statistics best practices to ensure that the most applicable solutions are developed
• Complete advanced analysis of the company’s customer and business data, data
• Nurture solutions through the whole chain (problem, ideation, data sourcing, experimentation, development, deployment, monitoring)
• Manage and mentor data scientists with in-depth technical oversight to foster their development and a positive, learning team environment while ensuring all work meets the expected level of quality and performance
• Team management and oversight
• Model Development, deployment and evaluation
• Meeting with and advising stakeholders
• Solving operational challenges with business units which are depended upon
• Sourcing, cleaning and understanding data in collaboration with the data management group
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 10 years of demonstrated business impact through the conception, delivery, and scaling of machine learning and other analytic approaches, including machine learning and big data
• 2+ years managing and mentoring other data scientists and analysts
• 2 years of consulting or leadership experience as a data scientist
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Experience working on an Agile development team